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Reconstruction of mesolithic family from Area 240 Seabed Prehistory
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07.05.2008

Seabed Prehistory

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned in April 2003 to undertake the research project ‘Seabed Prehistory – gauging the effects of marine aggregate dredging’, funded by the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The project demonstrated the scope for assessing prehistoric archaeology that has been covered by rising sea levels, and distributed the ...
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...