Dear Brendan,
Thanks for your suggestion. I saw the Snow Squall at the Waterlogged organic archaeological materials conference in Portland in 1994. Molly Carlson described some of the problems then, but not the reburial.
There are a number of reasons fro reburying the timbers at their original site, few of them having any basis in logic. Druidic involvement and local pressure being the main drivers.
Mike Corfield
>>> Brendan Foley <[log in to unmask]> 02/26 1:12 pm >>>
Hello Mike Cornfield -
You may want to contact Professor David C. Switzer of Plymouth State
College, Plymouth, New Hampshire USA.
David was principal investigator on the Snow Squall project, an American
clipper ship lost in the Falklands. About 10 meters of the bow section from
the keel to the first deck were brought back to the USA in the 1980s. Two
years ago the structure was divided, with some subsections going to museums
and the remainder buried.
David's email is:
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Could you rebury in a location with similar saline content? Why return it to
the environment from which it came if equilibrium has been lost?
What alternatives to reburial does your scientific advisor recommend?
Good luck and best regards,
Brendan
At 12:08 PM 2/26/01 +0000, you wrote:
>It is planned that a large prehistoric wooden structure that was excavated
last year from the inter tidal zone should be reburied in a similar
environment. Since it was excavated the structure has been kept in fresh
water tanks while it has been examined and recorded.
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