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DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy van Duivenvoorde. Peter Harvey. Pete Taylor.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent archaeological fieldwork in Port Phillip, Victoria, identified a small shipwreck site near the Rye Jetty as that of the schooner Barbara. Preliminary investigations demonstrate that the vessel, built in northern Tasmania in 1841, had a deep-drafted hull with a double layer of hull planking, was sheathed with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy van Duivenvoorde. Mark Polzer. Mick de Ruyter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transient legacies of the past: Historical Archaeology in the Intertidal Zone", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent archaeological fieldwork in Lipson Cove, South Australia, recorded the small intertidal shipwreck of the ketch Three Sisters. Preliminary investigations demonstrate that the vessel, built in Hobart, Tasmania in 1874, had a double layer of hull planking and was constructed with wood from all...