Posted on 07/15/2010 12:31:59 PM PDT by the scotsman
'Archaeologists working at the World Trade Centre site in New York have found the remains of a wooden ship apparently buried there more than 200 years ago.
The remains of the 30ft length of a wood-hulled vessel were found when workers excavating the site, where a new World Trade Centre is being built, hit a row of wood timbers, The New York Times reported.'
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...
Interesting article. Thanks for posting it.
In the full article, it says that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries there was cribbing built to extend Manhattan and that the ship may have been deliberately used as fill.
That’s what I was thinking too.
Now if it were 300+ years old, perhaps it carried pirate booty as well. New York at that time was THE port for pirates, even more so than the Carolinas.
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