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the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
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sailing was crucial. It was
1:24
a tool of warfare and
1:26
empire of conquest and discovery
1:29
and of course of basic
1:31
travel. The dominant maritime forces
1:33
of the times Spain, Portugal,
1:35
England and Holland all had
1:37
established extensive fleets for trade.
1:39
Merchant ships carried art, textiles,
1:42
currency, and other pressures goods,
1:44
the most valuable of which
1:46
was spice to expand their
1:48
territories and establish. The first
1:50
global trade routes. In
1:55
heavy storms and on unfamiliar
1:57
routes through attack and piracy
2:00
it was incomplete or incorrect
2:02
maps. Vessels were often. Last
2:05
breath and many of them are
2:07
still being. The most famous to
2:09
direct is of course the Mary
2:12
Rose on display in a wonderful
2:14
states is the art museum and
2:16
posting this historic dockyard. but how
2:18
about other rock. From the period.
2:21
His talk about just some
2:23
of them is David Given
2:25
maritime archaeologist and. Also have
2:27
a history of the world
2:29
in twelve shipwrecks. His
2:31
work as a diver has taken
2:33
across would move investigating some of
2:35
the most. fascinating weeks in
2:38
history. David.
2:45
Wilkinson noticed the shooters. Or
2:47
if you superior thank you. I am
2:49
delighted to have a chance to talk
2:52
to you who pick kill brains about
2:54
this fascinating subject. Can you tell me
2:56
First of all, was it means to
2:59
work as a marine archaeologists? What? Can
3:01
we learn from invest the icing a
3:03
shipwreck in the city? You. Will
3:06
See products are first of all
3:08
unique part. shoes off your school
3:10
for it because they're having a
3:12
single mom isn't hard. The Demarco
3:14
very high resolution for it's so
3:16
that be artifacts. Your farms have
3:19
a very close association with each
3:21
other. We treat them are not
3:23
association and they tell us about.
3:25
A particular event which in a
3:28
way of very familiar to us.
3:30
We don't have to work very
3:32
hard to understand what happens with
3:35
a separate from one for some
3:37
really easy sites to understand archaeologically
3:39
and I have this incredible power
3:42
to tell us in great detail
3:44
about that moment in time. And
3:46
for that to be a springboard, For
3:49
looking at all of the other aspects
3:51
of life economic and otherwise which represents
3:53
to the our socks tough one aspect
3:55
of ship a calico as we the
3:57
other one is the difficulty of actually.
4:00
Surfing the sites and sort of
4:02
realizing that potential and that's all
4:04
to do. Of course with challenges
4:06
the works under water which can
4:09
often be extremely difficult and saw
4:11
an archaeologist you have this. Great.
4:14
Adventure and finding separates and investigating
4:16
the sites that offer the challenges.
4:18
for example, time constraints. Because rex
4:20
even relatively shallow often you can
4:22
only spend half an hour or
4:24
forty minutes or an hour on
4:27
them and saw that time. The
4:29
archaeologists would normally have an alarm
4:31
fight for contemplating and thinking about
4:33
what they're looking at. You don't
4:35
really have to wash everything for
4:37
intensive about shipwrecks, the archaeology in
4:39
the history. three hundred and sensors
4:42
and focused. And so is
4:44
investigation. So it's the kind of
4:46
hiding ratcheted up process. You then
4:48
have to hope that all of
4:50
those expenses you have all your
4:52
diving on rak sun during the
4:54
work stays with you. when you
4:56
than spend those weeks and months
4:58
sitting afterwards thinking about what it
5:00
all means and doesn't matter very
5:02
much. where. The zip guns down
5:04
That is one of the things has
5:06
always said about the Mary Rose is
5:09
the fact that the celts of the
5:11
Silent preserves the asked taxes and important
5:13
so what does not need for. Other
5:16
regular texans that's a very good
5:18
points you have some shit generally
5:20
in vehicle was her being battered
5:23
preserves of artifacts. The whole you're
5:25
more likely to get substantial have
5:27
reservations you do with Mary Rose.
5:29
But one of the really fascinating
5:31
aspects of my it's right for
5:33
outset when I began talking the
5:36
student or in the Mediterranean right
5:38
way through to the work that
5:40
I mandatory now with shoes and
5:42
socks off Cornwall insert. Wrecks
5:44
and very shallow water up against
5:47
rocky code so scientists or lines.
5:50
And the most adverse circumstances exposed
5:52
to westerly from the Atlantic huge
5:54
gales and C and C bad
5:57
movement can austin consent pockets of
5:59
extra. The Nation on several direct
6:01
look into recently off with and
6:03
com well that's a very very
6:05
badly smashed up meet up on
6:07
any whole remains and as very
6:09
little obvious coherence in this thread
6:11
of material you know you're looking
6:13
at a separate be taught talk
6:16
about whether you're at one end
6:18
of the simple the other below
6:20
you do get to through the
6:22
circumstances of but see that's poker
6:24
fee and and sedimentation his pockets
6:26
within those sites that extraordinary preservation
6:28
them as you can have organic
6:30
remains. Just as significant as those
6:32
from Mary Rose. So and so
6:34
often an archaeology how things really
6:36
predictable and every rak is worthy
6:38
of the same attention because you
6:41
never really know what you're likely
6:43
to find that there are many,
6:45
many circumstances in which rak that
6:47
seems to have a little potential
6:49
with a bit of investigation to
6:51
produce really sickness since his. I
6:54
must have success And can we
6:56
talk about those center Christian detest
6:58
under This is a much since
7:00
sept them as wrecked off the
7:02
coast as England as and the
7:04
Sun on her maiden voyage and
7:06
sixteen sixty seven would we know
7:08
about the vessel and it's journey
7:10
before the rag. So.
