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Adelaar: Ceann Aird Ghrein, Barra, Atlantic

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Silver coins and gold jewellery from the wreck-site.
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Gold finger ring with a blank field set within an engraved foliate design. The blank field was presumably intended to contain the initials of the purchaser. Scale in millimetres.
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Iron objects extracted from concretion with the careful use of explosives. Note their undamaged condition. Scale in centimetres and inches.
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Engraved copper-alloy cock-foot from a pocket-watch. Scale in millimetres.
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Spanish silver ducaton damaged during the hand-excavation of concretion. Such hand-induced damage led to the development of successful techniques using small quantities of explosives. Scale in inches
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Copper-alloy object of uncertain function, possibly a weight. Scale in inches.
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Three sizes of copper-alloy knobbed handles with unbeaten rivet studs at the base. These are presumably for lids to which they had not yet been attached
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Tony Long with the improvised holding-tank in which the bronze 6-pounder gun was temporarily stored in fresh water.
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Moving stones by bucket during the excavation of Gulley A. Note the dynamic motion indicated by the waving kelp fronds.
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The bronze 6-pounder, safely secured beneath his home-made lifting-device, is towed shorewards by Chris Oldfield.
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Bronze 6-pounder gun in Gulley A. The effects of abrasion on its surface are plain. Note also the rounded pebbles and smoothly round bedrock.
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The 6-pounder beside the pit which will form its temporary preservation tank.
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An archaeologist on the wreck-site recording in situ a cast-iron gun from which the concretion has been removed.
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A cast-iron gun lying in shallow water at the inshore side of the wreck. The thick and luxuriant growth of the kelp (Laminaria digitata) is very evident.
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Moving stones by bucket during the excavation of Gulley A. Note the dynamic motion indicated by the waving kelp fronds
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(Left) Scotland showing the Northern and Western Isles, with the location of VOC and associated wrecks. 1. Lastdrager (1654), Yell, Shetland; 2. Kennemerland (1664), Out Skerries, Shetland; 3. de Liefde (1711), Out Skerries, Shetland; 4. Adelaar (1728), Barra, Outer Hebrides; 5. Curaçao (1729), Unst, Shetland. (Right) The Isle of Barra, showing the location of the wreck site.
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Lead shot of 20-mm diameter (musket) and 13-mm diameter (pistol). Several hundred pieces of scatter-shot were also recovered, ranging from 2 to 5 mm in diameter.
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Silver coins recovered from the wreck-site. Many are damaged, abraded, or otherwise illegible, but they include ducatons of the United Provinces and Spanish coins of Philip IV (1621-1665).
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Flat banded finger ring with spiralled beading at both edges. The central field is decorated with applied gold motifs of truncated prisms, pellet-bordered discs, six- petalled rosettes, and daisy-like flowers. No mark present.
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Copper-alloy finds from the wreck-site.
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Iron tool, probably a bricklayer's line-pin. Scale in centimetres and inches.
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Lead pistol-shot (top left), musket-shot (top right) and scatter-shot (below) from the wreck-site.
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Perforated lead disc from the wreck-site, probably part of a pump filter. 200 mm in diameter and 3 mm thick, pierced by 19 holes.
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The bronze 6-pounder is brought ashore using simple technology.
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