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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...