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Colour slides

551 434/6/1

Description Colour slides

Date 1970 to 1984

Collection Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin

Catalogue Number 551 434/6/1

Category All Other

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1328560

Collection Hierarchy - Batch Level

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151114 Andrew Fielding removing the deep overburden in the main wreck gulley using an airlift (1977). 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151115 Tony Long tending the compressors at the cliff-top base (1977). 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151116 Tony Long recording the media culebrina using a drawing-frame (1977). 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151117 Andrew Fielding uncovers the media culebrina as he removes shingle from the main gulley (1977). Note the depth of the deposit. 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151118 Tom Henderson of the Shetland Museum conserving the wrought-iron esmeril (1970). 1970 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151119 The industrial compressor on the cliff-top used to power the airlift (1977). 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151120 The gantry used to control the dropping of air-hoses to the site and to keep them clear of the cliff-face. The boat and functioning airlift can be seen below, to the right (1977). 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151121 The airlift, in three sections, ready to be transported to the site (1977). 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151122 Andrew Fielding prepares a load of larger stones too big for the airlift for raising inside a net bag (1977). Note the bronze media culebrina in the left foreground. 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151123 Chris Oldfield and Sydney Wignall examine the bronze media sacre after recovery (1970). 1970 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151124 Tony Long establishing datum levels with an inverted air-filled plastic hose (1977). 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151125 Tony Long surveys a gulley bottom with a metal-detector (1977). 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151126 One of the ship's wrought-iron rudder-pintles (1970). Scale in inches. 1970 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151127 Andrew Fielding attaches a small airbag to the airlift to trim it (1977). 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151128 The bronze media culebrina reaches the surface, suspended beneath an airbag (1977) 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151129 Colin Martin and Chris Oldfield examine the bronze media sacre on the pier at North Haven (1970). (Sydney Wignall) 1970 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151130 The present-day crofts on Fair Isle, seen from the south-west end of the island. The clusters of croft buildings approximate to the 'seventeen households living in huts' descried by one of the Grifón survivors in 1588 (1977). 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151131 The airlift in action (1977). One diver is down operating it while his buddy acts as standby in the boat. An orange buoy is attached to the diver below. 1977 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151132 Two sounding-leads from the wreck (1970). Scale in inches and centimetres. 1970 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151133 The bronze media sacre is hoisted ashore at North Haven with the assistance of the crew of the Good Shepherd, watched by Chris Oldfield (1970). (photographer unknown) 1970 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151134 Andrew Williamson, curator of the Shetland Museum, weighing one of the lead ingots (1986). 1986 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151135 The old manse in Anstruther Easter, built by the minister, James Melville, in 1590. Melville received the Spanish survivors when they landed at Anstruther on 6 December 1588 and recorded the event in detail in his celebrated Diary. Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151136 The old manse in Anstruther Easter, built by the minister, James Melville, in 1590. Melville received the Spanish survivors when they landed at Anstruther on 6 December 1588 and recorded the event in detail in his celebrated Diary. Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images DP 151137 The SE end of Fair Isle, seen from the top of Sheep Rock. The overhanging cliff of Stroms Hellier, where the Gran Grifón was wrecked, is seen in shadow on the left with Swartz Geo to its right. Item Level

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