These
works have recently been added to the bibliography in the relevant sections:
*added
March 2010*
Roman
(authors A to G)
Driel-Murray,
C. van, (2009a) ‘Leer vondsten Leiden Roomburg 1995-1997’ in M. Polak
& T. de Groot (eds) Vondsten langs de Limes. Rapportage
Archeologische Monumentenzorg 167, Amersfoort, 19-28. (Roman tents and decorated
shields from the fort at Roomburg)
Driel-Murray,
C. van, (2009b) ‘Leerresten uit Geldermalsen-Hondsgemet: voddenhandel?’ in J.
van Renswoude & J. van Kerckhove (eds)
Opgravingen in Geldermalsen-Hondsgemet. Een inheemse nederzetting uit
de Late IJzertijd en Romeinse tijd, ACVU-HBS, Amsterdam, 854-6 (secondhand
Roman military leather used in a native rural settlement)
Driel-Murray,
C. van, (2009c) ‘Leervondsten’ in Vanhoutte S., et al. ‘De dubbele waterput uit het laat-Romeinse
castellum van Oudenburg (West-Vlaanderen): tafonomie, chronologie en
interpretatie’, Relicta. Archeologie, Monumenten- en Landschapsonderzoek in
Vlaanderen 5, 100-101 (overview of later Roman finds from a well)
Driel-Murray, C. van, (2009d) ‘Roman leather’ In S.S. Frere & R.L. Fitts, Excavations at Bowes and Lease Rigg Roman Forts, Yorkshire Archaeological Reports 6, 163-4
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October 2009*
Prehistoric
Harris, S. (2006) ‘A report on the examination of animal
skin artefacts from the Bronze Age salt mines of Hallstatt, Austria’, Papers
from the Institute of Archaeology 17, 69-76
Wills, B. (2002) ‘Windows into ancient Nubian leatherwork’ in Audoin-Rouzeau, F. and Beyries, S. (eds) Le Travail du Cuir de la Préhistoire à nos Jours, XXIIe rencontres internationales d’archéologie et d’histoire d’Antibes, Antibes, Éditions APDCA, 41-64
Roman
(authors H to Z)
Volken,
M. (2008) ‘The water bag of Roman soldiers’, Journal of Roman Archaeology
21, 264-274
Medieval (authors F-L)
Harjula,
J. (2008) Before the Heels, footwear and shoemaking in Turku in the Middle
Ages and at the beginning of the Early Modern Period, Turku. 223 page summary, drawing together all
the footwear excavated in the capital of Finland and comparing it to finds from
elsewhere in northern Europe. An important reference work for Scandinavia,
which also looks at documentary evidence.
Kissné
Bendefy, M. (2009)'Eastern and Western influences on Hungarian footwear of the
thirteenth-seventeenth centuries' in Éri, I. (ed.), Conserving textiles:
Studies in Honour of Ágnes Timár-Balázsy, ICCROM Conservation Studies 7,
pp. 87-96. This article can be found online at:
http://www.iccrom.org/pdf/ICCROM_ICS07_ConservingTextiles01_en.pdf
Conservation
Klokkernes,
T. (2007) Skin processing technology in Eurasian reindeer cultures. A
comparative study in material science of Sàmi and Evenk methods – perspectives
on deterioration and preservation of museum artefacts, Oslo, Museum of
Cultural History. "The objective of this study is to characterise and
identify skin processing technology in Eurasian reindeer cultures and to study
the impact these methods and tanning substances have on the preservation
potential
of
the artefacts."
The
book is available online as a .pdf file via a link on this page:
http://www.langelandsmuseum.dk/LMR%20Press.htm
History of leather processing/manufacture
Nimmo,
M., Paris, M. and Rissotto, L. (2008) Cuoio dorato e dipinto [Gilt and
painted leather], Rome, Instituto Centrale per il Restauro. 255 page report, in both English and Italian,
summarising two decades of work on gilt leather artefacts in a number of
Italian cities
*added
July 2009*
General
Reed,
R. (1972) Ancient Skins, Parchments and Leathers, London
Prehistoric
Audoin-Rouzeau, F. and Beyries, S. (eds) (2002) Le Travail du Cuir de la Préhistoire à nos Jours, XXIIe rencontres internationales d’archéologie et d’histoire d’Antibes, Antibes, Éditions APDCA
Reisner, G. A. (1923), Excavations at Kerma (Harvard African Studies VI) parts IV-V, Cambridge, Mass., 19, 303-311
Ryder, M. (1984) ‘Skin, hair and cloth remains from the Ancient Kerma civilisation of Northern Sudan’, Journal of Archaeological Science 11, 477-484
Ryder, M. (1987) ‘Sheepskin from Ancient Kerma, Nothern Sudan’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology vol. 6 issue 3, 369-380
Early medieval/ Medieval
Cameron, E. and Edwards, G. (2004) Evidence of leather on finds from Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at St Stephen’s Lane/Buttermarket, Ipswich, Suffolk 1987-88 and Boss Hall, Ipswich 1990, English Heritage Centre for Archaeology Report, Portsmouth
Mould, Q., Carlisle, I. and Cameron, E. (2003) Leather and Leather-working in Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York, The Archaeology of York AY17/16
Structure
and Analysis of Leather
Daniels, V. (1997) Analysis of Excavated Leather Samples from Kerma, British Museum Department of Conservation Internal Report no. CA 1997/48
Conservation
Chiotasso, L. and Sarnelli, C. (1998) ‘Conservation of a Leather Antependium’, Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Leatherworking Group, Brussels
Cronyn, J. (1990) The Elements of Archaeological Conservation, London
