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Castle Vrbovec in Klenovec Humski - continuation of archaeological and conservation works on the keep in 2016
Tatjana Tkalčec
orcid.org/0000-0003-3963-7706
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The Institute of Archaeology continued the conservation works on the masonry walls of the Vrbovec Castle in Klenovec Humski in 2016. The walls of the northern and western part of the keep were conserved and the masonry area of its compound to the southern part of the west wall of the castle core. The southern courtyard wall of the eastern room of trapezoidal layout was also mended. During the conservation works, the approach was to fix and consolidate, without any reconstruction or upgrade. This involved grouting the outer walls and completing the wall layout just enough to make a protective cap. The original building technique was respected as much as possible. In addition to these activities, sampling the floor inside the keep was conducted by colleagues from the Eotvos Lorand University, Department of Geophysics and Space Science, Budapest, in attempt to carry out the paleomagnethic dating of the samples and also the microscopic, chemical and physical analysis of individual samples of plaster with a dark coat were conducted at the Natural laboratory of the Croatian Conservation Institute.
Keywords
mediaeval archaeology; castle; keep; conservation of masonry; Romanesque; Gothic; 13th-16th cent.; Klenovec Humski; Hrvatsko zagorje
Hrčak ID:
189480
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Publication date:
21.11.2017.
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