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El Gran Grifon: Stroms Heelor, Fair Isle, North Sea

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Keith Muckelroy drawing the large anchor, almost certainly belonging to El Gran Grifón, found some 60m to seaward of the main site in a depth of 23m (1977).
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The bronze media culebrina is hoisted ashore (1977).
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Lead seal, probably from a bale; the design on this face indecipherable. Scale in millimetres.
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Lead musket bullets (top) and arquebus bullets (bottom) showing the characteristics of impact which suggest that they have been fired.
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Two wrought-iron breech-blocks. 1977, scale in inches.
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Tony Long recording the bronze media culebrina in situ. Note the longitudinal datum tape against which the 1-m drawing-frame is positioned (1977).
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Wrought-iron breech-block exposed in concretion after careful use of explosives. The surface of the metal, though bright and clean, has not been damaged (1977).
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Raising the bronze media sacre (1970).
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Colin Martin checks the depth of the bronze media sacre shortly after its discovery (1970). (Sydney Wignall)
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Andrew Fielding attaches a small airbag to the airlift to trim it (1977).
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Members of the Tercio del Mar Oceano, a Spanish organisation which celebrates past military achievements by sea, parade at Anstruther during a visit in 1984 to celebrate the kindness with which their compatriots were received in 1588. They also visited Fair Isle.
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Tony Long recording the media culebrina using a drawing-frame (1977).
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Preparing to dump a net-load of large stones raised clear of the wreck-site under an air-bag (1977). (Paula Martin)
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Wrought-iron guns and breech-blocks.
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Tony Long using an inverted air-filled hose to determine relative levels on the wreck-site (1977).
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The bronze media culebrina is hoisted ashore (1977).
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The expedition's inflatable boat moored next to the discharging upper end of the airlift, photographed from the cliff-top (1977).
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The inflatable boat moored over the site, seen from the cliff-top. (1977)
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Colin Martin prepares for his first exploratory dive in Stroms Hellier on 11 May 1970. (Roy Dennis)
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The expedition boat over the wreck-site (1970).
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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)
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Andrew Fielding removing the deep overburden in the main wreck gulley using an airlift (1977).
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The airlift, in three sections, ready to be transported to the site (1977).
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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.
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