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

 

 

 

*added 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