7:12
They started with Excel always
7:15
is nicknamed the Malian Tin
7:17
Rak was rach and sixteen
7:19
Sixty seven. Near. Malian
7:21
on the west coast of the
7:24
Lizard peninsula and the rest was
7:26
discovered in Nice and Sixty Nine
7:28
by a local diver role naval
7:31
officer called Piece of Mcbride who
7:33
was snorkeling along. The coast is
7:35
very shallow and he rounded a
7:38
corner of dramatic rocky conflict town.
7:40
And those cannons to house and
7:42
a blister on the sea birds
7:45
and that glitters turned out to
7:47
be thousands of clothing pens with
7:49
the come from Amsterdam. And
7:52
these of course of that period
7:54
were items have considerable value, all
7:56
handmade and so it got that
7:58
nickname and his research. Don't
8:01
worry pinpointed, it's A does
8:03
she Really as we thought
8:05
it was Huge Stella which
8:07
was the Janna Wheeze fun
8:09
dead cert built in Amsterdam
8:12
and sixteen Sixty Five Sixty
8:14
six. very lavishly funded, built
8:16
probably. Said. The same
8:18
standards even in the same ship
8:20
yards as the.is sentiment of the
8:22
parents are very grand vessel designs
8:25
to the transport goods from Amsterdam
8:27
down to Spain and then into
8:29
the Mediterranean that ought to Recently
8:31
caught up here to China. We
8:33
were very big high as an
8:35
international trade and night in fact
8:37
had quite a lot of their
8:39
vessels built. Enough says I'm so
8:41
we know from the documentary rattled
8:43
more and more about the said
8:45
She was very well appointed she
8:48
had forty eight guns were to
8:50
in Imax third pic of the
8:52
water for the period and we
8:54
have to remember that that science.
8:56
Fiction: Sixty Seven was still the Anglo
8:58
Dutch war and any much him and
9:01
going venturing out that onto the Tomlin
9:03
beyond have to be on because of
9:05
the possibility of being attacked and taken
9:08
as a prize and then they have
9:10
to also. Confront. The pirates
9:12
of the Barbary coast of North
9:14
Africa from artifacts and she would
9:17
have looked at us like a
9:19
warship but she was in fact
9:21
much and ship and does just
9:23
amazingly rich eisen rich history. the
9:25
excavation produced. A. Fantastic range
9:28
of materials including raw materials
9:30
that we're letting guts and
9:32
copper and get satellite consignment
9:34
of iron with said corroded
9:36
and created a kind of
9:38
granite hot mouse. Over the
9:41
site and beneath us a lot of. Very.
9:43
High on facts were preserved. Comprising.
9:46
Both other types of cargo
9:48
materials and also set bought
9:51
equipment and personal belongings and
9:53
that evidence has been complimented
9:55
by some fascinating documentary evidence
9:58
from the national Law. Those
10:00
are the results of the fact that
10:02
another ship from Amsterdam bill to the
10:04
same time you could almost call her
10:07
sister said called the Abraham sacrifice had
10:09
left Amsterdam also that summer and Sixty
10:11
six you some but see had in
10:14
fact been captured by the English intention
10:16
of the primaries and as a result
10:18
the battle of her papers that ended
10:20
up in the Price Titles collection in
10:23
the Admiralty, Potus and the National Archives
10:25
and what they so is that many
10:27
of the consignments of is to sit.
10:30
Through split between them and that's
10:32
allowed me on discovering this material
10:34
to reconstruct club lot about the
10:36
more personable materials on a such
10:39
a crucifix stella because I now
10:41
know that there was split with
10:43
consignments that were recorded. And
10:45
or in that this great archive a
10:48
documentary material and and then I saw
10:50
I saw the other ships to the
10:52
Abraham sacrifice so it's a wonderful correlation
10:55
those really rich documentary evidence which is
10:57
not always easy to come by. even
10:59
so relatively recently saw it wrecks and
11:02
it's very rich archaeological site so it's
11:04
contents all manner of interesting. Ah fuck.
11:07
Explained. Me: how you stick
11:09
it out that one was associated
11:11
with the other. How do you
11:13
concerns the items? Tim: Assassin like
11:15
that. Well. At the
11:17
site itself though we're records
11:20
festival from sixteen sixty seven
11:22
sixty eight in Cornwall of
11:24
ships that had come ashore
11:26
because of cause those great
11:28
interest in salvage. And
11:30
salvage was a memorial rights and
11:32
they a crown would also be
11:34
interested basically in the more lucrative
11:37
rak and as a result of
11:39
that is quite a bit of
11:41
documentary evidence because to sit through
11:43
kind of saw legal proceedings and
11:45
wednesday those targets began researching the
11:47
site that found are easily able
11:49
to narrow it down. To. A
11:52
couple of clear possibilities. a very
11:54
wonderful set of finds was made
11:56
on the Rack which thought about
11:58
Prozac the fantastic things neither. Merchant
12:00
Wage and they were stuck with
12:02
the days of the regulation authority
12:04
in Amsterdam who had issued them.
