TREASURE TROVE
Most of us have dreamed of finding buried treasure, and however remote the possibility might be on land, the coastline of Britain, surrounded by the wrecks of ships, is an area of exploration that is proving to be profitable for the skin diver. But apart from the money value a sunken ship might hold, have you ever wondered how important some of these wrecks are to archaeologists and historians? In a 8.8. C. World Service broadcast, Miss Du Platt Taylor, of the department of Archaeology at London University, had this to say:— “Wrecks are a capsule in time, because everything in a ship and on a ship, which was there when she sank, was in use at that particular time. This is something which we don’t get on land. We may get a tomb group, but things have been selected to put there; whereas in a ship when she sinks the things are there because they are the cargo, or in use as the tools of the crew or the trading material of the captain. And this is an invaluable time factor which we don’t obtain in any other way."
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31926, 1 March 1969, Page 5
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