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Re: Excavation equipment

Subject: Re: Excavation equipment
From: "George"
Date: 16 Dec 2006 11:19:52 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Michael Kuettner wrote:

> "Peter Alaca" <p.alaca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:45820518$0$20618$dbd4d001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <snip>
>
> > Some years ago we excavated a Roman horse from
> > very havy clay. Quite a job.
> > Afterwards it must be cleaned of course, before it
> > could be prepared. That was almost worse than the
> > digging. It must be done very carefully, because most
> > of the bone was very soft. Very frustrating because many
> > bones crumbled in your hand or broke when you broke a
> > lump of clay. The skul looked nice, but in the end the
> > skeleton was in a too bad condition for proper preparing.
> > After all that work! That do I call the hard way.
> >
> Why didn't you use hot steam ? A custom hot steam cleaner with
> a specially made nozzle (for thin jets of steam) should have worked well.
>
> That method would have avoided the braking and crumbling, and I can't
> think of any negative effects.

We used to have the benefit of a dentists water jet.
Very adjustable stream


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