12:06
And these weights have a final
12:08
days of sixteen: Sixty five, Sixty
12:11
Six and the ship was made
12:13
in that year eclipse in that
12:15
you're wrecking the following year. A
12:17
not really pinned the whole thing down
12:19
because those with no other possibility for
12:21
a ship that looks like this that
12:23
we knew from the other artefacts had
12:25
come from Amsterdam so that was the
12:28
way that the ship was most definitively
12:30
that and size and then in a
12:32
documentary I target but let's leave the
12:34
recording of the since Nine alongside Out
12:36
of the Other Side and A Sweet
12:38
Tooth cartoons as well. so I know
12:40
that the name of the cops and
12:42
of the consequences he castello called Lorenzo
12:44
is the side man who spends than
12:46
the price tag that is the captain
12:48
of the ship that split it's cargo
12:50
with the one that was taken a
12:52
surprise saw everything all kind of ads
12:54
together to give just about a hundred
12:56
percent certainty of it as shows that
12:58
the said. I use
13:01
ties to that said passengers
13:03
and he describes your first
13:05
glimpse of the sent as
13:08
seeing the seabed sparkling with
13:10
goals skinny tightly soon the
13:13
extensive. That first I thought did he says.
13:15
Well. What I decided to do
13:17
and assists in two thousand a chain.
13:19
I'd known about this right because of
13:21
have been discovered by both. Not Sixty
13:24
Nine, but the accounts that we've been
13:26
told were the. Not only had it
13:28
been. Quite. Sensibly excavated that
13:30
also that treasure hunters the come
13:32
to the size and they do
13:34
it's explosives and I brought down
13:36
some of the adjacent cliffs and
13:38
covered part of the right blocking
13:40
it's and meaning that the single
13:42
another material that normally shifted to
13:44
and fro of the site was
13:46
permanently barriers and so he decided
13:48
it really wasn't worth looking at.
13:50
However, I changed my mind and
13:52
on one very fine Sonny Dykes
13:54
snorkeled out from nearby Color and
13:56
Cove which says half an hour
13:58
away. And. Slam into
14:00
this little golly with is great
14:03
plus looming above me call Poleglass.
14:05
I knew the rec flaws and
14:07
other canaan. Suez. I. Swam over
14:09
the past gated rock where the explosive
14:11
said throat on the close and just
14:14
beyond that I did start to see
14:16
diary eroded cannon poking out of the
14:18
sediment not are concerned or along the
14:20
subtle in that opened up with us
14:23
described as being like her cathedral space
14:25
and a lot of the assets we
14:27
sounds. Probably scrap metal
14:29
church on fact so there's a
14:31
lot of candelabra. Six other things
14:34
was may have been taken from
14:36
churches catholic churches in the seventeenth
14:38
century and because of all the
14:40
religious material it has his son
14:42
orator at the site and if
14:44
you go into it and drop
14:46
pounds the see that as a
14:48
cop it has. it's kind of
14:50
nice like feals her it but
14:52
what was so exciting was seeing
14:54
on one side of the size
14:57
that the single hot and facts
14:59
sisters. Revealing. This concrete
15:01
is mass I call it was
15:03
caused by the thera material and
15:06
nine and gets compacting and server
15:08
corroded mass. An embedded within that
15:10
were thousands of clothing pens which
15:12
look like fault and cemented in
15:15
the sunlight and other artifacts of
15:17
brass some of which were those
15:19
search accoutrements as if Manson and
15:22
so assuming down on is very
15:24
sunny day only seven or eight
15:26
me says. Onto. The
15:28
field and and this the the simmering fair
15:31
to fight coming down on sewer grate treasure
15:33
rak which of course that archaeological and circumstances
15:35
that me is. See. Gonna
15:37
censor foot the cart and
15:39
was and what survives that
15:42
I wasn't nervous. you have
15:44
any sense of what has
15:46
not survived and I'm thinking
15:48
wondering about leather. Was.
15:50
At ease find that is
15:53
what has not been salvaged
15:55
by previous generations. And if
15:57
the raw. Materials that just would
15:59
not. I have to drive the passage
16:01
of time. Absolutely so.
16:03
One of the very important benefits
16:06
for good rich, documentary or trial
16:08
based. We have his foot it
16:10
lists for us exactly what you
16:13
suggest which is very large quantity
16:15
of material that a set of
16:18
this nature would have been carrying
16:20
which is perishable and we know
16:22
in this case but it included
16:25
cinnamon and clothes and pepper and
16:27
other spices and this is really
16:30
fascinating because of course. Those.
16:32
With a great riches broth hotness
16:34
time by the Dutch East India
16:36
Company. To answer is i'm from.
16:39
The. Far east from Indonesia and
16:41
from India and fee for
16:43
than being sold and transported
16:45
out from Amsterdam. onset such
16:47
as that sounds acoustic stellar.
16:49
So her greatest wealth in
16:51
her cargo was undoubtedly and
16:53
facts and bales of very
16:55
very valuable spices which were
16:58
heading off to Spain. And
17:00
to a Soviet of course all of
17:02
those gone interestingly in some of the
17:04
records of the salvage time that one
17:07
recalled laments the fact that quite a
17:09
lot of the stuff the been brought
17:11
to saw and was just rotting away
17:13
because nobody really knew what to do
17:16
with it. but it's poignant because that
17:18
would have been the greatest loss and
17:20
value in the said she was also
17:23
carrying Russian hides was interesting for these
17:25
a Russian cow hides which are also
17:27
great value so there's a lot of
17:29
material was reconstituted. The greatest
17:32
value. And the greatest
17:34
bulk of the cargo which has
17:36
gone we know off though the
17:38
attempts were made at the time
17:40
and subsequently to salvage inside and
17:43
this before. Daughter. Got involved. I'm
17:45
saying that sell enough that you could see
17:47
probably the rak on the seabed and you
17:49
to put on tongs and even free died
17:52
down and bring things that Sun's out
17:54
of. The people would have got everything I
17:56
possibly could out of it, but not all
17:58
events and the controversial. Women Fighting Family
18:01
the quite surprisingly large sum of it's
18:03
a large amount of quite valuable Missouri
18:05
which because people would have jumpsuit taking
18:07
as they could have salvaged that time.
