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Post-conservation Carbonate Blooms on a Bronze Gun from the Alamo (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Conservation of Archaeological Materials from Submerged Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2008, a Spanish-made 4pdr bronze cannon thought to have been used to defend the Alamo in 1836 was donated to the Alamo Museum, which sent it to the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University for conservation prior to display. After 12 years, it began to exhibit new corrosion, and was sent back to...