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| One of the sections onboard the salvage barge Hookness. |  |
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| Bow section recovered onboard PLA salvage barge Hookness. |  |
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| Bow section of the Elizabethan wreck being brought onshore for recording. |  |
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| The bow section of the ship being recorded by total station by WA surveyors to create a CAD model which can be used to help better understand how vessel was constructed and how the five large pieces of the wreck fit together. |  |
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| The ships timbers are massive and moving them from the salvage barge onto the quayside for archaeological recording proves a tricky task. |  |
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| A side scan sonar image of the remains of the Princes Channel Wreck gathered in May 2004 before excavation and recovery began. |  |
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| The bow section being lifted on board the PLA's salvage barge Hookness. |  |
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| The bow section being lifted on board the PLA's salvage barge Hookness. |  |
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| Part of the side of the ship being lifted on board the PLA's salvage barge Hookness. |  |
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| Part of the side of the ship breaking the surface at the end of a long day of recovery operations. |  |
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| One of the most delicate items recovered from the wreck - part of a leather garment or jerkin. |  |
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| Surveyors from Wessex Archaeology undertaking the shore side recording of a section of the hull. |  |
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| One of Wessex Archaeology’s diving team preparing to start work underwater. |  |
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| The grasshopper motif associated with Sir Thomas Gresham on the barrel of the cannon. |  |
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| The maker’s mark of ‘T G’ or Thomas Gresham on the barrel of the cannon, revealed after the careful removal of the concretion. |  |
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| Small pewter candlestick, used onboard by crewmen. | 
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| Staff from Wessex Archaeology’s Finds section identifying a fragment of Spanish Olive jar widely used as a container for trade food stuffs by mariners in 16th-17th centuries. |  |
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