18:10
Is it says that the
18:12
let some last works of
18:14
Rembrandt. Onboard. Yeah, now
18:16
this is the really amazing
18:18
story on a Sunny has
18:20
come to light very recently.
18:22
this in two thousand and
18:24
six researchers in China were
18:27
looking at the archives of
18:29
City Sally family discovered an
18:31
extraordinary correspondence between Francesco family
18:33
who was a wealthy member
18:35
The family at the time
18:37
and his agents in Amsterdam
18:39
and the state is from.
18:42
The. Time of the building of
18:44
the Sat across the Casella
18:46
because Folly had a financial
18:48
stake in Knots Enterprise and
18:50
lots of correspondents or field
18:53
was that he had instructed
18:55
his agents and also the
18:57
captain of the zip that
18:59
was being built two cats
19:01
a prankster called Rembrandt's to
19:03
produce too much l a
19:05
two smaller versions of paintings
19:08
with he wanted put in
19:10
his chapel in Genoa. And
19:13
the name of those ships caption was
19:15
Lorenzo the the Auto which isn't I'm
19:17
that we already knew to be in
19:19
the cops and of the photography Stellar!
19:22
And so suddenly when I saw this.
19:24
And I first came across this
19:26
just a couple of years ago
19:28
and then began researching further. It
19:30
became clearer and clearer as made that
19:33
these two paintings is Rembrandt heart
19:35
of a lot of procrastination. Much
19:38
more money and recruiting
19:40
the correspondence about. How
19:42
as is usual with Pine says
19:44
he was unpredictable and somebody you
19:46
can't rely on. Eventually, he did
19:48
produce his paintings and sixteen, sixty
19:50
Seven and I were laden on
19:52
the ship. And then they disappear
19:55
from history. And when I saw that,
19:57
I realize that. They. Must have
19:59
been lost. In. A wreck of
20:01
a close to Cornwall and that just
20:03
talking about this cutters mystical feeling of
20:05
swimming and so that size of the
20:07
imagining what lies that what was once
20:09
they're that the had been is to
20:12
paintings was even though they were much
20:14
alley would have been very high quality
20:16
paintings I would have been the size
20:18
of a series of paintings and that
20:20
they weren't the full size tidings that
20:22
he would have wanted in his topple
20:24
they would have been the in a
20:26
remarkable works of art and at among
20:28
really the great last Let's. Run from
20:31
So does the only time at it
20:33
as an ignorant football for the record
20:35
realizing as something of that kind of
20:37
extraordinary artistic and cultural interests that had
20:39
once been on the ship of it
20:41
came into this whole where I've been
20:44
diving. I don't think we'll find any
20:46
evidence of it but so slightly possible
20:48
There might be a little brass plaque
20:50
was Rembrandt's name on it down there
20:52
but just knowing it was out of
20:54
fuses for the homeless emotional power of
20:57
a wreck lightness. Absolutely.
20:59
And there's no chance that some
21:01
and pricing conus diver took them
21:03
off and that the manor house
21:05
and in a few years. Time.
21:07
Will discover them are so think so
21:10
because I think I wouldn't really have
21:12
lasted very long underwater. It slightly possible
21:14
that the the out of the we
21:17
know survived the rak conceivably could as
21:19
the last minute taken these with him
21:21
along with other valuable items that fairly
21:23
unlikely because people don't tend to do
21:26
that in separate My really looking out
21:28
for themselves, I think they would have
21:30
gone down with the seven sixteen, sixty
21:32
seven rest. Very interesting timing. rubber five
21:35
could be with someone in the doldrums
21:37
and. It's possible that this
21:39
commission. By. Sally by
21:41
this wealthy Chinese family. Is
21:44
something he might have seen as to solve
21:46
I said you know it could have led
21:48
many more similar commission search for missing for
21:50
the south. Undoubtedly it's loss would have been
21:53
a blow to him but he was very
21:55
resilient and carried on for do from some
21:57
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Let me ask is that a
23:32
couple of other rex is been
23:34
investigating and says within center and
23:36
tenure the sentence and he is.
