The Icon Archaeology Group will hold their annual AGM alongside a half day online conference, featuring talks from archaeological conservators of varied career stages on the theme of on-site lifting of archaeology. The theme compliments the much-anticipated newest edition of the First Aid for Finds handbook expected later this year, which will also be delivered as an online publication for the first time, and the conference will also feature dedicated short slots for flash presentations from early career and student conservators on a project or theme they have recently worked on.
Programme:
13:30 2024 group meeting (AGM)
Agenda:
- Welcome
- Opening address from AG Chair, Luisa Duarte
- Proposed changes to AGM format
- New committee members
- Tasters for upcoming events
- Updates from committee members:
o Icon AG’s response to Historic England Future For Archaeological Archives Programme (FAAP)
o First Aid For Finds new edition
On site case study: Olivia O’Dwyer, Eleanor Smith, Zeynep Ada Çelik & Dilan Erdim Lifting an Iron Age copper alloy bowl: reflections on the in-progress excavation of an Iron Age room at Kaman-Kalehöyük
14:15 Session one
Helena Jaeschke ACR, FIIC Keeping it together
Lucie Altenburg Up in arms: the lifting of presumed warrior displays in a cemetery from the Tène
Laura Ratcliffe Warren Block lifting Bronze Age ceramic vessels on the A30 highways improvement works, Cornwall 2021- 22: The trowel edge between archaeology and conservation
Q&A / break
15:40 Session two
Riva Boutylkova Lifting Roman mosaic floors in Southwark
Ruben With Different block lifting methods used at the Gjellestad ship burial, facilitating documentation by µCT scanning, consolidation and reassembly
Ella Andrews Lifting wall painting fragments at the Middle Kingdom Theban Project at the Theban Necropolis, Egypt
Kate McEnroe & Christina Altland Working on Broken Glass: Lifting an 18th c. Casement Window
Student flash presentation Jesse Lundervold (UCL) & Rocio Gonzalez-Oyarce (Durham)
