Cool stuff. According to Gothamist, a ship dating to the late 1700's was found while excavating a site near Ground Zero...
By Wednesday, the outlines made it plain: a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the World Trade Center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the Manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to light at 175 Water Street.
The area under excavation, between Liberty and Cedar Streets, had not been dug out for the original trade center. The vessel, presumably dating from the mid- to late 1700s, was evidently undisturbed more than 200 years.
Archaeologists have been flocking to the site to examine the ship, which most likely ended up being buried as landfill 200 years ago.
6 comments:
These types of discoveries always have me asking htf it was not discovered earlier. I think it's a tremendous find albeit a bittersweet one.
That is incredibly cool.
That is so Kick Ass.
oh very cool!
that is so weird
Very cool!
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