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Dorset Coast Historic Environment Survey
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07.05.2008

Dorset Coast Historic Environment Survey

The Dorset Coast Historic Environment Survey by Wessex Archaeology, grew out of the work of the Archaeology Group (AG) of the Dorset Coastal Forum (DCF). The AG realised that little was known about the condition of historic buildings and archaeological sites along much of Dorset’s coast and how vulnerable they were to changes to the coastline. A pr...
ALSF England’s Shipping Anchor of the Concha
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07.05.2008

ALSF England’s Shipping

Large numbers of shipwrecks, unidentified anomalies, and debris have built up on the seabed over the twelve millenia of maritime activity in UK waters. Only a fraction of this submerged cultural resource is currently recorded. The England’s Shipping project was undertaken by Wessex Archaeology to research ways of mapping shipping movements recor...
ALSF Artefacts from the Sea -Jar of bear grease on the Pipe Wreck
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02.05.2008

ALSF Artefacts from the Sea

In 2002 Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by English Heritage, funded through the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund to undertake research into previously recovered archaeological artefacts from the sea. The purpose of the project was to collate and enhance records of artefacts from the sea and inter-tidal areas, held by the National Monuments Re...
Commemoration of the sinking of the SS Mendi
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01.05.2008

Wreck of the SS Mendi

In the dark and fog of the night of Wednesday 21st February 1917, the ss Mendi was rammed by another ship. It was an accident, but with a deep gash in its side, the Mendi was doomed. She sank 25 minutes later and almost 650 men died. The wreck lies off The Isle of Wight, in the English Channel. In Britain the story of the SS Mendi is almost unknown...
Wrecks on the Seabed: Ecology
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01.05.2008

Wrecks on the Seabed: Ecology

As part of two major projects: the ALSF funded Wrecks on the Seabed project and the contract to implement the Protection of Wrecks Act (PWA) for English Heritage (now Historic England), Wessex Archaeology’s dive team has surveyed more than 65 shipwreck sites around the coast of the United Kingdom.
Reconstruction showing the Boscombe bowmen family at Stonehenge
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30.04.2008

The Boscombe Bowmen

The grave of the Boscombe Bowmen was discovered during the digging of a trench for a new water pipe in May 2003. When archaeologist Colin Kirby saw human bone and pottery dating to the Bronze Age pottery, he realised immediately that a grave had been disturbed. It was soon clear that there was something unusual about the grave. There was not jus...