23:38
This is an earlier subsisting twenty
23:40
seven. What? p Tell her that
23:42
the sith it's journey in his
23:44
on board. So son
23:46
since I mean sometimes on it
23:49
was a Portuguese carrots and see
23:51
rats in fifteen twenty seven off
23:53
gun wallow. So we're not very
23:55
far north of the size of
23:57
the side of the city. Hello
24:00
and in very very solid
24:02
was up against the great
24:04
stretch of fans of the
24:06
liver cancer. The goes as
24:08
far as of Levin. Several
24:10
kilometers wearing shoes offer a
24:12
very richly appointed ship. She
24:14
was on by things on
24:16
the third of Portugal and
24:18
it's thought that she may
24:20
have been carrying the diary
24:22
of his bride Catherine taking
24:24
it from Lisbon to answer
24:26
that because concerns part of
24:28
the Habsburg family. Base in
24:30
the Netherlands. The sip was
24:32
like the. Sensibly
24:35
salvaged at the time so in
24:37
the same way that clyde lot
24:39
of breath lot of it from
24:41
the period but again quite a
24:43
lot of it remained in situ
24:45
when it was rediscovered and as
24:48
recently as much as he won
24:50
by local tigers. Results of a
24:52
been sites copper ingot being discovered
24:54
in the sand on the shoreline
24:56
and his subsequent diving on the
24:58
sides produce name or goes and
25:00
gets on a silver and goods
25:03
are lots of handle six and
25:05
another are facts. It's a frustrating
25:07
site because it's in first solo
25:09
was out that it's often completely
25:11
buried in fans and other thing
25:13
earlier. It's one of those sites
25:15
which seems very on promising at
25:18
the outset because it's all spread
25:20
out and strewn over. Results very
25:22
destructive reckon process but unquestionably there
25:24
is a lot more than a
25:26
to be recovered and like has
25:28
a sorry I'm licensee. From Historic
25:30
England's because this is a protected rak
25:33
is to got there and monetarism surveyors
25:35
and every time I go out folk
25:37
that more of it will be revealed
25:40
that the there will be some of
25:42
these goalies on the rec that like
25:44
insane more expensive organic finds. It's a
25:47
very very interesting dates because Fifteen Twenty
25:49
Seven is very early as being before
25:51
the Mary Rose was so rak and
25:54
becomes Portuguese. This is a set which
25:56
is representative of the great Portuguese as
25:58
a discovery. so. The anything that
26:01
can be found out about sit
26:03
the that period has that extra
26:05
he significance of the time. This
26:07
is hop cause of all the
26:09
great exploration of the indies, Magellan
26:11
going and circumnavigated world and exactly
26:13
was period So there's a very
26:16
rich historical backdrop to erect likeness
26:18
an intensification whole thing as we
26:20
thought though that more of it
26:22
will be revealed and future. And
26:25
do you have a documentary towel
26:27
for their sentence? knee? Yes
26:30
we do because of it's significance of
26:32
the royal shirt into the probability that
26:35
it's carrying the or what kind of
26:37
our a of John's Queen to be.
26:39
There is a losses of the much
26:42
material everyday got involved because it seems
26:44
that John and maiden treated for him
26:46
to have the cargo return to him
26:49
father was a forty saw trying to
26:51
convene which to focus on the rack
26:53
whether or not any of the salvage
26:56
material did actually make his whereabouts toilets
26:58
who it up know. What
27:00
we do know is that it
27:02
did in rich several local people
27:04
as often happens with brought some
27:06
of these include some of the
27:08
bus home families and Com or
27:10
the Godolphin for example The Sun
27:12
all than said that Michael's mad
27:14
too many of these landed families
27:16
in Cornwall who were coastal elicited
27:18
from Rak because of the next
27:20
claim an oral rice on rec
27:22
that was fluster saw for it's
27:24
been a significant factor in the
27:26
corners economy at that level of
27:28
course. But another aspect which
27:31
really interest me with a threat
27:33
to search for local people anything
27:35
coming off the rack and we
27:37
know the strike was research on
27:39
times would be potentially of great
27:42
economic significance as well people living
27:44
in our hands, mouth and for
27:46
saying and small scale agriculture and
27:48
he's the kind of was so
27:50
if you like of cultural material
27:52
reaches his sword from foreign parts
27:55
as a result of ah fuck
27:57
son from It's Heroes being taken.
27:59
Up by. That wealthy local people but
28:01
all manner of others who would have
28:03
benefited from it. So in that sense
28:05
wrecks and wrecking has a significant part
28:07
you play any economics if you like
28:09
of reasons were ships were rats, much
28:11
thought and not something that you know
28:13
to be traced with more recent rak
28:15
especially in Cornwall. Evil Sons
28:17
incidences. Another read that this one
28:19
is a sip. Of unknown
28:21
origin. Yet you can face
28:24
hit to tell me about this reckon how
28:26
at least a says. So. The
28:28
other rak of potential to the
28:30
date is now going further south
28:32
on the peninsula so close to
28:34
where the for suddenly for having
28:37
them what sticks out just to
28:39
fight finance pose as many people
28:41
will have businesses and this is
28:43
it a political real trouble than
28:45
it's the most dramatic of all
28:47
of the threats that we've talked
28:49
about because it's such under whose
28:51
parents were very difficult place to
28:54
got so it's a long way
28:56
off from any place that you.
28:58
Can get in from the sort of
29:00
from accurate it's completely exposed to violence
29:02
southwesterly storms more often than not a
29:05
diving other side his country. Inconceivable. Over
29:07
the last seven months has not been
29:09
a single day where we should consider
29:12
going outside it's been so behind, but
29:14
this is a really amazing sight. It
29:16
was also found by locals I was
29:19
in. The. Sixties, a nice
29:21
and sixty nine of the kind
29:23
of halcyon period of rak discovery
29:25
of people were learning to die
29:27
than getting out of exploring. So
29:29
many of these threats that were
29:32
talking about was found innocent that
29:34
time and again it was a
29:36
very i'm incoherence rak. There was
29:38
no fall off remains that suggested
29:40
it hurts the said for and
29:42
effects. So in a month gullies
29:44
on sunday sea floor below the
29:47
cliff thought a sort of finding
29:49
hundreds and hundreds. Then thousands
29:51
of silver Spanish pieces of
29:53
eight. So this is a
29:55
true treasure rak. Really fascinating
29:58
because they all kinds. The
30:00
on Spanish America or from
30:02
Spain for the majority of
30:04
the coins were from Mexico
30:06
station to the final two
30:08
decades of the sixteenth century
30:10
and just answered the seventeenth
30:12
century. There. Are also cordless
30:14
number from fatality Now this
30:16
was the single silverman said.
