18th century ship discovered under World Trade Center
Some workers excavating at the World Trade Center site discovered a very unusual thing buried on the 11th of September site: the hull of a 32 feet long boat, which is supposed to have been buried in the 18th century.
The archeologists said that the ship might have been used, along with rubble, to fill the land to extend lower Manhattan into the Hudson River. Molly McDonald and A. Michael Pappalardo, two archeologists working on the site of the 11th of September 2001, were there on Tuesday morning when workers uncovered the artifacts. McDonald declared that they saw at first curved timbers that the back digger brought up, continued with the rib of a vessel. They kept on excavating and cleaning it, and in a two day’s time the whole vessel was brought to light.
The two archeologists working for a company hired to document artifacts discovered at the site said that the discovery was very important, but they could not yet determine the age of the ship without further tests. Some timber samples are going to be sent to a laboratory for endocrinology tests that will help establishing the time when the boat was made and a boat specialist will be called at the site location to take a look at the vessel. Besides the boat, in the same area was found an anchor, weighting about 100 pounds, that is supposed to belong to the same ship.
