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NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 6.3
Figure 2. The advancing excavation face, Site G . Scale with 0.05 m divisions.
roy, 1974: 257-260). Site F, familiarly known as Bellannine Gully, had proved particularly interesting, but had been left unfinished at the end of the 1973 season; it was thus the principal objective of 1974, and its completion occupied virtually all the time available. At the start of the 1976season it was decided to open two sites. One of these, Site C,had been investigated briefly in 1973, but it was known that a good deal remained to be uncovered, and it was hoped that it would be possible to detach and lift the large lump of iron concretion within it, known as Concretion 4. The other, Site G, was a previously untouched area, but an initial inspection had indicated that it contained a good deal of organic material buried within it; it also served to link two previously excavated
sites, D and F. It had been intended that, later in the season, trial excavations would be under- taken in other areas further away from the pre- viously excavated sites, but other demands on our time precluded such work.
Considerably less visual searching was under- taken during the two seasons,because the poten- tial of this procedure was pretty thoroughly tapped in 1973. This is not to say that we do not believe that there is much more wreck material to be found, but rather that the approach will have to be different. To the south of the site, the limitation is the depth of the water, while in the shallows to the north, the problem is the luxuriant laminuria growth; the solution in both instances must lie in the use of electronic devices. However, a couple of ran-
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