The
pontoon installed above the excavation zone is the relay point between the deposit
and the land base; it is essential for the safety of the divers (in red in the
water). The zone is delimited by fixed triangles with 5m sides (visible in the
picture) that are necessary to identify the vestiges.
Subaquatic
excavations
The
excavation work is done bare-handedly,
without any instruments. All the sediments making up the occupation layers are
carefully collected and then placed in a bucket marked with the layer number
and the number of a small triangle with 1m sides, delimited by strings, in order
to correctly identify its origin in the deposit.
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Under
water...
The
exploitation of a subaquatic archaeological deposit halving:
- Under the water where vestiges and sediments are extracted
- On a ground base where installations allow to sort out, to stand out, restore,
package objects and where put themselves in the net the plans being raised(found)
and the seizure of the data. - sur une base terrestre où des installations
permettent de trier, marquer, restaurer, conditionner les objets et où
se mettent au net les plans relevés et la saisie des données.
On
the ground base...
Reception of buckets full of restes
Sieving
and recovery of the remains
Being put the plans and the statements neatly
