Excavation
Date 1972 - 1974
Event ID 929756
Category Recording
Type Excavation
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Adelaar: Ceann Aird Ghrein, Barra, Atlantic
Dutch East Indiaman (18th Century)
Canmore ID 213275 |
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Silver coins from the wreck-site. (L-R: obverse of Philip IV ducaton, Brabant mint; obverse of United Provinces ducaton dated 1670; obverse of United Provinces 1-guilder coin dated 1706.)
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1972
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Silver coins and gold jewellery from the wreck-site.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1972
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Lead pistol-shot (top left), musket-shot (top right) and scatter-shot (below) from the wreck-site.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1972
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1972
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Obverse of Philip IV ducaton, 1639, scale in millimetres.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1972
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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. Scale in millimetres.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1972
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Linked gold buttons, under side. The arms of Amsterdam and the letter "B" are struck on the back of each button. This may be the mark of the Amsterdam silversmith Jan Breda (1668-1725). Scale in millimetres.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1972
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Linked gold buttons, top view, with decorative swirls and looped edgings. Scale in millimetres.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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General view of gold finger ring.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Detail of gold finger ring marked with the Amsterdam arms, the letters "P", DR" and a lion rampant. The maker has not been identified. Scale in millimetres.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Engraved copper-alloy cock-foot from a pocket-watch. Width 22 mm.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Obverse of a silver ducaton of the United Provinces, date on reverse illegible. Scale in millimetres
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Iron objects extracted from concretion with the careful use of explosives. Note their undamaged condition. Scale in centimetres and inches.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Engraved copper-alloy cock-foot from a pocket-watch. Scale in millimetres.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Octagonal copper-alloy bearing coaks, either from the centres of wooden sheaves or possibly the mounting of a swivel-gun. The larger is 9 cm in diameter and 6 cm deep; the smaller 8 cm in diameter and 5 cm deep.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Copper-alloy belt buckle. Scale in inches.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Fragmentary copper-alloy navigator's dividers. The bowed design allowed them to be operated with one hand. Scale in inches.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Copper-alloy dolphin-shaped spigot, probably from a barrel. Scale in inches.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Copper-alloy object of uncertain function, possibly a weight. Scale in inches.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Various objects associated with the working of the ship. Top, a deep-sea sounding-lead; bottom left, two copper-alloy coaks or bearings from wooden sheaves or perhaps the mounting of a swivel-gun; bottom right, two perforated lead discs, probably parts of pump filters. Scale in centimetres and inches.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Tony Long with the improvised holding-tank in which the bronze 6-pounder gun was temporarily stored in fresh water.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Bronze breech-loading swivel-gun with the A-VOC cipher. It lacks the breech-block which would have contained the powder charge. The piece would have fired a 4-pound solid iron shot or, more probably, containers filled with lead shot or iron scrap.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Close up of the A-VOC cipher of the Amsterdam chamber of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company), although the ship belonged to the Middelburg chamber of the Company, the cipher of which was Z-VOC. This indicates that ordnance was exchanged between the various chambers.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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A diving archaeologist conducting a metal-detector survey in Gulley B. The rounded boulders in the foreground are typical of the fill of gulleys on the Adelaar wreck-site, indicative of the dynamic environment which moves them around.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Three lead ingots nestling at the interface between the bare rock side of Gulley B (left) and the rounded boulders which fill the bottom of the gulley (right).
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Moving stones by bucket during the excavation of Gulley A. Note the dynamic motion indicated by the waving kelp fronds.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Moving stones by bucket during the excavation of Gulley A. Note the dynamic motion indicated by the waving kelp fronds.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Four lead ingots lodged at the interface between the sides and fill of Gulley B. Note the short ingot lodged in a hollow of the gulley wall from where, it may be presumed, it has never moved since deposition.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The bronze 6-pounder in Gulley A, from vertically above, showing the overhanging side of the gulley. this gun was seen by the 18th-century salvors, who could not reach it in their "diving engine" because of the overhang. they did, however, recover the second bronze 6-pounder known to have been on the ship.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Three lead ingots trapped at the interface between the side of Gulley A (left) and the mobile infill of the gulley (centre and right).
