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Adelaar: Ceann Aird Ghrein, Barra, Atlantic

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The muzzle of the 6-pounder breaks the surface.
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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.
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Excavating a narrow gulley using a suction dredge. Note the bucket behind the archaeologist, used to carry away larger stones.
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Excavating a narrow gulley using a suction dredge. Note the bucket behind the archaeologist, used to carry away larger stones.
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Stropping the lead ingots preparatory to lifting them.
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Copper bars, perhaps bullion. They may be examples of the "yellow copper in bundles" noted in the ship's manifest
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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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The wreck site and its environs.
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Section A-B across the main wreck area. The vertical scale is not exaggerated.
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Copper alloy items.
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Access to the site was by inflatable boat, seen here approaching Low Rock, photographed from Middle Rock.
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Copper-alloy pan. Scale in inches and centimetres.
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Perforated lead disc, probably part of a pump filter from the wreck-site. Scale in inches and centimetres.
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General view of gold finger ring.
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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.
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Engraved copper-alloy cock-foot from a pocket-watch. Width 22 mm.
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Engraved copper-alloy cock-foot from a pocket-watch. Scale in millimetres.
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Colin Martin prepares for an excavation stint, with his basic tools of bucket, shovel and drawing-board.
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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.
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Secure under the flotation bag, a lead ingot is towed ashore.
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Excavating a narrow cleft in Gulley A with a suction dredge reveals two lead ingots.
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Excavating a narrow cleft in Gulley A with a suction dredge reveals two lead ingots.
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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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General view across the wreck-site from the south-east.
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