Site conservation techniques

A chapter of the digital monograph: Site conservation

NOTE: on this topic, cf. also the dedicated topical book on “CONSERVATION”.

Depending on the conditions of the wall, I distinguish three options as to whether or not to use protective localized shelters.

1. Extant, damaged walls. – Wherever the walls are extant, they are protected with a localized shelter, except for partition walls without mudbricks.
        At first, I placed the localized shelter structures everywhere, i. e., including the partition walls without mudbricks and even sections where there were no physical remnants of walls to be protected. However, the shelters would quickly be damaged by the winds that had an easy play against the vertical panels because the shelters were hollow on the inside, the wall being either missing or very low. As a result, I adopted two alternative solutions.
2. Partition walls without mudbricks. – If only the stone substructure (or foundation) is extant, and if the wall is a partition wall, then I omitted the shelter protection, and marked instead the outline of the wall with white rods.
3. No wall extant. – In this case, I reconstructed the wall, and marked it with a painted hatched pattern to highlight the fact that it was not an original structure.

The distinction between the three approaches is illustrated by the photo below (taken in 2009), of sector A of the Palace of Tupkish.

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