Treasure and intrigue: scientists unravel story of 1740 Kent shipwreck
Maev Kennedy
Friday 18 August 2017 05.37 EDT
Last modified on Friday 18 August 2017 05.44 EDT
Covered with seaweed, bits of shell and pebbles concreted into lumps of corroded iron, the wooden seaman’s chest from the Dutch East India ship Rooswijk remains tantalisingly locked after almost 300 years. It will take months of conservation work before the archaeologists discover whether it holds some of the silver treasure the ship was carrying, or a long dead sailor’s old socks.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/18/treasure-and-intrigue-scientists-unravel-story-of-1740-kent-shipwreck
