The INMAR’s historical heritage studies and conservation laboratory (hereinafter LEC-PH) provides services ranging from heritage studies and analysis to the conservation and restoration of cultural, historical, and archaeological materials. LEC-PH distributes its work in two main thematic lines: 

• Materials study line. Microstructural examination of objects recovered from sites, characterization of their constituent material, or their study in the site itself.
• Conservation and restoration of materials line. Interventions on cultural heritage, including cleaning, consolidation, electrolysis treatment, stabilization in controlled baths, and in situ and preventive conservation treatments. (Simón Bolívar Multipurpose Building, University Campus of Cadiz).

These have several lines of work: treatment in baths for desalination processes, electrolysis treatment, control and measurement of baths, safety in treatments and materials, cleaning treatment, consolidation and control, conservation of materials by means of a cold chamber and analysis of material microstructures.

Equipment:

• Microstructural analysis of materials: microscopes (stereoscopic with floor stand, digital and metallographic), hot compression mounting, micro hardness tester, precision cutter,  grinding and polishing machine.
• Control and measurement of preservation baths: titrator for chloride measurement and potentiometric titrator, table top and portable multiparametric equipment.
• Electrolytic treatments: electrolytic tanks with multiparametric systems and control.
• Cleaning, consolidation and control treatments: micro sand blasting, micro drill, micro chisels, ultrasonic ablative equipment.
• Desalination and stabilization treatments: desalination tanks with control of temperature, agitation and gas suction parameters. vacuum pump, ultrasonic baths, demineralization system.

Service locations: CASEM laboratory no. 712 – Conservation and restoration laboratory (Andalusian Centre for Marine Studies – CASEM,  2nd floor, pala C. Puerto Real University Campus, University of Cádiz) and Conservation Research Office – Materials study laboratory (Simón Bolívar Multipurpose Building, ground floor. Cádiz University Campus, University of Cádiz).

To request the service, click on the following link: historical heritage studies and conservation service request

External users must register at the following link: CAU INMAR registration

For more information, please contact the research staff: laboratorio.lecph@uca.es

Website: https://lec-ph.uca.es

The equipment associated with this service has been financed by: