Progress in the Drum Garden continued through this week and now all the drums have been successfully flipped and rigged! The solution the team came up with for Drum three was to flip it twice more, as we got the hang of the new rigging and filling system. This success meant that we could call Captain Eray of the crane boat, who expects to arrive late tomorrow to begin the drum lifting process.
A flipping success!
The last drum falls into place...
... and our fearless leader checks it off the list!
We even got a chance to do a little archaeology on site the last few days, uncovering several more anchor components associated with the shipwreck and doing an analysis of the pottery scattered around the wreck site. It seems to be primarily from later AD 4th and 8th century shipwrecks, but the search continues for any remaining Kizilburun material.
A lead anchor collar
Some of the Byzantine pottery scatter
Back in camp, Donny and Dave started dismantling the galley with a few choice swings of the hammer, while the rest of us encouraged them with drinks in hand. We toasted each other and the late Claude Duthuit, without whom none of the INA equipment and infrastructure we rely on every day would exist.