30:18
And what's not Bolivia which
30:21
produced huge amounts of silver?
30:23
Or. That. Was mentored into
30:25
clients' the status and are also some
30:27
coins that had been answered in Seville
30:29
another places in Spain. We
30:32
have no idea of the name
30:34
of the shirt all where she
30:37
was hiding or why she had
30:39
all these coins on board is
30:41
a huge mystery. there are other
30:44
our sights sounds beautiful have navigational
30:46
divided so summer months of the
30:48
Mary Rose though the gunners tally
30:50
stickers that as investments deck pottering
30:53
goods so again. Probably a ship
30:55
that it had other cargo on board
30:57
that his parish so might have been
31:00
salvaged that the time most of the
31:02
Koreans were sold at the time
31:04
in. this isn't the. Seventies.
31:06
And eighties when it was still
31:08
possible to do that. The divers
31:10
who investigated thought racking up as
31:13
long as coast were for the
31:15
most part amateurs and they were
31:17
very admirable groups of people because
31:19
they were really. Learning what
31:21
they were doing, At. A
31:23
time when the wasn't really rough it's
31:26
guidance yet on how to do my
31:28
are some articles were investigation they were
31:30
often self thoughts very very good historians
31:33
and and this case that artists who
31:35
study distracted do quite a bit of
31:37
research on the coins and found the
31:39
attribution of many of them and it's
31:42
to be hopes in future that and
31:44
investors and then might produce more that
31:46
could be numismatic we studied but even
31:49
so it's the really remarkable sign for
31:51
the period and of all. The Rec
31:53
foot I saw it on round
31:55
the discipline and services to one
31:57
would probably count the most people's
32:00
mind as a profit from the
32:02
Rec are handled these clients and
32:04
they are the most amazing things.
32:06
I mean they're great has he
32:08
loves to silver very crudely embellished
32:10
with the declaration that south the
32:12
origin and that denomination and I
32:14
really athlete rattle and saw that
32:16
amazing period where the Spanish were
32:18
in case unfortunately in such destruction
32:20
and the Americans but we're also
32:22
finding a lynching silver which tool
32:24
their own activities back in Europe.
32:27
I'm Linda. Started by the size of
32:29
that all three of these rocks. Were
32:31
Rex. Austin isn't much as I mean
32:34
isn't easy for past the well. If
32:36
anyone wants to visitors it's gonna that
32:38
he could essential my son planet but
32:40
apparently not good as your six. So
32:42
what is it They southwest storms you
32:44
mention? What is it about the lizard?
32:46
That means that we have seventy Rex
32:48
their. Yeah, so if you
32:51
look at the market sticks out like that,
32:53
he'll have a high heeled boots into the
32:55
verge of the English Channel. beginning of the
32:57
Alonso action. The whole of the west side.
32:59
And the points itself. Is
33:02
completely exposed as you say to
33:04
the prevailing southwest delays and these
33:07
are always there over the winter
33:09
months and some Us as is
33:11
this your they carry on. Beyond
33:13
that so sits traveling outward bound
33:16
from for example Portsmouth, A London
33:18
or Us to them. Are
33:21
going to travel into the T V
33:23
for hims is there are lucky they'll
33:25
try to avoid them but variously it's
33:27
those ships that are outward bound and
33:30
get blown back into the lizard peninsula
33:32
so they do the very best to
33:34
avoid is hop nice but it does
33:36
and as soon as they. Are
33:39
being blown in that direction of a
33:41
little of silence of do about it
33:43
really because once a sort of reach
33:45
beyond the point of no return with
33:47
a cop rounds of points and fun
33:49
so skewed back in Falmouth, aw Plymouth
33:51
then they're really terms and are very
33:53
few places along the whole stretch of
33:55
the west side of the Lizard where
33:57
you can find any how of shelter.
34:00
So often the tragedy to be suits
34:02
is that many them were destroyed and
34:04
tude gales but not all of them
34:06
and they're very often would have been
34:08
people fully but solely being blown and
34:10
saw knowing that there was nothing they
34:12
can do about it. Watching. The
34:14
saw get closer and closer. And
34:16
then being rats against the cliffs somewhere where
34:19
those is really very little chance of
34:21
escape for the bible. And so there's a
34:23
lot of human tragedy and this and then
34:25
a post and the other direction ships
34:27
coming in from the Atlantic as well. How
34:30
to act of the same risk of the
34:32
Westerlies which they were using to travel
34:34
in the direction they wanted. Instead.
34:36
Blowing them a little bit too much
34:38
to the northwest and answer that cause
34:41
such a real a trap for shirts
34:43
and this carried on right way through
34:45
and so. The. End of Edge
34:47
sale and in beyond that in our
34:49
own steamship. Rak suspended delivered from as
34:52
one from the nineteen thirties so is
34:54
continue to be a danger. There is
34:56
another feature, the lizard right off the
34:58
point which is the rather horrifying race
35:00
that stick out like dragon's teeth of
35:02
the end of the Peninsular and especially
35:05
in fog. Ships could think they'd cleared
35:07
the point but I haven't and they
35:09
end up coming up against one of
35:11
these rocks which if you try navigating
35:13
through them a terrifying they come and
35:16
go with. The tide and they are
35:18
often just a while since I was very
35:20
very dangerous place not what of years While.
