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Project Description

Frost is a lead­ing cause of de­teri­or­a­tion at the ar­chae­olo­gic­al site in Avenches, Switzer­land. This is es­pe­cially true for ar­chi­tec­tur­al blocs made of grès coquil­li­er­, a sand­stone con­tain­ing shell­s, but is also true for non-ce­ment­ous res­tor­a­tion mor­tars.

Dur­ing an ap­plied re­search pro­ject, a frost-res­ist­ant lime-­based res­tor­a­tion mor­tar was de­veloped. The can­did­ate mor­tar was then ap­plied dur­ing an in­ter­ven­tion at the Ro­man theatre.

Keywords:
ar­chae­olo­gic­al sites,
plan­ning & ex­ecut­ing in­ter­ven­tions, de­term­in­a­tion of ma­ter­i­al prop­er­ties