Conservation of metal artifacts from the Polish Mission excavation at Saruq Al-Hadid (UAE)

Abstract

The article documents and discusses field conservation methods and procedures applied to metal artifacts, both copper and iron, discovered by the Polish team working at the Saruq al-Hadid archaeological site in the UAE (Emirate of Dubai) in 2016/2017 and 2017/2018. An overview is given of the conservation challenges that the state of preservation of the metal finds presented and the methods and procedures that were applied on the site, including brief case studies of the most important findsand treatments.

Keywords

• Saruq al-Hadid
• weaponry
• copper
• iron
• conservation