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2003 Diving Season - Page 4 of 5 - Wednesday 13th August

As the dive enters its last week, an interesting find was recovered in one of the trenches cut by the remotely operated vehicle. This was a deck plank removed from the ship in 1981 and buried offsite. It is particularly interesting as it is one of the planks directly under the spare pump for the ship. Made of 25mm thick elm, this 6m long plank may eventually be placed back inside the ship.

The wonderful weather has taken its toll with all the computers crashing out with heatstroke! The video survey of the site has been completed, including a "fly through tour of the hull hole." Memories of 1982 flooded back when a commemorative mug - issued for the raising - was discovered, probably dropped overboard just after the lifting of the hull.

Of the thousands of articles preserved, we now have some 270 registered finds and are engaged in the process of recording and photographing these. Many of these are small items such as lace ends or aiglets, buckles, silver coins, shoe fragments and elements from barrels, and we believe around 200 will be Tudor.

The last part of the operation is concentrating on cleaning up the site and ensuring that it is left in the best possible condition for the survey by HMS Gleaner in September this year.

Terschelling will complete the month's operation next Monday and we shall be posting our final despatch on the website on that day
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