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Activity sheets – Common cemetery problems Before continuing with this activity, download and show students the Cemetery Maintenance slideshow. This slideshow highlights many of the issues facing cemetery conservationists today and introduces students to some of the real world problems that exist. Grave Concerns - Limestone memorials: Chemical or physical weathering? Activity sheets – Common cemetery problems The Howlison Memorial Block 101 Plot 17 is showing signs of delamination. The Oamaru stone (or limestone) is gradually dividing into thin layers across the surface and flaking away leaving the inscription very hard to read. What is the cause? _________________________ ______________________________________ What is the solution? _______________________ ________________________________________ _____________________________________ The Mitchell Memorial block 44 Plot 16is hard to read because of the growth of moss over the surface. What is the cause?_____________________________________ What is the solution?____________________________________ __________________ __________________ __________________ __________________ Grave Concerns - Limestone &marble memorials: Chemical or physical weathering? Activity sheets – Common cemetery problems This Memorial Block 2 Plot 14 in is also showing signs of considerable wear called fretting (meaning erosion by wearing away) so that the inscription is now largely impossible to read. Some chipping or splintering called spalling has also occurred. What is or are the causes? _______________________________ The Henry memorial Block 143A Plot 30 is generally in very good repair but the stone is badly stained with a red and orange colour which appears around the lead lettering and is visually detracting. What is the likely cause? _____________________________ _______________________________________________ What is the solution? ______________________________ ____________________________ ______________________________ __________________________ What is the solution? ___________________________ ___________________________ _________________________ _______________________ _________________________ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ Grave Concerns – Marble memorials: Chemical or Physical weathering? Activity sheets - common cemetery problems The Gray Memorial Block 27 Plot 8 has developed a considerable lean. What is the cause? ________________________________ ________________________________________________ What is the solution? _______________________________ ________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ The Campbell Memorial Block 33 Plot 66A has become hard to read for two reasons. The first is the black staining on the memorial. The second is the loss of the lead letters on the memorial. What is cause one?________________________ ________________________________________ What is cause two? _________________________________________ What is the solution for cause one?________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ What is the solution for cause two? _______________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Grave Concerns – Marble memorials: Chemical or Physical weathering? Activity sheets - common cemetery problems The Hanson Memorial Block 102 Plot 12 has developed a considerable lean. What is the solution? ______________________________________ This site on Block 194 Plot 42 has a number of problems. Can you identify what some of the problems are? The main problem has been the tree, the roots of which have upended the monument from the base. A second problem is possibly soil creep on the hillside as the edges of the plot have started to come apart. A third problem causing the monument to break may have been due to vandalism. What has each problem been caused by?____________________________ ______________________ ______________________________________________________________ What is the cause? _______________________________________ _______________________________________________________ ______________________ What is the solution for cause one?__________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ What is the solution for cause two? _________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ What is the solution for cause three?___________ ____________________ _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ ____________ Grave Concerns – Other memorials: Chemical or Physical weathering? Activity sheets - common cemetery problems Describe the site ___________________________________ Describe the site ___________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ What is the cause? _________________________________ What is the cause? _________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ What is the solution? _______________________________ What is the solution? _______________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Include photo or sketch Include photo or sketch Grave Concerns – Other memorials: Chemical or Physical weathering? Activity sheets - common cemetery problems Describe the site ___________________________________ Describe the site ___________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ What is the cause? _________________________________ What is the cause? _________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ What is the solution? _______________________________ What is the solution? _______________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Include photo or sketch Include photo or sketch Grave Concerns – Other memorials: Chemical or Physical weathering? Activity sheets - common cemetery problems Describe the site ___________________________________ Describe the site ___________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ What is the cause? _________________________________ What is the cause? _________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ What is the solution? _______________________________ What is the solution? _______________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Include photo or sketch Include photo or sketch
