Archaeologists recovered 275 artifacts from the wreck of a 19th-century ship that sunk in the search for the Northwest Passage:
Archaeologists Recovered 275 Artifacts From the Wreck of a 19th-Century Ship That Sunk in the Search for the Northwest PassageParks Canada Underwater Archaeologist Jonathan Moore observes a washing basin and an officer's bed place on the lower deck of HMS Erebus, September 2022. Photo: Marc-André Bernier, courtesy of Parks Canada.
“HMS Erebus and HMS Terror are some of the best-preserved wooden wrecks in the world,” Parks Canada told Artnet News. “But reduced ice cover and increased sea swells caused by climate change are believed to be accelerating the deterioration.” in September 2014, two years before crews found the Terror 45 miles away. 2022 is only their second season surfacing artifacts from theArctic waters are only suitable for diving during a brief window each year. The Erebus’s first excavation in spring 2015 unearthed a few artifacts, including a cannon and kitchenware. 2016 centered around sample collection. The 2017 excavations were postponed to 2018, due to technical difficulties.
Lieutenant’s epaulettes excavated from a furniture drawer in an officer’s cabin of HMS Erebus, after having been raised to the lab on the barge Qiniqtirjuaq, September 2022. Photo: Charles Dagneau, courtesy of Parks Canada., with a “feather quill pen still tucked inside the cover like a journal that you might write in and put on your bedside table before turning in.”
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