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Photo of a horse-drawn Knapp roller boat.
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Dec 23 1839: The American schooner Deposit was caught in a gale after departing Belfast, Maine. She was pushed on shore at Ipswich, Massachusetts around midnight. She was battered by the heavy surf while the crew and passengers struggled to hold on. (1/3)

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For historians of the news, media, eighteenth-century Ireland, and the Atlantic world: the Dublin Gazette, 1750-1800 is up on the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social online platform here www.virtualtreasury.ie/browse/Dubli...

U.S. Army will issue January apology for 1869 bombardment of Wrangell The apology is scheduled to take place in Wrangell on Jan. 11, with U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Army officials slated to participate in the ceremony.

One hundred and fifty-five years later, the U.S. Army is apologizing for its bombardment of the Tlingit people of Wrangell in 1869. Via Wrangell Sentinel

Sharing shipwreck stories to rewrite maritime history The story of the Gloucester shipwreck was too important to stay submerged. Here’s how academics, museum curators and the discoverers of the Gloucester wreck brought it back to the surface

The Gloucester Project is shortlisted for @timeshighered.bsky.social award of 'Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences' & the good folk at Campus asked us to share our story in the run-up to the award ceremony this week
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Thanks, my pleasure and glad you enjoyed. Love the photo and the old dive truck!

The Last Boat In, by Charles Napier Hemy, 1878. South Shields Museum & Art Gallery.

Magic and superstition in early medieval Ireland – some thoughts Aidan O’Sullivan People’s lives in early medieval houses would have been bound around by customary practice, by social norms and conventions, by religious beliefs (such as the thin layer of b…

Magic and superstition in early medieval Ireland-some thoughts

Aidan O’Sullivan
earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/59/

Published afterwards as O'Sullivan, A. (2017/18) Magic in Early Medieval Ireland Ulster Journal of Archaeology 74, 107-117

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Thank you and happy holidays as well!

… some practical and methodological guidelines and practices have changed quite a lot with new technologies whether for searching (sonars, etc), recording (photogrammetry, laser, etc), accessing sites (ROVs, deep water archaeology) etc.
Sorry for the long-winded response but it was a good question

… the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Héritage. The Sofia Charter was attached to the Convention and became known as the Annex Rules which still today describe general best practices. So, the general statements of best practices haven’t changed much However…

This publication is one example of this effort. Followed a concerted effort by ICOMOS through its International Committee On Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH) and that led to the ICOMOS « Sophia Charter » in 1996 which described the best practices. This in turn led to the development of ….

Excellent question Dave. No and yes I would say. The basic standards have been developed in the 80’s and 90’s at a time when treasure hunting was borrowing archaeological practices to legitimize its activities. This was also following large excavations like Mary Rose (UK) and Red Bay (Canada)…

Very well said and thanks!

Shipwreck/Ship Currency of the Day #23

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As I said, last post before the Christmas holidays, will be resuming in the New Year.
Hope you are enjoying these posts
Happy holidays to those who celebrate it!

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And a close up of the 25-cents coin.

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A close-up of the 50 cents coin.

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Last post before the holidays! Currency and stamp on Titanic! Big number of currency as well on this shipwreck/ship.
Here are the coins from Canada commemorating the centennial of the sinking (1912-2012).

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As I said, last post before the Christmas holidays, will be resuming in the New Year.
Hope you are enjoying these posts.
Happy holidays to those who celebrate it!

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A set of four stamps showing the stern of the ship with its propellers.

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Last post before the holidays! Stamp and currency on Titanic! Huge number of stamps on this shipwreck/ship from just about every country.
Here are the stamps from Canada commemorating the centennial of the sinking (1912-2012).

Boll of the Day #24
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As I said, last post before the Christmas holidays, will be resuming in the New Year.
Hope you are enjoying these posts.
Happy holidays to those who celebrate it!

Book of the Day #24

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This publication came out in 2000 for an exhibit at Pointe-à-Callières, the archaeological museum of the city of Montréal.

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All the men had to bring their own weapons which provides a very interesting collection of armement in the late 17th century in a colony.

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This small commercial vessel was requisitioned by Massachusetts to transport troops and carried 57 militiamen from the town of Dorchester, near Boston. None of them made it back home.

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This lead to a 3-season salvage excavation during which we recovered and conserved over 4,000 artefacts. The wreck was in a maximum of 15 feet (5m) but as shallow as 4 feet (1.3m) during extreme tides.

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Last post before the holidays!
30 years ago next week (24th) I received a phone from a diver who had found a wreck that proved to be the Elizabeth and Mary, a 450-ton bark from Boston part of Sir William Phips’ 1690 expedition against Quebec City.