Megafaunal Support Versus Adulteration
Nigel Larkin BA MSc
Suppliers of materials:
Acetone: BDH Ltd, Broom Road, Poole, BH12 4NN, United
Kingdom. Tel 01202 669700. Suppliers of industrial chemicals.
Airbrasive powders including glass beads: Production Equipment
Sales Ltd, Unit 2/7 Horstead Square, Belbrook Industrial Estate,
Uckfield, East Sussex. TN22 1QL. Tel 01825 766644.
Correx: Tony Britain Packaging, Tel: 01482 227400
Jesmonite Acrylic Resin: Canonbury Artshop, 266, Upper Street,
Islington, London, NR1 2UG. Tel 0207 72264652.
Paraloid B72 (tubes of ready made adhesive, or raw granules):
Conservation Resources (UK) Ltd, Unit 1 Pony Road, Horspath Industrial
Estate, Cowley, Oxfordshire. OX4 2RD. Tel 01865 747755. Suppliers of
conservation materials.
Plastazote: Polyformes Ltd, Cherry Court Way, Stanbridge Road,
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 6UH.
Reading on this subject
Ashwin T and Stuart A., 1996; The West Runton Elephant. Current Archaeology 149, 164-168.Larkin, N., Makridou, E. and Comerford, G., 1998; Plastic containers: a comparison. The Conservator, 22.
Larkin, N. and Makridou, E., 1999; Comparing gap-fillers used in conserving sub-fossil material. The Geological Curator 7 (2), 81-90.
Larkin, N., Alexander, J., and Lewis, M., 2000; Using experimental studies of recent faecal material to examine hyaena coprolites from the West Runton Freshwater Bed, Norfolk, England. Journal of Archaeological Science 27, 19-31.
Larkin, N., Makridou, E. and Blades, N., 2000; Analysis of volatile organic compounds in plastic containers used for museum storage. The Conservator, 24.
Stuart, A.J., 1991; An elephant skeleton from the West Runton Freshwater Bed (Early Middle Pleistocene:Cromerian Temperate Stage) Bulletin of the Geological Society of Norfolk 41, 75-90.
Turner -Walker, Gordon., 1998; The West Runton Fossil Elephant: a pre-conservation evaluation of its condition, chemistry and burial environment. The Conservator, 22.
"The West Runton Elephant Discovery and Excavation", Norfolk Museums Service booklet, 1997.
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