At the bicentenary’s celebration of the Battle of Roliça*, a treatment of conservation and restoration was done in the stone tomb erected in the Serra do Picoto (Bombarral, Estremadura), in memory of the Lt.-col. George Lake, by his fellow officers from the 29th Worcestershire Regiment, who fought with him.
Work done by Adélia Gomes, conservator-restorer od stone materials.
* The first battle of the Peninsular War between the General Delaborde French troops and the Portuguese and British troops led by Bernardino Freire and Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington.
Acknowledgements Municipality of Bombarral ~ British Historical Society
