During last August the Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum Municipal Soler Blasco of Jávea has restored a set of ceramic pieces found in the excavation carried out in a plot of the archaeological site of the Atzúbia area. This excavation, directed by archaeologist Pascual Costa, was promoted by the owners of the land itself.
The restored pieces, five in all, appeared at the bottom of a silo circularly excavated natural soil white marl, a structure that had been used as estercolero or landfill at the last moment of occupation and use of this settlement, from the Mvsev interpreted as a small farm.
The relevance of this excavation and ceramics which have now been restored, falls to correspond to the last documented occupation in Xàbia of late antiquity (half of the seventh century AD) a few years before the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.
Ceramics have been restored by Maite Gay, a specialist in the restoration of archaeological materials. Restorer indicates that alterations archaeological material is soluble and insoluble salts, surface dirt, calcareous concretions and deformation caused by the weight of the soil and roots reservoir.
The intervention involved the dismantling of the first pre-arrival to the restoration workshop, mechanical cleaning and chemical reconstruction, removing soluble and insoluble salts with baths of distilled water and use of acids, consolidation, adhesion of fragments , volumetric reconstruction and chromatic reintegration of gaps.
The five pieces will be exhibited from next day 8 September at the entrance hall of the museum.
