World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
The archaeologists are standing near the end of the ship, but they are not sure if it's the prow or the stern.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
The archaeologists are standing near the end of the ship, but they are not sure if it's the prow or the stern.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
The boat sits 20 to 30 feet below street level, in an area the Port Authority is excavating to build a vehicle screening center for the World Trade Center.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
Workers at the WTC site unearthed a ship from the 18th century while digging near Liberty and Cedar Streets.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
The grain and original color of the wood are beginning to emerge.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
Archaeologists continued documenting the wooden boat Thursday morning.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
The boat sits within a much larger construction site, where work continued on Thursday despite the discovery.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
Workers have to climb this ladder down to the boat, which sits 20 to 30 feet below street level.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
This scrap of shoe leather is one of many discarded objects the archaeologists have pulled from the mud.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
Elizabeth Meade, an archaeologist with AKRF, is part of the team documenting the boat.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
The curved wooden timbers protruding from the mud first caught an archaeologist's eye Tuesday morning.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
The outline of the ship is clearly visible from above.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
A close-up of the ship's wooden beams.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
The Port Authority does not know whether the boat can be removed from the thick mud without crumbling.
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World Trade Center Workers Unearth Part of an 18th Century Ship
The portion of the boat that was discovered is 30 feet long.
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