136. Unexpected joy
After four or five hours of busy work, the wreck part buried in the silt on the seabed was finally unearthed.
"Quick, wrap the tin sheet!" Regardless of whether the others could really hear it, the person who spoke was very excited to command.
Fortunately, there was more than one experienced person, and soon the ancient shipwreck was tightly wrapped with iron sheets up and down, and after confirming that the ropes were tied and no other residual cultural relics were found on the seabed, the ancient shipwreck was slowly lifted up.
After joining forces to fill in the pit they had dug, they continued to swim to the next destination.
As for the archaeological excavation of ancient shipwrecks, it is naturally left to professionals.
However, the legend of this area may be true, because the place they came at this time was less than 200 meters from the location of the ancient shipwreck that had just been salvaged.
It seems that he turned around in the sea, turned a corner, and came to another shipwreck site.
This time, though, it didn't look lucky.
The shipwreck as a whole has been sleeping on the seabed for hundreds of years in an inverted posture, with the bottom facing up, and the ship's masts and cabins are unknown whether they were damaged by the impact or buried deep in the seabed, and the situation cannot be seen from the outside.
The hull of the ship is large, about ten meters long, covered with thick calcareous, seaweed, etc., and in the less obvious corner of one side, there is a hole that can barely accommodate a person to pass through.
"Isn't it? This can't be a cave thief, right? The archaeologists sighed again and again, and hurriedly stepped forward to check carefully.
In fact, compared with the rampant grave robbers on land, the poachers on the bottom of the sea undoubtedly face many times more difficulties.
As a result, the underwater cultural relics can be preserved relatively intact and undisturbed.
After an experienced person carefully cleaned up the debris around the cave entrance, it was found that this was probably the main cause of the wreck.
The hole is surrounded by cobweb-like cracks, which look more like they were caused by a violent impact, and it is possible that hundreds of years ago, the ship accidentally hit a reef or other objects while sailing, and the hull leaked, which eventually led to the shipwreck.
Although it can be seen that this ship is indeed an ancient shipwreck, which is very characteristic of the times, no one is sure whether it is a merchant ship carrying goods, and whether there are any treasures to look forward to.
Since you have come, there is no reason not to understand it.
Gently tap the hull with a small hammer, and after the possible fish are frightened and swim away, everyone carefully follows the hole into the inside of the hull.
The inside of the inverted wreck forms a dark space, and even if everyone turns on their headlights, the line of sight is very small.
The internal structure of the hull was chaotic, and all kinds of wooden components that had already decayed were scattered, scattered, and some were even broken into pieces. It is believed that the original deck and rooms were damaged by the impact of the seabed, and the current appearance was formed.
The inverted shipwreck, even if there was once a shipload of priceless and exquisite treasures, it is estimated that there are few that can survive now, and those that are not scrapped.
Although they were not hopeful, the people who came in patiently examined the hull of the ship and looked through the mud on the seabed to see if there were any unexpected finds.
Some small fish, shrimp and crabs hidden on the seabed fled in all directions like frightened birds, and for a while, the surrounding sea water was almost full of small creatures.
An archaeologist took a small hammer and tapped it lightly all over the hull, listening carefully to the echoes and feeling the different tremors to distinguish whether the hull had a mezzanine or not.
If the wreck had found nothing worth studying, it would probably have been sleeping at the bottom of the ocean forever, never to see the light of day.
Tang Qinqin followed her best friend, a sea turtle, into the inside of the inverted hull.
As a well-known birthday animal on the seabed, sea turtles can generally survive for about 150 years, 20-30 years old is their adult period, but although it reproduces quickly, but the survival rate is not high, the eggs laid in the land soil pit, the newly hatched baby turtles are easy to become the food of other animals, and the number that can really reach the sea safely is not much, and there are many survival tests in the process of growth.
The turtle that communicated with Tang Qinqin was forty or fifty years old, and it had a belly of mysterious underwater adventure stories to tell Tang Qinqin, and in exchange, it could also learn a little about human growth stories from Tang Qinqin.
"My grandparents once told us a story about how they had seen giant monsters falling from the sea with many strange things in their stomachs, some shiny, some round and flat, which broke easily when hit, and some of which were very heavy in dust. But almost without exception, it is a very toothy object, and many sea creatures who are curious about it have been mouthful of various parts of it, and finally returned in disappointment. "The turtle speaks a little slower, with a deep voice, and a very storytelling atmosphere.
Hearing "Bright Jingjing", Tang Qinqin felt that it must be a good thing, and real money and silver will be "Bright Jingjing".
"Then about this big monster," Tang Qinqin pointed to the shipwreck they had just entered, "Is there any legend about it?" ”
These "natives of the sea" called the sunken human ships "big monsters" and "giant monsters", and the sea turtles have seen and heard far more colorful things than other sea creatures in their long lives, and it is more likely that they have seen or heard the stories of these shipwrecks.
"We turtles generally like to live alone, it is difficult to see relatives in our lives, and we have fewer friends, but we are more docile and easy to get along with other marine animals, I have heard many versions of the monsters of this sea, whether it is true or not, you have to judge for yourself."
Then he told Tang Qinqin about several versions of the story he had heard.
"Dusty, hard bumps?" What's that? Tang Qinqin listened to one of the stories, and was a little curious about the point mentioned in it, and wondered in his heart.
Maybe it was the iron ore that was pulled on the ship at that time?
So, as mentioned in the story just now, there are a lot of iron ores?
Tang Qinqin looked around, found Song Yuanze, and told him about his guess.
However, after listening to it, Song Yuanze had his own thoughts.
He typed in the buddy chat box, "I see." Leave it to me. Then attach a bright smile.
As soon as Tang Qinqin looked up, he saw him looking at him with a smile.
Holding the heart of the deer, he sucked in his uncompetitive Harazi, but in his heart he was shouting and screaming: "Gentle crit!" I'm gone! ”
Song Yuanze was in charge of liaising with the archaeologists, and after they joined forces to continue excavating about six or seven meters downward, they finally found some shipwrecks, rotten wood, broken porcelain fragments, and the legendary dusty pimples - silver ingots, copper coins, stone carvings, lacquerware, etc.
The joy of the underwater archaeologists is obvious, and the precious cultural relics that have been excavated are not only these, but also the well-preserved and very representative Longquan celadon found in the silt, which is a testimony of that era.
After a long period of archaeological experience, we have found that the best protection of cultural relics is actually to minimize intervention, and for them, the real suitable place is not museums and exhibition halls, but the seabed and underground.