Drs Colin and Paula Martin
18/03/2014
RCAHMS have published a new 'wreck map' showing the density of 1,200 years of shipwrecks in Scottish waters as part of a drive to enhance the maritime record for Scotland. This map was produced as part of Project Adair, a partnership between RCAHMS and Historic Scotland to collate and promote information on the marine historic environment.
The project has drawn on records from commercial consultants WA Coastal and Marine and ORCA, and thousands of records held digitally in the RCAHMS online database Canmore. These include a huge private collection of photographs and materials recently donated to RCAHMS by the pioneer of nautical archaeology in Scotland, Colin Martin. The Colin and Paula Martin collection comprises 1,200 digital images of never-before published photographs of shipwreck dives off the coast of Scotland.
The national maritime record for Scotland is now greatly increased, with nearly four times more records of shipwrecks and a 40 per cent increase in maritime records overall. Freely available to the public, the records, photographs and data can be accessed via Canmore.
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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
© 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.
© 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.
© 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.
© 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.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Gold jewellery from the wreck-site.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Detail of gold finger ring 033 marked with the Amsterdam arms, the letters "P", DR" and a lion rampant. The maker has not been identified
© 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.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Tony Long displays a gold coin (D1001) recovered during excavation.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Gold guineas of William and Mary (left) and James II (right), obverse. Diameter 25mm.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Archaeologist Colin Martin making the salvage cut. (Jeremy Green)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Self-portrait of Colin Martin, taken on the Dartmouth site.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Waterlogged wood is only slightly heavier than water, so in the underwater environment it is virtually weightless, making it easy to handle and transport. (Tony Long)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Tony Long carrying one of the loose timbers ashore.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The bronze media culebrina suspended under two air-filled lifting-bags (1977).
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Colin Martin prepares for his first exploratory dive in Stroms Hellier on 11 May 1970. (Roy Dennis)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The 1970 team at North Haven with their Grant all-terrain vehicle. From left: Chris Oldfield, Simon Martin (seated), Sydney Wignall and Colin Martin. (photographer unknown)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Raising the bronze media sacre (1970).
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The 1970 team on the pier at North Haven, Fair Isle, with guns recovered from the wreck. From left: Simon Martin, Sydney Wignall, Colin Martin and Chris Oldfield. (photographer unknown)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The industrial compressor on the cliff-top used to power the airlift (1977).
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The cliff-top base above Stroms Hellier with team members Keith Muckelroy (left) and Paula Martin (right) (1977).
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The bronze media culebrina is hoisted ashore at North Haven (1977).
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Tony Long servicing the airlift compressor (1977). (Paula Martin)
© 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
© 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.
© 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.
© 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.
© 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.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Gold jewellery from the wreck-site.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Detail of gold finger ring 033 marked with the Amsterdam arms, the letters "P", DR" and a lion rampant. The maker has not been identified
© 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.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Tony Long displays a gold coin (D1001) recovered during excavation.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Gold guineas of William and Mary (left) and James II (right), obverse. Diameter 25mm.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Archaeologist Colin Martin making the salvage cut. (Jeremy Green)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Self-portrait of Colin Martin, taken on the Dartmouth site.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Waterlogged wood is only slightly heavier than water, so in the underwater environment it is virtually weightless, making it easy to handle and transport. (Tony Long)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Tony Long carrying one of the loose timbers ashore.
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The bronze media culebrina suspended under two air-filled lifting-bags (1977).
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Colin Martin prepares for his first exploratory dive in Stroms Hellier on 11 May 1970. (Roy Dennis)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The 1970 team at North Haven with their Grant all-terrain vehicle. From left: Chris Oldfield, Simon Martin (seated), Sydney Wignall and Colin Martin. (photographer unknown)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Raising the bronze media sacre (1970).
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The 1970 team on the pier at North Haven, Fair Isle, with guns recovered from the wreck. From left: Simon Martin, Sydney Wignall, Colin Martin and Chris Oldfield. (photographer unknown)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The industrial compressor on the cliff-top used to power the airlift (1977).
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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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)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The cliff-top base above Stroms Hellier with team members Keith Muckelroy (left) and Paula Martin (right) (1977).
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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The bronze media culebrina is hoisted ashore at North Haven (1977).
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
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Tony Long servicing the airlift compressor (1977). (Paula Martin)
© Courtesy of HES (Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin Collection)