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Lead ingots lodged in Gulley A.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The dramatic topography of the Adelaar wreck-site, viewed from the mouth of Gulley A, looking west.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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A diving archaeologist conducting a metal-detector survey in Gulley B. The rounded boulders in the foreground are typical of the fill of gulleys on the Adelaar wreck-site, indicative of the dynamic environment which moves them around. Weed growing on the vertical sides of the gulley is visible to left and right.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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A diving archaeologist conducting a metal-detector survey in Gulley B. The rounded boulders in the foreground are typical of the fill of gulleys on the Adelaar wreck-site, indicative of the dynamic environment which moves them around. Weed growing on the vertical sides of the gulley is visible to left and right
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The metal-detector, looking over the operator's shoulder.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The metal-detector in use over the stones in Gulley B.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Bronze breech-loading swivel-gun with the A-VOC cipher. It lacks the breech-block which would have contained the powder charge. The piece would have fired a 4-pound solid iron shot or, more probably, containers filled with lead shot or iron scrap. Scale in inches and centimetres.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Colin Martin prepares for an excavation stint, with his basic tools of bucket, shovel and drawing-board.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The bronze 6-pounder is brought ashore using simple technology.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The bronze 6-pounder, safely secured beneath his home-made lifting-device, is towed shorewards by Chris Oldfield.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Raising the bronze 6-pounder with an ingenious device created by Chis Oldfield. He has welded a 4-legged construction to an abandoned fuel bowser and has secured a pipe between its top and bottom surfaces. This has allowed a wire to drop vertically to the sea-bed where it is secured with webbing straps to the underside of the gun. A simple hand-operated hoist is then used to lift the 1-ton object until it is right underneath the bowser.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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With the bowser securely grounded (left), Chris Oldfield winches the gun carefully in to the shore, watched by an interested islander.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The muzzle of the 6-pounder breaks the surface.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The 6-pounder beside the pit which will form its temporary preservation tank.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The temporary preservation tank, lined with polythene secured with turves and filled with water, with the gun now in place.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The lifting hoist, removed from the bowser, is now placed over the preservation tank so that the gun can be lowered into it.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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A barrel of iron nails, partially exposed within concretion by the careful use of explosives. Note the criss-cross packing of the items. Scale 1 foot.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Archaeologist Tony Long preparing to lift two lead ingots from Gulley A using a flotation bag.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Archaeologist Tony Long preparing to lift two lead ingots from Gulley A using a flotation bag.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Archaeologist Tony Long preparing to lift two lead ingots from Gulley A using a flotation bag.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Secure under the flotation bag, a lead ingot is towed ashore.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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A lead ingot is lifted using an improvised flotation device made from an oil drum.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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A lead ingot is lifted using an improvised flotation device made from an oil drum.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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An archaeologist inspects lead ingots at the bottom of Gulley B.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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An archaeologist inspects a heavily-abraded cast-iron gun at the bottom of Gulley A. The steep northern side and narrow bottom of the gulley are evident.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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An archaeologist on the wreck-site recording in situ a cast-iron gun from which the concretion has been removed.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating a narrow cleft in Gulley A with a suction dredge reveals two lead ingots.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating a narrow cleft in Gulley A with a suction dredge reveals two lead ingots.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating a narrow cleft in Gulley A with a suction dredge reveals two lead ingots.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating a narrow cleft in Gulley A with a suction dredge reveals two lead ingots.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating a narrow cleft in Gulley A with a suction dredge reveals two lead ingots.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating a narrow cleft in Gulley A with a suction dredge reveals two lead ingots.