Publicomos

Réf.

42751

Type

article

Titre

Thermal analysis and archaeological chronology: the ancient mortars of the site of Baradello (Como, Italy)

Langues

English

Auteurs

Corti, Cristina / Rampazzi, Laura / Bugini, Roberto / Sansonetti, Antonio / Biraghi, Marco / Castelletti, Lanfredo / Nobile, Isabella / Orsenigo, Isabella

Maison d'édition

Elsevier

Date

2013

Pages

p. 71-84

Titre de la revue

Thermochimica Acta

ISSN

0040-6031

Mots-clés

archaeological sites / medieval architecture / chronology / mortar / hydraulic lime / building materials / analysis of materials / castles / archaeological dating / dating techniques / samples / history of archaeology / building techniques / conservation of historic sites / archaeometry / mineralogical analysis / petrographical analysis / thermal measurements and instruments / infrared analysis

Pays mentionnés

Italy

Monuments et sites

Baradello Castle (Como, Italy)

Résumé en anglais

Mortar is an artificial material, commonly used since ancient times and widely conserved, in many cases in good conditions, to the present day. In this study, mortars from different structures of the medieval site of Baradello (Como, Italy) were analyzed, in order to characterize the materials and to help archaeologists to define a building chronology, only partially hypothesized, so far. Firstly, thin sections were prepared and observed by optical microscopy, then samples were analyzed by TG-DSC, XRD, FTIR and SEM-EDX. TG-DSC proved to be the most useful technique for the purpose, because the treatment of its data pointed out differences between the architectural structures, suggesting a possible building chronology of the site.

URL

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/thermochimica-acta

Document joint

Thermal analysis and archaeological chronology the ancient mortars of the site of Baradello (Como, Italy).pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)