Stabilise, pack, and label. We do not run a laboratory treatment on the trench edge. Waterlogged wood stays wet. Fragile metal gets a support and a written warning for the conservator. The object number matches the context sheet.
Field conservation is first aid, not a lab. The duty is to keep the object in the condition it can travel: wet stays wet, fragile metal gets a support, organic material is not left to dry in a bag on the dash. The object number matches the context sheet. The conservator gets a written note on what not to do in transit. We do not invent a treatment because the trench is closing tomorrow.
Support, wrap, keep wet or dry as the material requires. Nothing irreversible on the trench edge.
The object number is the context number. If they do not match, the archive cannot use the find.
Packed for the conservator with a note: what it is, how it was lifted, what must not happen in transit.
A first note does not need a full brief. This is enough to start a scope.
Said here so it does not have to be discovered on the trench.
Regional places only. Site numbers stay in the project file.
Silwan / Pool of Siloam, Jerusalem. First aid for waterlogged timber lifted from a wet context.
Sultan’s Pool / Hinnom, Jerusalem. Temporary hold on loose facing at Sultan’s Pool. Not a reconstruction.
Say so. We will pack for travel and write the note. Naming the conservator is still your job, or the license holder’s.
No. Support and a warning. Treatment belongs in a lab, not on the section.
Site or district, what you already know, and a deadline. We reply by email from Jerusalem.