Excavation
(click on the images below for an enlarged image and further details)
all photographs taken by David Beard
Cleaning the mortar backing
Preparing to lift the Roman painted plaster
Pouring the ‘plaster of paris’ backing
Adding the hessian scrim reinforcing
Freeing the edge of the ‘sandwich’
Lifting the ‘sandwich’
The painted decoration revealed after more than seventeen hundred years
Revealing the second fragment
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