Project statement and working notes
Creator(s): Centre for Manx Studies
Scope & Content: Field collections
13 11 1993 collection notes PJD – 9 pages (manuscript); 371 sherds and 13 gunflints; MM96-98 to MM96-112.
27 11 1993 collection notes PJD – 2 pages (manuscript); 606 sherds and 12 gunflints; MM98-29 to MM98-40.
10 01 1995 collection notes PJD (just over half page manuscript); 88 sherds; MM98.42 to MM98-48.
20 12 1997 collection notes PJD (c 2 pages of manuscript); 357 sherds and 4 gunflints; MM98-49 to MM98-58.
Notes on gunflints; single page looking at MM2431 and M M5446.
Three pages of handwritten notes analysing the field collections.
Flints and china collection by Zilla Sayle from 01 02 1997 to 16 09 1998; 216 in all.
Excavations on the shore December 1997 to January 1998
A3 1st edition 25” plans to show location of test pits; pencil notes on methodology.
A4 list of concordance between Sites 1 to 16 and Sites A to H (ie Sites 24 to 31).
List of sites photographed; A4 handwritten lined sheet.
List of sites not photographed A4 handwritten lined sheet.
Lists of pottery from sites 1 to 16 and A to H with maximum lengths; 17 A4 lines handwritten sheets.
Six A4 sheets with draft tables of ceramic finds from the test pits.
A3 drawn and inked-up 1st Edition of 25” to show numbered sites and general location.
Density graph of finds from the numbered pits; pencil on tracing paper.
Analysis of finds from Sites A to H (JJW handwriting); 8 x A4 lined sheets.
Museum accessions
One page of earlier accessions of interest typed by JJW; up to 1975.
Summary of PJD accessions, including excavations; 2 A4 typed pages.
Photocopy of 5 A3 pages from the accessions register; MM96-92 to MM96-115.
Photocopies of finds to be photographed by the museum photographer; 14 pages and 12 bags of finds.
Twelve 1:1 drawings of gunflints by S D White; 2 x A4 photocopies.
BAR article
05 01 1998 project summary statement by PJD; half an A4 page.
06 09 1999 copy of paper faxed to Liverpool; 19 typed pages.
Draft figures for the paper; 18 A4 pages:
Figure 1 – Plan to show positions of 10 litre samples on the Pooyll Vaaish shore
Figure 2 – Table to show numbers of ceramic finds by type from each of the 31 ten-litre samples
Figure 3 – Table to summaries quantification of 10 litre sample from Pooyll Vaaish/Scarlett
Table 3 – samples from four “perpendicular” sections, from storm beach to lower beach, showing the quantification of each pottery type presumed to be from the wreck
Figure 4 – Graph to show the quantities of finds spread along the shore
Figure 8 – Types of gunflint recovered from the shore at Pooyll Vaaish
Figure 9 – Table 4: details of ships wrecked on the Scarlett/Pooyll Vaaish shore between 1800-1900
Figure 10 – Plan to show the approximate position of ships wrecked on Scarlett shore between 1800-1900.
Language: English
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: FILE
ID number: MS 14146/24/1
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