Cruickshank, P. (2001) ‘Leather shrouds¼a rare find in Jordan’, in B.Wills (ed), Leather Wet and Dry: Current Treatments in the Conservation of Waterlogged and Desiccated Archaeological Leather, London, 63-70
Degrigny, C., Baron, G., Christodoulou, P., Tran, K. and Hiron, X. (2002) ‘Conservation of a collection of waterlogged composite rifles dating from the 17th century recovered from the Brescou ll marine site’ in Hoffman, P., Spriggs, J., Grant, T., Cook, C. and Recht, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th ICOM Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Conference, Stockholm, 2001 Bremerhaven, 399-412
Godfrey, I., Kasi, K. and Richards, V. (2002) ‘Iron removal from waterlogged leather and rope recovered from shipwreck sites’ in Hoffman, P., Spriggs, J., Grant, T., Cook, C. and Recht, A.(eds) Proceedings of the 8th ICOM Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Conference, Stockholm, 2001, Bremerhaven, 439-467
Goubitz, O. (1997) ‘What is wrong with freeze-drying?’, in P.Hallebeek (ed) ICOM Working Group on the Treatment of and Research into Leather, in Particular of Ethnographic Objects, (Interim Meeting, Amsterdam, April 1995) Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, 36-37
Hallebeek, P.B.(ed) (1986) ‘Ethnographic and Waterlogged
Leather’, Proceedings
of the ICOM-CC Leathercraft and Related Objects Working Group Meeting, Amsterdam. Amsterdam, CL Publications (Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science)
Keller, H. (1986) ‘Restoration of a Roman Leather Helmet with Ear-Muffs’ (summary), ICOM Symposium on Ethnographic and Waterlogged Leather, Amsterdam, 4-6.
Kozlowski, R. and Adamowicz, J. (1998) ‘Flattening in-situ gilt leather wall hangings’, Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Leatherworking Group, Brussels
Montembault, V. (2001) ‘Treatments of archaeological leather in France’ in B. Wills (ed) Leather Wet and Dry, 45-50
Omar, S., McCord, M. and Daniels, V. (1989) ‘The conservation of bog bodies by freeze-drying’, Studies in Conservation 34, 101-109
Painter, T. (1991a) ‘Preservation in peat’, Chemistry and Industry (fortnightly magazine) for 17th June, 421-424
Painter, T. (1991b) ‘Lindow Man, Tollund Man and other peat-bog bodies: the preservation and antimicrobial action of spagnan, a reactive glycuronoglycan with tanning and sequestering properties’, Carbohydrate Polymers 15, 123-142
Spriggs, J. (1987) ‘Aspects of
leather conservation at York’ in Friendship-Taylor, D., Swann, J. and Thomas,
S. (eds) Recent Research in Archaeological Footwear, AAI&S Tech.
Paper 8, 43-46
Spriggs, J. (2003) ‘Conservation of the leatherwork’ in Mould, Q., Carlisle, I. and Cameron, E. Leather and Leather-working in Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York, The Archaeology of York AY17/16, 3213-3221
Starling. K, (1987) ‘The conservation of wet metal/organic composite archaeological artefacts at the Museum of London’ in MacLeod, I. (ed) Conservation of Wet Wood and Metal, Proceedings of the ICOM Conservation Working Group on Wet Organic Archaeological Materials and Metals, Fremantle, ICOM, 215-219
Storch, P. (1997) ‘Non-vacuum freeze-dry treatment of two leather objects’, Leather Conservation News 13/2, Minnesota Hist. Soc/ICOM, 15-17
Sturge, J. (1973) The Conservation of Wet Leather, unpublished dissertation for the Diploma in Conservation, Institute of Archaeology, London
Sully, D. and Suenson-Taylor, K. (1996) ‘A condition survey of glycerol treated freeze-dried leather in long-term storage’ in Roy, A. and Smith, P. (eds) Archaeological Conservation and its Consequences, International Institute for Conservation Copenhagen Congress Preprints, 177-181
Sully, D. and Suenson-Taylor, K. (1998) ‘An interventive
study of glycerol treated freeze-dried leather’, in Bonnot-Deconne, C., Hiron,
X. and Tran, Q. (eds) 7th ICOM Group on Wet Organic
Archaeological Materials, conference proceedings, Grenoble, 224-231
Swann, J. (1997) ‘Shoe conservation: freeze-drying problems?’ in P.Hallebeek (ed) ICOM Working Group on the Treatment of and Research into Leather, in Particular of Ethnographic Objects, (Interim Meeting, Amsterdam, April 1995) Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, 34-35
Waterer,
J. W. (1972) A guide to the conservation and restoration of objects made
wholly or in part of leather, London, G. Bell and Sons
Wills, B. (2001) ‘Excavating desiccated leather: conservation problems on site and after’ in: B. Wills (ed), Leather Wet and Dry: Current Treatments in the Conservation of Waterlogged and Desiccated Archaeological Leather, London, 51-62
Wills, B., Shashoua, Y and Sully, D. (1992) ‘Approach to the conservation of a Mexican saddle and anquera’, Conservation of the Iberian and Latin American cultural heritage, International Institute for Conservation, 23rd Madrid Congress Preprints, 179–83
History of leather processing/manufacture
Dobson, C. (2003) ‘As tough as old boots? A study of hardened leather armour, part 1: techniques of manufacture’, Art and Arms, Florence, City of the Medici, International Arms and Armour Conference Proceedings May 30th – June 1st 2003, 55-77
McGregor, A. (1998) ‘Hides, horns and bones’ in Cameron, E.(ed) Leather and Fur: Aspects of Early Medieval Trade and Technology, London, 11-26