Shorescape Underwater 1 – Methods and Results

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bridging the Land and the Sea: Documenting and Assessing Climate Impacts on North Carolina’s Coastal Heritage", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In late 2023, AECOM performed an underwater archaeological remote-sensing survey concurrently with terrestrial archaeological investigations on behalf of the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology. The remote-sensing survey employed a marine magnetometer, side-scan sonar, and sub-bottom profiler and was performed in particularly remote and challenging areas. Following data collection and analysis, AECOM identified three shipwreck sites, two potential cultural targets, and two potential submerged paleo landforms. NC OSA later dove the three shipwrecks and two targets. This paper highlights the challenges associated with data collection in remote areas and summarizes the results of both the remote-sensing and dive investigations on the sites and targets.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Bridging the Land and the Sea: Documenting and Assessing Climate Impacts on North Carolina’s Coastal Heritage   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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