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STRUCTURAL TIMBER
Unique ID: MAS-F100105
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Published 
These two unidentified timbers measure 790 x 75 x 90 mm and 160 x 100 x 60 mm and were recovered from a boat's trawl nets whilst working out of Newhaven, East Sussex. The small piece shows evidence of a longer period of immersion in terms of abrasion and marine borer damage, though this may also be due to the relative hardness and variety of the two woods, or any treatment that might have been received to protect the timber. Neither timber appears to be of ship related origin, with the larger darker piece looking as if it might have been a post and rail fence board originally, rather than a ship's board or rail. The smaller piece appears to be a fragment of an offcut or discarded section of a larger timber piece.
Class:
ARCHITECTURE
Sub class: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: With finder
Subsequent action after recording: Submitted as wreck to the Receiver of Wreck
Wreck details
Droit number: 223/17
Chronology
Broad period: NINETEENTH CENTURY
Period from: NINETEENTH CENTURY
Period to: MODERN
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Personal details
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Recorded by: A BB
Identified by: A BB
Secondary identifier: V L
Other reference numbers
Droit ID: 223/17
Materials and construction
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ4400
Four figure Latitude: 50.78170298
Four figure longitude: 0.04126088
1:25K map: TQ4400
1:10K map: TQ40SW
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Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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