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Date: | Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:35:09 GMT |
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Back on July 3rd Sally Shelton wrote a thoughtful piece
on NOT putting artifacts in plastic bags. Ms. Shelton
attributed this to a course on "anoxic enclosures and
microenvironments" she'd recently taken.
We have a dim institutional memory of a conservator
telling us that sealing archeologically derived clam
shell into air tight plastic bags promoted "Bight's
Disease," a rather scaly, lichen-like growth. So we
punched holes in all the plastic bags which held shell
where the shell wasn't so small as to fall out of the
hole.
Does anyone out there know anything about Bight's
Disease, shell, and bags? A reference I could read, an
expert I could contact, anything would be appreciated.
TIA Chris Dill
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