North America (Texas) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly L Breyfogle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Materials", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Last year, a project was undertaken to determine the best option for treating a bronze cannon on display at the Alamo. The cannon was conserved by the Conservation Research Laboratory, but post-conservation it began precipitating a white powder determined to be a mixture of sodium carbonate-based compounds. The...