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TINA NOTES

Maritime Archaeology Periodical

Karelaj içinde airlift kullanan bir arkeolog.
An archaeologist using Airlift system within the grids.

Kazı alanından çıkarılan bakır tabaklar,
boncuklar ve sikkeler.
Batık alanında bulunan bakır bir tencere. Copper plates, beads and coins removed from the
A copper pot discovered at the site excavation site.

That is why copper utencils, the main cargo of the the excavations, and then removed with the aid of lift-
ship, should have spreaded onto a wider area. The ship- ing balloons following final photo-scan documentation.
wreck is also under the threat of illicit divings, which is Two cannons were lifted for each in 2018 and 2019. In
another possibility for such a wide spread. addition, these activities were monitored on big screens
Several dives were performed to determine the range in the ship, and recorded using two separate ROVs.
of remains, and seven artifacts including two pots, one Recovered artifacts were put in safe boxes, and then
pitcher and four plates were identified. The remains placed in 100% sea water in order to avoid any harm
were removed after their in situ coordinates were ob- from the atmosphere and for restoration work. Preser-
tained, and documented. vation and repair experts carried out mechanical clean-
Part of the excavation team used the air-lift system ing in some of the artifacts during the period they were
while some others were involved in area cleaning and kept in the ship. The artifacts were all delivered to the
magnetometer scans. The artifacts were registered with Directorate of the Alanya Museum after the excava-
appropriate identification numbers, and documented tions, and their desalination process still sontinues in
according to the virtual or physical grid system. Coins the specific pools of the Museum. Following the final
or similar remains that could be easily lost on the sandy photo-scanning activities at the site, all grids, air-lifts,
ground of the sea were daily registered and delivered to safety aqualungs and anchor-chains connected to the
the experts in the Alanya after being removed as well mooring line were removed, and top of the site was
as being marked on the plan. Remaining artifacts were covered until next campaign, which will be held in
kept in their in situ position until the last two days of 2020.
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