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crin63
07-15-2010, 11:01 PM
This is kind of cool, I love old ships and historic artifacts.


Ship Buried in 18th Century Unearthed at WTC Site

Workers at the World Trade Center site are excavating a 32-foot-long ship hull that apparently was used in the 18th century as part of the fill that extended lower Manhattan into the Hudson River.
fox news

NEW YORK -- Workers at the World Trade Center site are excavating a 32-foot-long ship hull that apparently was used in the 18th century as part of the fill that extended lower Manhattan into the Hudson River.

It's hoped the artifact can be retrieved by the end of the day on Thursday, said archaeologist Molly McDonald. A boat specialist was going to the site to take a look at it.

McDonald said she wanted to at least salvage some timbers; it was unclear if any large portions could be lifted intact.

"We're mostly clearing it by hand because it's kind of fragile," she said, but construction equipment could be used later in the process.

McDonald and archaeologist A. Michael Pappalardo were at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when the discovery was made Tuesday morning.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/14/ship-buried-th-century-unearthed-wtc-site/

Sweetchuck
07-15-2010, 11:55 PM
Yeah, I saw this earlier.

I'm wondering if this part of the island was basically a landfill. It sounded like that area was backfilled to extend into the bay?

Kathianne
07-16-2010, 02:07 AM
This is kind of cool, I love old ships and historic artifacts.



http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/14/ship-buried-th-century-unearthed-wtc-site/

That's so cool!


Yeah, I saw this earlier.

I'm wondering if this part of the island was basically a landfill. It sounded like that area was backfilled to extend into the bay?

I bet the same type of 'finds' would be true if for some reason excavating was done in lakefront of Chicago. The 'beach' used to be Michigan Ave, that's a long ways from the present Lake front, at least a half a mile from E-W and I don't know how many miles N-S.