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating a narrow gulley using a suction dredge. Note the bucket behind the archaeologist, used to carry away larger stones.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating a narrow gulley using a suction dredge. Note the bucket behind the archaeologist, used to carry away larger stones.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Gulley A looking east, showing (in foreground) the 1972 hand-tool excavation hole with charges set beneath the concretion beyond. The aim was to dislodge the boulder just beyond the scale, against which the charges were placed; the boulder was displaced but the concretion surrounding it was excessively disturbed, scattering (though not damaging) the contained artefacts. Scale: 1 foot.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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An archaeologist on the wreck-site recording in situ a cast-iron gun from which the concretion has been removed. The strong current is revealed by the streaming of the kelp.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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An archaeologist on the wreck-site recording in situ a cast-iron gun from which the concretion has been removed.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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An archaeologist on the wreck-site recording in situ a cast-iron gun from which the concretion has been removed.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating by bucket and shovel in Gulley A. Note the clear working face in the foreground and the stacked spoil lying behind the excavator. Beneath the overburden a coherent layer of iron concretion is being revealed.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating by bucket and shovel in Gulley A. Note the clear working face in the foreground and the stacked spoil lying behind the excavator. Beneath the overburden a coherent layer of iron concretion is being revealed.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating by bucket and shovel in Gulley A. Note the clear working face in the foreground and the stacked spoil lying behind the excavator. Beneath the overburden a coherent layer of iron concretion is being revealed.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The underwater topography around Maolach Sgeir.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating by bucket and shovel in Gulley A. Note the clear working face in the foreground and the stacked spoil lying behind the excavator. Beneath the overburden a coherent layer of iron concretion is being revealed.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Excavating by bucket and shovel in Gulley A. Note the clear working face in the foreground and the stacked spoil lying behind the excavator. Beneath the overburden a coherent layer of iron concretion is being revealed.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Moving stones by bucket during the excavation of Gulley A. Note the dynamic motion indicated by the waving kelp fronds
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The letter "F" (inverted) on the trunnion face of a cast-iron 12-pounder gun. This mark denotes Finspong, a Swedish foundry north of Stockholm, which supplied the Dutch East India Company with the bulk of its cast-iron ordnance.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The muzzle of a cast-iron gun with the concretion removed for recording. Scale 1 foot.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The damaged breech end of a cast-iron gun with the concretion removed for recording.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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General view across the wreck-site from the south-east.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The luxuriant growth of kelp on the dynamic wreck-site.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Stropping the lead ingots preparatory to lifting them.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Copper bars, perhaps bullion. They may be examples of the "yellow copper in bundles" noted in the ship's manifest
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Inked publication drawings by Colin Martin. 'Gold jewellery.'
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
2005
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Gun types: 1: iron 12-pounder; 2: iron 6-pounder; 3: bronze 6-pounder; 4: iron 3-pounder; 5:bronze swivel gun.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The wreck site and its environs.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The nucleus of the wreck with reference grid (in metres) superimposed.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
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Section A-B across the main wreck area. The vertical scale is not exaggerated.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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1: expanding shot; 2–4: bar shot.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Bronze breech-loading swivel gun. The chamber is from de Liefde (1711) (after Bax and Martin, 1974: 84).
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Ship's equipment and fittings.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The ‘Z-VOC-M’ cipher from the printed form on which Adelaar’s inventory of specie is listed. ‘ADL’ has been superscribed by hand; presumably this is an abbreviation of the ship’s name (after a detail in NAS AC 9/1203).
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Iron hammer-heads.
Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
1974
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
First 100 images shown.
Silver coins from the wreck-site. (L-R: obverse of Philip IV ducaton, Brabant mint; obverse of United Provinces ducaton dated 1670; obverse of United Provinces 1-guilder coin dated 1706.)
Silver coins and gold jewellery from the wreck-site.
Lead pistol-shot (top left), musket-shot (top right) and scatter-shot (below) from the wreck-site.
