Cleaning tests! Removing algae with a soft tooth brush at soapstone sculpture, Rosenkrantz Tower, Bergen. Work for Statsbygg/Forsvarsbygg. Photo by Per Storemyr

I wish clients, partners and followers of my website a Happy and Prosperous New Year! I am glad for the trust you have shown my little company and me in 2018. And I look forward to aid in conservation and archaeological work at monuments, old stone quarries and rock art sites in 2019. Below is a gallery of photos from some of the sites I worked at and visited on excursions last year. Also, a list of reports, publications and web-articles finalised in 2018 is attached. They give a glimpse of activities, many of which will continue. See you in the new year!

Gallery!

Inside the South Tower at Stavanger Cathedral. In Stavanger I aid Archaeological Museum at the University with their work on the great restoration that is ongoing. Photo by Per Storemyr

Stavanger Cathedral. In Stavanger I aid Archaeological Museum at the University with their work on the great restoration that is ongoing. Photo by Per Storemyr

Looking for stone quarries for Selja monastery at the west coast of Norway, supported by Selje municipality and the Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Photo by Per Storemyr

The quay at Selja. This is the place I have regularly landed for 8 years now, in various work supported by Selje municipality and the Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Photo by Per Storemyr

Practical course on using traditional lime mortar at Selja. Mixing mortar (hot mix). Supported by Selje municipality and the Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Photo by Per Storemyr

Selja monastery ruins in 2018. Photo by Per Storemyr

Excursion to look at traditonal stone building in Piemonte, Italy. Photo by Per Storemyr

Impressed by the way Nepalese sherpa stone workers build a staircase in Hyllestad, Western Norway. Only manual work. Just looking. Photo by Per Storemyr

As an associate professor with museum Millstone Park in Hyllestad, I organised much work on traditional lime burning in 2018. Here from a national event on rebuilding a lime kiln. Photo by Per Storemyr

Working with lime in Millstone Park. Trying to save my eyesight after a splash of highly alkaline quicklime. Photo by Terje Berner

Showing visitors how a traditional lime kiln works, at Millstone Park. Photo by Per Christian Burhol.

Investigating stone age rock paintings in Espedalen. Work for Oppland county i 15 freezing degrees below zero. Photo by Per Storemyr

In a sea of whetstone blanks. Excursion to the great old quarries at Eidsborg, Telemark. Photo by Tarald Storemyr

Working at the Renaissance Rosenkrantz Tower in Bergen. With a view to Bergenhus and the harbour. Photo by Per Storemyr

Cleaning tests! Removing algae with a soft tooth brush at soapstone sculpture, Rosenkrantz Tower, Bergen. Work for Statsbygg/Forsvarsbygg. Photo by Per Storemyr

Excursion to monuments in Bergen, here 18th century Fredriksberg fort. Photo by Per Storemyr

Over the last 6-7 years I have regularly worked with scientific and conservation issues at several Alta rock art sites, a work supported by The World Heritage Centre/Alta Museum. 2018 was no exception. Photo by Per Storemyr

Learning traditional limeburning in Romania, together with Terje Berner. Excursion as part my work for Millstone Park. Photo by Per Storemyr

Reports published in 2018

Included are also reports that I published within my work for Millstone Park (www.kvernsteinsparken.no)

Storemyr, P. (2018): Rosenkrantztårnet i Bergen: Tilstand og konservering av vindusbuer og skulpturer – testforsøk. Rapport, for Statsbygg/Forsvarsbygg, Per Storemyr Archaeology & Conservation Services, Hyllestad, 23 s. [The Rosenkrantz Tower in Bergen: Condition and conservation of decorations in soapstone]

Bjelland, T. & Jónsdóttir, S. (red.) (2018), med bidrag fra: Bjelland, T., Rohmer Bonas, A., Egenberg, I. M., Gebermariam, K., Idland, B., Jónsdóttir, S., Meeks, A., Murphy, G., Oschmann, C., Schjelderup, P., Storemyr. P. & Ytterdal, A.: Dokumentasjon av sørtårnet, Stavanger domkirke. Historiske undersøkelser, kartlegging og forslag til restaureringstiltak. Rapport, Arkeologisk museum Universitetet i Stavanger, 153 s. + vedlegg. [Documentation of the South Tower, Stavanger Cathedral. Historic investigations, mapping and proposal for conservation]

Storemyr, P. (2018): Wadi el-Hudi, Aswan, Egypt: Geoarchaeology of Site 9 and environs. Amethyst mining in the Middle Kingdom. Field Report, Season November 2016, for the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition/California State University San Bernardino, Per Storemyr Archaeology & Conservation Services, Hyllestad, 40 p.

Storemyr, P. (2018): Bergkunsten i Ausevik og Vingen: Om strukturgeologi, forvitring og konservering – og forslag til programmer for overvåkning. Arbeidsnotat, for Universitetet i Bergen, Per Storemyr Archaeology & Conservation Services, Hyllestad, 31 s. [Rock art at Ausevik and Vingen, Norway: On Structural geology, weathering and conservation]

Heldal, T. og Storemyr, P. (2018): Forvaltning av historiske steinbrudd: Innspill til nasjonal strategi. Rapport til Riksantikvaren fra Musea i Sogn og Fjordane, avd. Norsk Kvernsteinsenter, Hyllestad. Kvernsteins­parkens skrifter, 4, 44 s. PDF at kvernsteinsparken.no [Management of historic quarries – contribution to a national strategy]

Storemyr, P. (2018): Tusen år med brytning av kleberstein tok nettopp slutt. En historie om mekanisering og globalisering. Og om å gjenoppdage gammelt håndverk. Rapport til Riksantikvaren fra Musea i Sogn og Fjordane, avd. Norsk Kvernsteinsenter, Hyllestad. Kvernsteins­parkens skrifter, 2, 33 s. PDF at kvernsteinsparken.no [Soapstone quarrying in Norway just ended – a story of mechanisation and globalisation]

Storemyr, P. (2018): Kvernsteinsbruddene i Hyllestad. Kartlegging for Askeladden. Rapport til Riksantikvaren fra Musea i Sogn og Fjordane, avd. Norsk Kvernsteinsenter, Hyllestad. Kvernsteins­parkens skrifter, 1, 60 s. PDF at kvernsteinsparken.no [The millstone quarries in Hyllestad. Mapping for the national heritage database]

Publications in 2018

Storemyr, P. (2018): Burning sea shells to make quicklime. I Vesterled – Westward Bound. Conference at the University of Bergen, Poster session, 17-18 October 2018. Poster at my academia.edu page

Hansen, G. & Storemyr, P. (2018): A Versatile Resource – The Procurement and Use of Soapstone in Norway and The North Atlantic Region. In: Silvertant, J. (ed.), Echoes of a mining past. Yearbook of the Institute Europa Subterranea. Silvertant Erfgoedprojecten, NL, 147-169. (Paper based on a previous publication, read at my academia.edu page.)

Major web-articles in 2018

In addition to the web-articles I publish here on my own site, I am also webmaster and writer for www.kvernsteinsparken.no. Here are the most important articles I wrote for Kvernsteinsparken in 2018 (all in Norwegian):

• Kalkbrenning i Kvernsteinsparken: Et bidrag til tradisjonshåndverk i Norge
• Kalkbrenning i Romania: 2000 år med ubrutte tradisjoner
• Historisk eksperiment: Brenning av skjell for å lage kalkmaling
• Ein nasjonal handverksfest! Ombygging av kalkomnen i Kvernsteinsparken i Hyllestad