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WOOD SCIENCE FOR CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Fig. 11. Bauska/ Gara luterāņu church, frass at alta Fig. 12. Frass at construction
Fig. 13. Durbes castle, storage room Fig. 14. Kuldīga/ Trīsvienības church, organ
Fig. 15-17. Kuldīga/ Katrīnas luterāņu and Trīsvienības churches, and Bauska/ Gara luterāņu church
5) Although the two latter mentioned Anobiid beetles are of main importance, Hadrobregmus pertinax
was found with a massive infestation in one of the buildings in Kalaci as well as in the fisherman’s
house (K21) in the brīvdabas muzejs (Figs. 1, 2). 6) Here fresh-wood insects like Callidium violaceum
(L.), found in building (K8) in 2004, could be attributed to freshly cut wood for heating in and near the
house. Similar to the latter was the origin of frass derived from different introduced artefacts in other
houses of the museum (e.g. V64).
4. Outlook
Regarding the objects studied so far in the EC-project WOODPRO (QLAM-2001-00360, “Integration
of the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry in the European Research Area”) it became obvious
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