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GUIDELINES FOR CEMETERY CONSERVATION PART FOUR -- APPENDICES 5. Cracked or broken mortise or tenon with plinth • Fall The options are: (a) if the tenon is still sound: • replace the plinth with a new facsimile, or • cut back the top of the existing plinth and remortise it, or • set the stone in a moulded concrete plinth with mortise, in the same form as the original, or (b) if the tenon is broken off 6. Masonry cracking • level the plinth top and fix the upper piece with non-ferrous dowels. Pressure from the continuing process of iron rusting and expanding when damp (a) where iron cramps within the masonry have expanded, remove them. If necessary, replace with bronze or stainless steel clamps, and repair masonry. (b) where wrought iron rails, posts and bars have expanded and cracked masonry: • remove iron from masonry • scrape away loose rust • treat as set out in 10. (hot dip galvanise if possible) • apply protective paint • repair masonry • using quality elastomeric sealant, fix-in a prepared hole in the masonry, ensuring that no part of the iron is in contact with the stone • stop up interstices in the masonry to make watertight, and ensure that water is diverted from the area. CEMS\Policy Paper Review & model letters\2nd Edition Jan 2010.doc 131
GUIDELINES FOR CEMETERY CONSERVATION PART FOUR -- APPENDICES 7. Spalling, fretting and delamination of monuments Rising damp (particularly near the base of the stone) Improve drainage at the base of the stone. Note that re-setting stone monuments improperly in concrete will accelerate this deterioration and any such work should be avoided unless it is strictly in accord with the procedures outlined in Section 2.3.1 of Part 3. Where significant monuments are already so set and deteriorating, the monument should be lifted and re-bedded in sand and fine gravel. Ifit is possible to remove some or all of the concrete this should be done, but only if there is no danger to the stone. Stones should be reset vertically if they are leaning, especially if the inscription or decorative side is facing the ground. Salt accumulation (particularly under mouldings) Ponding of rainwater (particularly on shoulders and carving of monument) Remove loose and flaking stone. Fill cracks with acrylic resin. Remove overhanging branches which trap airborne dust and salt particles and shed them upon the stone. Repair pointing to prevent entry of water if it is a compound monument. Ensure that water is drains well off the monument. 8. Inscriptions fretting on the monuments See (7). Also abrasion by vegetation in a wind Treat cause as in (7) above, but first record as much of inscription as possible and photograph with the sun slanting across the face of the stone. Lodge a record with the local History Society and Society of Genealogists. As a general rule, inscriptions and decorations in stone which are of interest because of their style and character should not be recut. In such cases a small stainless steel plate with a copy of the inscriptions may be fixed to with water-proof epoxy resin CEMS\Policy Paper Review & model letters\2nd Edition Jan 2010.doc 132
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