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Fungus infestation on Roman architecture

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The Fon­tain Hou­se is a Ro­man un­der­ground struc­ture in Augst, Swit­zer­lan­d. A hu­mid tem­pe­ra­te cli­ma­te had per­sis­ted wi­thin the in­te­ri­o­r. Af­ter a num­ber of years a fun­gus in­fes­ta­ti­on had be­co­me evi­dent. A brown ozo­ni­um spread over an area of se­ver­al squa­re me­ters and small fruit bo­dies be­gan to ap­pe­ar on a re­gu­lar ba­sis.

With the help of an ex­per­t, the fun­gus could be iden­ti­fie­d. Wood used du­ring pri­or con­ser­va­ti­on work was de­ter­mi­ned to be the sour­ce of the pro­blem. The wood was thus re­mo­ved and the or­ga­nic de­bris was re­du­ced from the sur­face me­cha­ni­cal­ly.

Keywords:
ar­chäo­lo­gi­sche Stät­ten,
Pla­nung & Durch­füh­rung von In­ter­ven­ti­o­nen, Kli­ma­über­wa­chung