Acknowledgements

This course was written by Victoria Pearson.

Course image: Gary Bembridge [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary, used under Licence and not subject to Creative Commons licencing. See terms and conditions.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources:

Figures 2, 3 and 5: Wessex Archaeology, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0);

Figure 4: Marine Sonic Technology, Ltd;

Figure 8: Roosevelt Almado;

Figure 9a: Finney, R.W. and Jones, A.M. (1993) 'Direct Analysis of wood preservatives in ancient oak from the Mary Rose by laser microprobe mass spectrometry', Studies in Conservation, vol. 38, 1993. International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works;

Figure 9b and 9c: Blanchette, R.A. (2000) 'A review of microbial deterioration found in archaeological wood from different environments', International Biodeterioration and Biodegredation, vol. 46. Elsevier Science Ltd;

Figure 10: Wetherall, K. (2008) 'Sulfur and iron speciation in recently recovered timbers of the Mary Rose revealed via X-ray absorption spectroscopy', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 35(5). Elsevier BV.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders. If any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Don't miss out:

If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses