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Specie A single gold coin, a hand-struck ducat dated 1729 minted in Utrecht as part of the Company’s money aboard (A0402 photo centre pages). Bottles Only 18 numbers were allocated to bottles. Lead Rolls Forty-two lead rolls were recovered, the largest concentration in B7A (19). Other items Broken wineglass stems (Photo 28) of differing types are suggestive of items that came from decks above as did the fork (A0385), 12 spoons, 7 shoe elements. Two shot were recovered (A0410, A0417, both lead) to living quarters and working areas rather than bulk storage areas. Trench 3, Outboard Excavation occurred in sectors W5A-W8A/B over 11 dives. Although the distinction of inboard and outboard is difficult in the absence of coherent structure, the sediment changes suggest that the designation on of the original grid squares with “W” representing outboard and “B” representing inboard appears sound. The huge number of finds from the sector W8A alone reflect the tilt to port which has resulted in objects and structural elements from the decks above the hold being distributed outside the port side. Outside the expected line of the port side pockets of silt mixed with sand yielded clusters of objects22 (A0580, A0592). All of these pockets produced mixed items, for example structural elements (A0581), sheathing, blocks (A0575, A0568), gland (A0566), rigging (A0583) and a hollow wood cylinder (A0586). Items included (dive 119) a musket (A0548) a trigger guard (A0508), an oil lamp (A0507) and a tap (A0465) along with broken glass stems, pottery, lead rolls and a shoe (A0439). Buckles and buttons Twelve copper alloy buckles were recovered, most from sector W8A23. Although some were found together, they do not appear to be identical. The distribution for the eight buttons is similar. Cloth Seals No cloth seals were recovered. Pipes Only eight pipe fragments were found outboard ,one of which was a bowl (A0483). Bottles Eighteen numbers were allocated to bottles or parts of bottles (Photo 29). 22 Video log dive 127 23 Dives 89,90,92,95 - 43 -