Unravelling the mysteries of the Solent.
Horace Batchelor
It looks like the pattern of that jumper your auntie knitted you for
Christmas. But this mass of colours is the key to the history of the
Solent and Portsmouth's Stone Age forebears.
This is the seabed off the home of the navy as you have never seen it
before, the result of millions of pounds of hi-tech naval kit.
Aboard HMSL Gleaner, a handful of sailors are delving into the
mysteries of the sea bed, hidden for up to 5,000 years.
On Monday the detailed search begins using robot torpedoes sent off
from Gleaner scurrying around just inches off the seabed with
state-of-the-art kit never tested by the RN before.
The MoD's archaeologists reckon there are 174 objects or items on the
seabed in the two square miles falling within Gleaner's survey –
carried out ahead of massive dredging operations for Portsmouth's
future carriers.
'Of course, everyone knows about Mary Rose, but we think there's a lot
more down there,' said Ian Barnes, archaeologist for military sites.
'There should be aircraft down there, but above all signs of the Stone
Age – plant fossils, tools, signs of life, so we can learn how people
lived then.'
Jackie Skidmore
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I know I'm nit-picking again but could you cite sources please.
MTIA
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Jackie
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend and inside of a dog,
it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx.
Horace Batchelor
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>"Horace Batchelor" <H...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I know I'm nit-picking again but could you cite sources please.
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>MTIA
Not at all I just get a bit lazy...
No problem.
I'll quote sources from now on....
HB.