Leather wet and dry : current treatments in the conservation of waterlogged and desiccated archaeological leather / edited by Barbara Wills.

London : Archetype Publications, 2001.

xv, 77 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"A joint meeting of the Archaeological Leather Group and the Department of Conservation of the British Museum, 23 March, 1998."

A method of assessing the condition and treatment of waterlogged leather: a summary of work at the Museum of London / Kirsten Suenson-Taylor -- Water-degraded archaeological leather: an overview of treatments used at Vitenskapsmuseum (Trondheim) / Elizabeth E. Peacock -- Experimental work on the mineral content of archaeological leather / Ida Hovmand and Jennifer Jones -- Practical approaches in the treatment of archaeological leather / Marquita Volken -- Treatments of archaeological leather in France / Veronique Montembault -- Excavating desiccated leather: conservation problems on site and after / Barbara Wills -- Leather shrouds - a rare find in Jordan / Pippa Cruikshank -- The survival of buried leather in experimental earthworks / Glynis Edwards.

Includes bibliographical references.