Maritime Project Summaries 2002-2003 : Projects : Historic Environment Enabling Programme : Grants, Policy & Guidance : Archaeology & Buildings : Research & Conservation : English Heritage

Maritime Project Summaries 2002-2003

HMS Hazardous: Dive trail and booklet

The annual setting up of the Diver Trail, with diving to re-establish the numbered base stations. An important part of the scheme is the production of the underwater trail booklets
Bouldnor Cliff

This project will investigate the nature and extent of submerged archaeological deposits off Bouldnor Cliff in the western Solent and the environment in which they were laid down.
Site stabilisation on HMS Colossus

Four separate operations were undertaken on Colossus. These were the stabilisation trial, replacement of primary control points, survey work at the stern of the wreck and a series of escorted site visits.
Langdon Bay, Moor Sands & the Erme Estuary Prehistoric Wreck Sites

To undertake the publication of the work on both sites. Current chronologies would place the material from both sites at around the thirteenth century BC, late in the Middle Bronze Age, thus making the sites two of the earliest known potential shipwreck sites in the world.