The Minx body rusted, the Monaco body rotted. Rotted and overripe berries are removed to minimize insect and disease problems. Corpses rotted everywhere, and rats attacked the living too weak to fight them off. Inside the tomb they found a wooden coffin that was heavily rotted. However, the guardrails rotted and were removed in the 1950s and not replaced. Wooden trestles had to be converted to gravel embankments before they rotted away. Periodic repairs have been carried out since the mid-1990s to repair rotted wood. The substitute woodwork had now rotted away as well. Wooden objects which normally would have rotted were preserved in the water. These casualties soon rotted as they were not buried, lying in river streams. Over the years, the wooden marker rotted away. It eventually rotted and fell over the cliff. Canvas covers, rotted with age, split and scattered the powdered cork. They discover that Gruntilda has rotted into a skeleton while underground. These lumps are the remains of codices where all the organic material has rotted away.