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Near-vertical view of lodging-knee in situ, its left end beneath aft surviving end of keel, its right end below a displaced wale. Scale 1 foot. |
1974 |
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The statutory wreck protection notice, 1973, flanked by (left) Roger Holman and (right) Ray Bishop of the Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group. |
1974 |
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Roger Holman tending the dredge pump. The disturbed water in the background marks the discharge from the dredge. |
1974 |
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Tony Long with the ingenious lifting device using a yacht-trailer winch, which used the flotation of the boat to raise heavy objects. |
1974 |
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Jill Sweetnam proudly displays a gold guinea she has just found (D1002). |
1974 |
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Keith Muckelroy takes preliminary measurements from a lodging-knee which has just been brought ashore. |
1974 |
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The lodging-knee, securely packed wet in a purpose-built box, is loaded at Craignure for transport to the conservation laboratory at the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh by Hugh McKerrell (left) and Keith Muckelroy (right). |
1974 |
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The recovered section of the keel on the slip at Craignure, showing the transverse capping of a scarph joint. |
1974 |
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A concreted cast-iron gun arrives at the conservation laboratory of the National Museum of Antiquities. Left to right: Jack Howells, Hugh McKerrell and Tony Long. |
1974 |
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Keith Muckelroy inspects abraded elements of structure uncovered by sea-bed movement. The piece of iron shot has been removed from elsewhere on the site and is in the process of recovery. |
1974 |
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A complex iron concretion on the sea-bed. Scale 1 foot. Subsequent excavation showed that it contained iron shot of various calibres, some of them larger than any guns on the ship, and broken pieces of iron guns. The find was identified as ballast trim, used to adjust the ship's balance. |
1974 |
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Keith Muckelroy using the water-dredge to clear debris from around one of the ship's guns. His air-line is clearly visible, and tape and drawing-board are readily to hand. |
1974 |
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Eilean Rubha an Ridire from the Table of Lorn, looking south towards Mull, Scallastle Bay right of centre. The wreck is close to the right-hand tip of the island. |
1974 |
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The wreck of the 'puffer' Ballista lost on Eilean Rubha an Ridire in 1973. It was during a visit to this wreck in August of that year that the Dartmouth was located. |
1974 |
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Eilean Rubha an Ridire from the Table of Lorn, looking south towards Mull, with part of Scallastle Bay on the right. The wreck is close to the right-hand tip of the island. |
1974 |
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Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group's visit to the site in 1973. |
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The Ballista wreck at high water. The inflatable boat is anchored over the Dartmouth site. |
1974 |
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The Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group and the St Andrews University team at work on the wreck-site, 1974. |
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The original members of the Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group investigate concretions recovered from the wreck, 1973. Left to right, Roger Holman, Allan Carr, Ray Bishop, and John Adnams. |
1974 |
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The St Andrews University team's inflatable boat containing charged aqualung cylinders and the water-pump used to power a suction dredge on the site. The dredge tube is lashed to the right-hand side of the boat. |
1974 |
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The team travelled daily to the site from Mull by inflatable boat and set up operations on the island. |
1974 |
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Richard Larn (left) and Tony Long (right) with the high-pressure compressor used to charge the aqualung cylinders. |
1974 |
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Once excavation began the aqualungs were replaced by a hookah surface-demand system which obviated the chore of charging cylinders and greatly increased underwater time on this shallow site. |
1974 |
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Jeremy Green (left) of the Western Australian Maritime Museum and Professor David Switzer of Plymouth State University, New Hampshire, at work on the project. Several distinguished foreign visitors participated in the project during these early years of the evolution of maritime archaeology as a serious discipline, in which Scotland played a leading part. |
1974 |
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