35:23
So when you're dealing with
35:25
he said these are science
35:27
not only off extraordinary remains
35:30
in the homes of since
35:32
that they are graveyard. Some
35:34
I quite often. Yes,
35:37
Very very often. and it's something
35:39
which I think you're always concert
35:41
thought as it's either that thing
35:43
with talking about the beginning of
35:46
the heightened sensitivity and the intensity
35:48
of diving and the high resolution
35:50
of erection and all that. Another
35:52
aspect there is that you're dealing
35:55
with places where people often died
35:57
violently and suddenly and unexpectedly. There's
36:00
often a almost palpable sense about
36:02
with Rags where you you're looking
36:04
at what was left on the
36:06
seabed. At that very moment
36:08
in time and you're looking at sea
36:11
belongings and a fisherman's you people I'd
36:13
say had some of the time after
36:15
using them and I think that gives
36:17
the real point it's use right and
36:19
either pressing the set lot of respect
36:21
as well because I mean these are
36:24
even if there are no remains to
36:26
be found our graves of cause some
36:28
search more recently or a war graves
36:30
and up for taxes for that reason
36:32
as well but I think it would
36:34
be very unusual sight of either who
36:37
was not. Cognizance of this and didn't
36:39
sometimes pause joined the dies of you
36:41
swim down into the blue dots and
36:43
know that there is a track down
36:45
there that people died in the water
36:48
your and now he didn't pause and
36:50
possibly have second thoughts when at least
36:52
sort of feel in a sense of
36:54
respect of a little bit of the
36:56
sheer as well the people must have
36:58
felt too. So yeah I'm always very
37:00
aware of the sun on the sides
37:03
with i've on. Not. On.
37:05
A testy of the Mary Rose
37:07
and asking? a sinister fantastic museum.
37:10
It's incredible collapse in this objects
37:12
and the to to period. And
37:14
of course we have this up
37:16
itself. And forty plus years ago
37:18
when it was raised, that was
37:21
the thing to do. I wanted
37:23
to ask what maritime offsides he
37:25
now says about Sit Rex. Do
37:27
you consider raising them all? Is
37:30
it best to leave and them
37:32
things. The. Prevailing philosophy
37:34
which is a very practical one
37:36
is preservation answer to so this
37:39
is the i would say the
37:41
main directly behind the way the
37:43
most smart on archaeologists will approach
37:45
sites suddenly and Uk was is
37:48
now and the Mary Rose story
37:50
really in many ways illustrates why
37:52
that is the case because on
37:54
the what had of if you
37:57
have the marvelous discovery and found
37:59
you have a breaking the hall
38:01
and how that can rich people
38:03
are deciding that period of absolutely
38:06
was during but the expense of
38:08
efforts and the ongoing conservationists use.
38:11
It as an immense Enterprises Nets
38:13
fan even just raising a few
38:15
tendency to have a responsibility to
38:17
pluto same thing with them and
38:19
go through the same process and
38:21
saw the issue really is it's
38:23
not, it's simply a matter of
38:25
expenses and conservation. It's matter of
38:27
whether cats and weather for so
38:29
there's no National Museum of Separate
38:31
Archaeology and Britain has no one
38:33
place to which. Finds
38:35
that might come from rats
38:37
can be taken but it's
38:39
also actually a procedural issues
38:42
through archaeology that nowadays we
38:44
can record thing so well.
38:46
Underwater the techniques the recording
38:48
a summer more sophisticated and
38:50
exciting the needs to be
38:53
that the points of actually
38:55
raising material is reduce as
38:57
well as an argument in
38:59
that sense. What about in
39:01
more effort to finding ways
39:03
of remotely survey remotely recording
39:05
Opposite from censored. The conundrum
39:08
arises with rak says are
39:10
exposed to the elements or
39:12
to elicit salvage where does
39:14
the danger of thera materials.
39:16
Exposed and readily removable the they might
39:18
be damaged or last and those sort
39:21
of issues I think that's has to
39:23
be addressed side by side. all of
39:25
the rak like have died on that
39:27
of protect you plight in theory are
39:29
exposed to lose hang rested announcer have
39:32
had silver coins on such as a
39:34
real contract I think that's a sort
39:36
of fairly rare plants nowadays but it
39:38
was an your back in the time
39:40
when these types of us been discovered
39:43
in the sixties and seventies. As a
39:45
kind of ethical issue in archaeology. Of
39:47
not as to whether to lease things as
39:49
they are. And it's not just
39:51
the future generations I find out of
39:53
disparate him myself in i think that
39:55
I want so us to know what
39:57
we can about archaeology. I don't want.
40:00
The leaving at society be further escalation
40:02
future when I can preserve things better
40:04
I was like a positive attitude which
40:06
is the in ah yes we can
40:09
leasing sunsets you bit less do everything
40:11
we can serve record them as well
40:13
as we hadn't even that sciences and
40:16
photography like and was photography cinematography and
40:18
the times I've been us either. Of.
40:21
Moves us rarely from very limited
40:23
ability to to image rates to
40:25
the time from five years ago
40:27
were almost every time goes down
40:29
with a pretty good Tamra now
40:31
and so Thera Masses imagery being
40:33
produced for some of the racks
40:35
we've been talking about, and much
40:38
of the work that we've been
40:40
doing really has been capturing that
40:42
imagery and and recording those sites.
