The care of ancient monuments

这一研究所的成员似乎很可能与我建议发言的事项对抗他们的问题，并且实际上，旧建筑商工作的材料的局限性在更窄的界限范围内将其局限于indelas限制比我们的。建筑艺术是一个非常古老的艺术，许多现代科学的结果已经通过拇指世纪前的统治预期，被遗忘并重新发现在不同的环境中。对这些事情的了解在处理古代结构方面是必不可少的，在那里思想过去的方法和理想是正确治疗的唯一肯定指南。显而易见的是，这将限制我们的权宜之计;我们必须排除在新作品中方便且有利的处理，但与旧的不相容。我赶紧补充一点，我不六点表明现代科学的结果不适用于古老的建筑物，或者我们应该使用建筑商不知道的流程。离得很远;我们的声称是一代人的遗产，其历史的遗产必须依赖于我们在我们所处理的所有手段的就业，以保护这种遗产。Buthey必须以正确的方式使用，从而从这个弹出春天必须观察到的限制。 An ancient monument, speaking generally, has three precious qualities: its history, its beauty, and its educational value; in attempting to prolong its existence we must not obscure or destroy these qualities. If something must be sacrificed to preserve the rest, the distinction between essentials and non-essentials must be clearly defined, or perbaps it would be more accurate to say that the relative importance of parts which are all by the nature of the case important must be apprehended. The monuments under the charge of the Department of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings rahge from earthworks and megalithic monuments to seventeenth century houses, and demand an equally wide range of treatment. They present in infinite variety examples of the ills to which antiquity is subject, but their dilapidatison, when not due to intentional damage, may be said to arise from two main sources, damp and structural weakness; the accumulated shortcomings of nature and man. C. R. Peers