The second season of work on theKennemerlandsite, 1973 An interim report

A systematic approach to the investigation of scattered wreck sites

“…As mentioned above, the site on which I have been working, and which now serves as a testing ground for the potential of this systematic approach, is that of the Kennemerland, a Dutch East indiaman wrecked in I664 (Price & Muckelroy, 1974). Within this site, a sample area of 90m2 of sea-bed has been excavated, in which 6-8000 artefacts were located.…”

Discovery and Survey and of a 17th–18th Century Shipwreck near Drumbeg, NW S cotland: an initial report

“…In the context of the known maritime archaeological resource in Scotland, the wreck near Drumbeg appears to belong to an important group of Northern European wrecks in Scotland dating to between the 16th and 18th centuries, most or all of which sank while navigating the ‘North About’ route around Scotland which linked mainland Europe with the Atlantic and the world (Martin : 84). This group includes the Wrangels Palais (Bound and Sharpe, ), Lastdrager (Sténuit, ), Kennemerland (Forster and Higgs, ; Price and Muckelroy, ; Price, , Price and Muckelroy, 1977a; 1977b; 1979; Price et al ., ; Dobbs and Price, ), Adelaar (Martin, 1992; 1998; 2005), De Liefde (Bax and Martin, ) and the Fuday wreck (Prescott et al ., ). Within this group the wreck near Drumbeg is notable as it lay undisturbed during the period of intensive salvage or intrusive archaeological excavation and recovery which took place in the 1970s and 1980s, and includes significant parts of its hull.…”

Report on the first research campaign on the Napoleonic brick,Mercure, wrecked off Lignano, Udine, Italy in 1812

“…The latter are not only spread over a large area but also form an alignment that makes an interesting comparison with the distribution map of the cannon and ballast lost by the VOC ship Kennemerland, which sank off the Scottish coast in 1664 (Price & Muckelroy, 1974). This dispersal pattern of artefacts, according to Price and Muckelroy, may be the result of a slow sinking, in which the ship went under only after having lost part of its ballast, along with some anchors and cannon, along an axis of about 300 m. A dynamic of this type may be ascribed to the last living moments of the Mercure.…”