Login | Register
Accessibility

Font Size

100% 150% 200%

Background Colour

Default Contrast
Close Reset

Swan: Duart Point, Sound Of Mull

  • Details
  • Collections
  • Images

Filter

No Available Filters

Save Search

Log in to save your search
The exhibition in Duart Castle about the wreck and its background is now a popular visitor attraction. (Colin Martin)
DP 174738
 compare
The crew and presenters of Channel 4’s Wreck Detectives series during filming in the garden of the project’s field base at Lochaline in 2003. (Edward Martin)
DP 174747
 compare
Video footage has been taken throughout the project to enhance the archaeological record and for publicity and educational purposes. Here Dr Ian MacLeod (right) does a piece to camera with Ray Sutcliffe (formerly of BBC Chronicle) recording the sound and Dr Colin Martin operating the camera. (Edward Martin)
DP 174758
 compare
A pair of visiting divers tour the wreck, guided by a waterproof site-map. (Colin Martin)
DP 174764
 compare
At the beginning of the visitor scheme the site was carefully marked and labelled to allow divers to find their way around the wreck. However the maintenance of this system proved difficult, and the provision of a wreck-map and a few distinctive markers on the sea-bed now works well. (Colin Martin)
DP 174770
 compare
A batch of sandbags loosely filled with gravel is loaded into the inflatable boat for transport to the wreck-site. (Colin Martin)
DP 174775
 compare
A skin of sandbags loosely filled with gravel laid over an exposed part of the wreck. (Colin Martin)
DP 174784
 compare
The Archaeological Diving Unit paid regular visits to the site during the excavation period between 1997 and 2003 in their research vessel Xanadu. (Colin Martin)
DP 174795
 compare
Finely-turned wooden object with base (DP99/017), function uncertain; wooden final (DP00/107); well-finished elliptical piece of wood (DP01/011), perhaps a picture- or mirror-back. Scale 10 centimetres. (Colin Martin)
DP 174799
 compare
Diagram illustrating the use of a euphroe to rig the crowsfoot tensioner between the mast-stay and a cross-tree. (Colin Martin)
DP 174805
 compare
Clay pipes from the Duart Point wreck. All appear to be of English origin and of mid-17th-century date. Five have a heart-shaped impression on their flat heels bearing the initials 'NW'. Though the name of this maker is not known, the distribution of his mark is almost exclusively confined to the Newcastle area. Newcastle was the main supply-base for Cromwellian operations in the north during the 1650s and several sites in Scotland, including Duart, have produced examples of this stamp. It may, therefore, be seen as a marker of the Cromwellian supply-chain. Other marks in the collection (DP00/072a, which seems to depict a harp, and DP01/060a) have not been identified. Scale 10 centimetres. (Colin Martin)
DP 174840
 compare
Rope handle with knotted end-stops (DP99/039). Scale 5 centimetres. (Colin Martin)
DP 174843
 compare
Roughly octagonal block of fine-grained dark-grey stone (DP92/DG04), both faces covered with distinctive scratch-marks. Perhaps a touchstone. Scale 5 centimetres. (Colin Martin)
DP 174848
 compare
Wooden lantern-top (DP99/008). Scale 10 centimetres. (Colin Martin)
DP 174852
 compare
Frechen salt-glazed stoneware bottle (DP01/121, 120) with sprigged face-mask and escutcheon (Bartmann). In two pieces, and missing most of its handle. Scale 5 centimetres. (Colin Martin)
DP 174859
 compare
Staves from small buckets (flaring outwards from base) and a small tankard (flaring inwards). Scale 10 centimetres. (Colin Martin)
DP 174880
 compare
Long wooden carving (DP92/161), perhaps an edging for the upper transom. Timbers of similar form and style, though on a much grander scale, decorate this part of the Vasa's stern. Scale 50 centimetres. (Colin Martin)
DP 174900
 compare