For Yous Data - Earthworks Together With Survey Of The Ancient Port Landscape At The Akrotiri-Dreamers Bay

The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications as well as Works announced the completion of the 2018 underwater archaeological mission at the Akrotiri- Dreamer’s Bay ancient port, inwards the Lemesos District. The survey was directed past times staff from the University of Southampton, Centre for Maritime Archaeology, equally component of an ongoing collaborative enquiry projection on the peninsula since 2015 led past times the University of Leicester. The piece of employment was conducted amongst the permission of the Republic of Republic of Cyprus Department of Antiquities as well as the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland Sovereign Base Areas Administration, as well as amongst the back upward as well as assistance of RAF Akrotiri, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation as well as the Western Sovereign Base Area Archaeological Society. Equipment as well as assistance was besides offered from the University of Cyprus, MARELab, the Republic of Cyprus University of Technology, CP Marine Explorations, as well as Kembali Divers. The projection was generously funded past times the Honor Frost Foundation.

View of the earthworks site [Credit: University of Leicester]

The earthworks as well as survey was conducted betwixt 10-24 September 2018 past times a squad of professional person diving maritime archaeologists, students of maritime archaeology, divers, surveyors, as well as terrestrial archaeologists predominantly from Republic of Cyprus as well as the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland who investigated for over 2 weeks, the remains of an ancient breakwater submerged some 1-1.5 to 5m below the H2O inwards Dreamers Bay. The primary objective was to produce upward one's heed its precise role as well as appointment as well as specifically its human relationship amongst the archaeological remains of Roman/early Byzantine appointment investigated inwards previous seasons along the western shores of the bay, equally good equally the ancient cliff-top quarries, which overlook the waters it protected. The overall aim was to build upward a to a greater extent than consummate motion painting of the port equally component of the ancient village of the Akrotiri Peninsula, inside the context of the southern coast of Republic of Cyprus as well as the eastern Mediterranean.

The submerged ancient breakwater extends some 120m offshore. The breakwater had been previously been reported past times a reveal of maritime archaeologists as well as was documented inwards the 1980s. The objective of this survey was to farther define the extent as well as nature of the ancient harbour as well as tape the item of its fundamental features using photogrammetry, inwards club to clarify the method of its original construction as well as its specific purpose. The survey besides examined the breakwater’s northern terminate inwards club to produce upward one's heed if it was originally connected to the province equally it is instantly dislocated past times some 50m.

View of the earthworks site [Credit: University of Leicester]

The photogrammetry was partially successful but express past times the rattling shallow as well as turbulent nature of the H2O over the breakwater although, a comprehensive excogitation of the southern percentage of the characteristic was achieved as well as this information is currently existence processed. The breakwater was besides located inwards infinite using RTK DGPS as well as aspects of its construction were recorded inwards item using photography as well as sketches. It was noted that the characteristic was three, maximum 4 courses deep, along the original trunk of the characteristic upward to c. 120m, as well as that the southern terminate of the breakwater was to a greater extent than dislocated as well as the width inwards this department to a greater extent than extensive.  Also the H2O to the due south of the breakwater was deeper as well as inwards reply to this the courses of construction were to a greater extent than numerous to compensate for increased H2O depths. This raised the query equally to whether the characteristic was inwards fact a breakwater amongst shelter provided along its length inwards its lee or inwards fact a jetty that was primarily accessed via deeper waters to the due south which facilitated the offloading of goods as well as people that were as well as so transported via smaller arts and crafts to the shore.

Further survey piece of employment was besides undertaken of the submerged archaeological remains simply about the breakwater as well as throughout the entire underwater landscape of Dreamers Bay. All finds were noted, described as well as photographed underwater as well as a tape of their location taken using GPS. Selected finds were lifted when archaeologists felt they were either inwards danger of farther displacement as well as erosion on the seafloor or useful equally chronological indicators. Distribution as well as quantities were noted to explore the nature of activities either side of the breakwater inwards club to assist produce upward one's heed its function.

View of the ancient cliff-top quarries [Credit: University of Leicester]

Of banking concern annotation inwards damage of finds, was a large concentration of relatively homogenous ceramics, to a greater extent than oftentimes than non amphorae, of apparent piece of cake Roman appointment concentrated to the due east of the breakwater. This cloth was rattling broken upward as well as concreted into the seabed but appears on origin evaluation, to travel the remains of a rattling fragmented shipwreck. In improver to a reveal of rock anchors distributed simply about the breakwater, 3 brusque columns of what appears to travel Aswan granite, were besides constitute to the due east of the breakwater, 2 on travel past times of the rubble that savage to the due east of the structure, as well as ane inwards association amongst the shipwreck. The initial interpretation is that the columns were besides component of the cargo of the ship that wrecked against the breakwater afterward it savage into disuse.

During the September 2018 season, a reveal of sediment cores were besides extracted inwards club to endeavor as well as produce upward one's heed the nature of the surroundings either side of the breakwater over the class of its life – sediments deposited inwards calmer waters indicating that shelter was available, whereas those deposited inwards to a greater extent than tempestuous seas would betoken that the shelter previously provided past times the breakwater was no longer afforded as well as the expanse had larn exposed to the prevailing maritime conditions. The 4 cores that were successfully extracted are currently existence analysed as well as assessed for whatever dating cloth inwards the promise that this transition inwards exposure as well as thence the appointment that the breakwater savage out of use, tin travel determined.

Source: Press as well as Information Office, Republic of Republic of Cyprus [November 09, 2018]


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