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Ancient urns put right

Submitted by PaulM on Sunday, 16 February 2003  Page Views: 581

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A National Lottery Heritage Fund sponsored project to restore prehistoric urns dug up from barrows in Wiltshire is over half way through reports the BBC.

The five year project to restore 105 pots (some of which date back 4,500 years and are highly decorated) involves painstakingly removing cement (naively applied to try to preserve the pottery) from the pots which were excavated in the 19th century and some of the completed urns have now gone on display at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes.

In the last two-and-a-half years, staff at Wiltshire County Council's conservation laboratory in Salisbury have restored 60 of the 105 pots.

They have been put back on display at the museum, together with illustrations charting the progress of the conservation.

For the full story see the BBC.
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