551 434/2/3
Description Project colour photographs
Date 1973 to 1975
Collection Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
Catalogue Number 551 434/2/3
Category All Other
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1325473
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Collection Level (551 434) Dr Colin and Dr Paula Martin
> Group Level (551 434/2) The Dartmouth excavation.
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Preview | Category | Catalogue Number | Title | Date | Level |
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On-line Digital Images | SC 1325742 | Eilean Rubha an Ridire from the Table of Lorn, looking south towards Mull, Scallastle Bay right of centre. The wreck is close to the right-hand tip of the island. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325745 | The wreck of the 'puffer' Ballista lost on Eilean Rubha an Ridire in 1973. It was during a visit to this wreck in August of that year that the Dartmouth was located. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325743 | Eilean Rubha an Ridire from the Table of Lorn, looking south towards Mull, with part of Scallastle Bay on the right. The wreck is close to the right-hand tip of the island. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325744 | Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group's visit to the site in 1973. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325746 | The Ballista wreck at high water. The inflatable boat is anchored over the Dartmouth site. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325747 | The Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group and the St Andrews University team at work on the wreck-site, 1974. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325748 | The original members of the Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group investigate concretions recovered from the wreck, 1973. Left to right, Roger Holman, Allan Carr, Ray Bishop, and John Adnams. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325749 | The statutory wreck protection notice, 1973, flanked by (left) Roger Holman and (right) Ray Bishop of the Bristol Undersea Archaeology Group. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325750 | The St Andrews University team's inflatable boat containing charged aqualung cylinders and the water-pump used to power a suction dredge on the site. The dredge tube is lashed to the right-hand side of the boat. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325751 | The team travelled daily to the site from Mull by inflatable boat and set up operations on the island. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325752 | Richard Larn (left) and Tony Long (right) with the high-pressure compressor used to charge the aqualung cylinders. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325753 | Once excavation began the aqualungs were replaced by a hookah surface-demand system which obviated the chore of charging cylinders and greatly increased underwater time on this shallow site. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325754 | 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. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325755 | Roger Holman tending the dredge pump. The disturbed water in the background marks the discharge from the dredge. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325756 | Tony Long, the indispensable diving technician from St Andrews University, tending the dredge pump | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325758 | Tony Long with the ingenious lifting device using a yacht-trailer winch, which used the flotation of the boat to raise heavy objects. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325759 | Tony Long towing a section of the hull structure suspended beneath a lifting-bag. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325760 | Jill Sweetnam proudly displays a gold guinea she has just found (D1002). | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325761 | Keith Muckelroy takes preliminary measurements from a lodging-knee which has just been brought ashore. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325762 | Keith Muckelroy takes preliminary measurements from a lodging-knee which has just been brought ashore. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325763 | The lodging-knee, securely packed wet in a purpose-built box, is loaded at Craignure for transport to the conservation laboratory at the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh by Hugh McKerrell (left) and Keith Muckelroy (right). | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325764 | Tony Long (left) and Keith Muckelroy (right) securing a recovered section of the hull on a low loader for transport to Edinburgh. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325765 | The recovered section of the keel on the slip at Craignure, showing the transverse capping of a scarph joint. | 1974 | Item Level | |
On-line Digital Images | SC 1325766 | A concreted cast-iron gun arrives at the conservation laboratory of the National Museum of Antiquities. Left to right: Jack Howells, Hugh McKerrell and Tony Long. | 1974 | Item Level |