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R. PRICE AND K. MUCKELROY: THEKENNEMERLAND
dom inspections around Stoura Stack did reveal further wreck remains, and in particular over 100 lead ingots, the lifting of which occupied most of the second half of the 1976 season.
b. Methods
On each site, work began with the removal of the kelp overgrowth, and all loose boulders, an exercise which often took several days. A base- line run longitudinally across the site was then established, and its position plotted with re- spect to two or more of the permanent pitons put in during the 1973 season, whose locations had been fmed from shore stations. A strip across one end of the site was then cleared entirely, extending for 2 m up the base-line. In most instances this strip was at the southern
end of the site, so that the predominant south- ward-running currents would take silt and other spoil away from the excavation area; in the case of Site G, which was sheltered by an underwater cliff from that current, work'began at the eastern end of the site, in order to establish a well-ordered trench before the most complex areas were reached. The spoil from this initial 2 m wide strip was taken away from the site to some previously excavated, or otherwise sterile area. Once this was completed, the excavation face could proceed along the base-line, spoil being dumped 2 m back onto already cleared areas (Fig. 2). Most spoil was shifted in buckets, with larger boulders being rolled back the requisite 2 m. Some workers found a light water-jet useful in clearing sediment, but a
Figure 3. Concretion 4, Site C. Scale with 0-05 m divisions.
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