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NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 8.4
Figure 1. Timbers trapped below one blade of anchor 1; the concreted iron arm of the anchor can be seen curving in from the left, while the timbers lie obliquely under it; scalc with 5 cm intervals.
discovered trapped below anchor 1 (Fig. 1); one of these appears to be part of a barrel stave, suggesting that they represent pieces caught there by chance, rather than a part of the vessel to which this anchor was lashed at the time of wrecking.
From the area off Stoura Stack a further four lead ingots were recovered to add to the 114 lifted in 1976; a detailed report on this whole collection has been prepared (Price et al., 1980). The iron concretion in the gully in which most of the ingots lay was further
investigated (see Price & Muckelroy. 1977:
fig. lo), and shown to consist of nails and round-shot; many hundreds of yellow bricks were also trapped within this deposit. One ingot was found lying at the foot of the under- water cliff to the south, at the mouth of a narrow gully down which it had presumably slipped. A little to the east of this lay a number
of yellow bricks and a piece of timber bound together with iron concretion; however, since this was neither embedded nor concreted into the sea-floor there is considerable doubt as to how long this has lain there.
Looking at the area around the more north- erly deposit of ingots (see Price & Muckelroy, 1977: fig. lo), removal of boulders in the
vicinity of anchors 3 and 4 uncovered a further anchor which had hitherto been totally buried. The metal detector revealed that concretion 2 is only the tip of a large expanse of ferrous material spreading 5 - 7 m to the north and west, embracing the isolated lead ingot (number 304) noted in 1976. Furthermore, the metal detector also indicated a great spread of metal contacts stretching up to 30 m north of the former pile of ingots, and extending up to 10m out from the cliff. The overburden of boulders and shingle is over a metre deep here, but one
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