Conservation
Artifacts recovered from the site underwent conservation to preserve them for future generations and to prepare them for public display. Much of this work was undertaken through SOAR at Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Laboratory.

A touch tank was set up so that artifacts in the final freshwater rinse stage of their conservation could be seen and touched by the public. Along similar lines, the recovered cannon was placed in an electrolytic tank in the exhibit and was situated with a wall display to explain the conservation process to the public. Finally, J.W. Morris III, a SOAR archaeologist who became the first Director of LAMP, began constructing a scale model of the site. This season opened the analysis of this site and left many questions to be answered.



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