November Member Meeting
Tue, Nov 12
|Tiffany Room at Flagler College
Our speaker this month will be Starr Cox, the Director of Archaeological Conservation at the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP)! She will be presenting her lecture, “Archaeological Conservation at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum!”
Time & Location
Nov 12, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Tiffany Room at Flagler College, 74 King St, St. Augustine, FL 32084, USA
About the event
Please note date change due to Election Day!
The St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum sponsors the maritime archaeology research program known as the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program or LAMP. LAMP’s shipwreck excavations and other underwater archaeological research activities are well known to many in the SAAA, but our members may be less acquainted with the laboratory work needed to stabilize and conserve the wide variety of waterlogged artifacts that have been recovered from St. Augustine waters. The Museum has a team of three full-time archaeological conservators who work in the “wet lab” facility on the Lighthouse grounds, and also work with the other LAMP archaeologists in the field. In this presentation, Director of Archaeological Conservation Starr Cox will discuss the variety of treatment processes needed for different archaeological materials and showcase some of the more interesting artifacts that have been conserved from underwater contexts in and around St. Augustine,…