A Mediterranean anchor of the 5th-2ndC BC found off the coast of Britain---new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/08/a-mediterranean-anchor.html …pic.twitter.com/0zMzLMLrwN
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Add in ?2ndC BC ex from Porth Felen, Wales, & have 3 from Britain now...looks like a pattern?! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-9270.1977.tb01011.x/abstract …pic.twitter.com/3PNqOty5V2
A poss Roman anchor+chain of 1st half of 1stC AD from Dorset: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_ewgzGUGXccC&lpg=PA438&pg=PA438#v=onepage&q&f=false … (pic=http://dorsetsea.swgfl.org.uk/html/seafaring/poole/cargo.htm …)pic.twitter.com/fw6Y2uvcRX
Have drogue stone type anchors ever been found in Britain?
Lots of pierced stones of poss early type from Plymouth Sound, but question is whether typologies are credible or if could be modern etc!
I love reading the continuing discoveries of you remaining professional polymaths! Please keep posting updates.
@caitlinrgreen does the tooling confirm origin. And specifics? Phoenicians or....?
@HyettNeal Material plus central rod showing it was cast around the wooden anchor; later stocks are cast separately. Used throughout Med...
@caitlinrgreen Wow! The rope looks almost like new! (sorry, just being a smarty-pants).
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