40:44
And I think that's probably the
40:46
biggest change in my lifetime and
40:48
what's been possible under water and.
40:50
Some sort of techniques and production
40:53
of opens up a way of
40:55
experiencing racks that doesn't require you
40:57
to hasta raise them into listener
40:59
material because you get such wonderful
41:01
impressions of them from other was
41:03
photographs and moving images you have.
41:06
An. Interesting us upcoming. Didn't you say
41:08
he pulled friends? Tell me that as.
41:11
Well there is one of the
41:13
sable rak of the lizard tonnage
41:15
you're gonna as blunt with started
41:17
to done for decades as the
41:19
other problems prize and this is
41:21
one of the shirts captured by
41:23
George Clifford. Of Cumberland
41:25
on one of his expeditions
41:27
against Spanish to the Azores.
41:30
And further afield and through the
41:32
caravan as well. And and fifty
41:34
eighty nine one of the sits
41:37
the cops said which is such
41:39
that Bin Laden with stolen silver
41:41
records and mounts by we don't
41:43
know where but it's very possible
41:45
that it would wreck. You can
41:48
stay close of the lizard because
41:50
that's where sit for blown into
41:52
and there is a one size
41:54
and particular one cannon rec and
41:57
rochelle a water which we think
41:59
might. The B B S lack
42:01
the might not be but it's was
42:03
investigation and that's all I can say
42:05
about a moment but it is the
42:07
one big prize Was has yet to
42:10
be discovered in Wrexham the of the
42:12
state rains a monster anyway off lizard
42:14
so watch this space and will see
42:16
what the rises if we're able to
42:18
gas and as the site is a
42:20
uncovered and we can do some recording
42:22
of it. Has access and
42:25
my sister. Since then you have
42:27
send your life will much as
42:29
well as leading expeditions all over
42:31
the wound. What is it about
42:33
this and continues to fascinate you?
42:35
And why do you think shipwrecks
42:37
hold such a special place in
42:40
the popular imagination? I think
42:42
separate a very beguiling fights because
42:44
as the resolution again the extreme
42:46
precision with which you can know
42:48
about the events that cause the
42:50
rack and what the people on
42:52
this isn't what they're doing, it's
42:54
almost as this other phenomena direct
42:56
draws space and time into it
42:58
and when I was writing my
43:01
book of really felt this with
43:03
the rec said i'd talking focus
43:05
on that isn't Do or Max
43:07
Baucus a catalogue sites as you
43:09
can do any other awful school
43:11
books. But what makes it work
43:13
is to see those sites the springboard
43:15
for drawing in history and everything else
43:18
going on at the time. And Rex
43:20
a very much like that because they
43:22
have this great precision. But.
43:25
In a way that very precision allows you
43:27
to fuse latitudes of imagination than and of
43:29
sort of his sort of brought in the
43:31
way that you look at even spring from
43:34
rats. Talking about the people are on the
43:36
shirts, the cargo, the our sights, how they
43:38
were made. You can as in the case
43:40
of the Mary Rose you can talk about
43:43
the big sugars of history like hundred gates,
43:45
you know who stepped on board the Mary
43:47
Rose. You can talk about the common silos
43:49
and people who are otherwise on recorded history
43:52
so it's great powerful next sources of history
43:54
and I. Think afflict continually Kids: Rex
43:56
have any period but in any place
43:58
great Him okay did not pose a
44:01
fast forward. A guy tries demonstrating the
44:03
book as nineteenth and twentieth centuries well
44:05
when we think everything is that of
44:07
article is automatic recorded. but the nature
44:10
of Rex transcends thought because there's a
44:12
kind of power to the imagination and
44:14
archaeological sites even if they off period
44:16
such the Second world war where we
44:19
have such a lot of documentary evidence
44:21
and that almost within living memory of
44:23
well that rak still have a great
44:25
deal of the most his power for
44:28
us but some me I'm I think
44:30
I discovered when I was a child
44:32
a fascination with and what a discovery
44:34
I grew up at the time most
44:37
cops and Cousteau. It just hooked me
44:39
and I'd still very fortunate that I
44:41
was able to. Make. A
44:43
career have it both instances separate
44:45
archaeology and and often times in
44:47
a way that. I've. Been able
44:50
to present hit both infects and none
44:52
are now a nonfiction as well and
44:54
it's a bit addictive So I mean
44:56
once you've made a few discoveries he
44:58
wanted got make more and you know
45:00
it's the next rak just behind the
45:02
next in a wreath that there is
45:04
to be discovered there's always must be
45:07
found And I think that the other
45:09
thing is that really have a costly
45:11
writing the book is that your think
45:13
you know more or less things but
45:15
when you themselves into the sites that
45:17
you think you know really. Well you
45:19
just find out such lot more to
45:21
do involved with. You know it's a
45:24
historian or was archaeologists your perspective kinds
45:26
and also and I know that now
45:28
I see things through a lens very
45:30
different to the one I might have
45:32
had when I started my career and
45:34
that means a whole process of looking
45:36
at Rak even ones that have already
45:38
been found his as an endlessly exciting
45:40
and interesting process and of those more
45:42
history to be drawn into a similar
45:45
stories to be told. Well.
45:47
You have sad your passion
45:49
very convincingly with us and
45:51
anyone who has course that
45:53
must be taught, a caucus,
45:55
a wonderful book, a history
45:57
as the loud and twelve
45:59
separate. The carry on the
46:01
adventure with use. David, Thank you so
46:03
much for your time! This has been
46:05
really fabulous. Thank you very much. For
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