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Project Description

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:
ar­chae­olo­gic­al sites,
plan­ning & ex­ecut­ing in­ter­ven­tions, en­vir­on­ment­al mon­it­or­ing