Abstract
Abstract The Faddan More Psalter is an early medieval vellum manuscript discovered in a peat bog in County Tipperary, Ireland in 2006. This paper focuses on a single aspect of its conservation: the dewatering of the saturated vellum text block, a process commonly used to remove excess water and debris from archaeological finds. The surviving vellum fragments had remained saturated for over a millennium in a very wet environment. No vellum of the same antiquity is known to have been conserved from these extreme conditions. As a result, new systems had to be developed and tested in order to find a successful approach to allow this unique manuscript to be conserved. The task was further complicated by the lack of comparable test material available.
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