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Actual Preservation Techniques

Volunteers Les Mancell and Tom Millard
discuss the best way to bring a stone
that they are working on back to life
Photo by T Nigh

• Actual Preservation of Standing Monuments Finding a lost stone, Bringing it to the surface, and Deciding what steps to take to try to preserve it. Laying Stones in Gravel, and Standing Stones up.
  • Repairing/Reattaching/Pegging broken stones, and spire Monuments, etc. Repairing/Reattaching/Repinning the decorative tops to old spire stones and others.
    • Rectangular Ground Level Stones The difficulties that you could find in raising them.
      • Foot Stones and Small Markers Some ideas on preserving these stones so others do not get the idea to destroy them later.

• Straightening Large Monuments How do I straighten those huge tall spire monuments?
  • How Long Does This All Take? Be prepared as this process is time consuming.

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