'Part of the normal beach scenery': Shipwreck investigations at Port MacDonnell, South Australia
'Part of the normal beach scenery': Shipwreck investigations at Port MacDonnell, South Australia
The flotsam of the sea has a queer fascination to dwellers along the coasts. It has been gathered and used ever since the earliest times and folk were ever on the watch for the prizes the sea brought to their doors. It was found under the rocky headlands swirled high and dry upon shingle and ledges. The winter storms sweep it into inlets and creeks or piles it upon the masses of grey chert where some low point juts seaward. Houses and sheds were built of it. Furniture and fixtures, tables, and chairs that stand in old houses fashioned from the timbers of long forgotten wrecks (Perryman n.d.
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Fowler, Maddy
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McKinnon, Jennifer
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2012
Fowler, Maddy
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McKinnon, Jennifer
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Fowler, Maddy and McKinnon, Jennifer
(2012)
'Part of the normal beach scenery': Shipwreck investigations at Port MacDonnell, South Australia.
Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology Bulletin, 36, .
Abstract
The flotsam of the sea has a queer fascination to dwellers along the coasts. It has been gathered and used ever since the earliest times and folk were ever on the watch for the prizes the sea brought to their doors. It was found under the rocky headlands swirled high and dry upon shingle and ledges. The winter storms sweep it into inlets and creeks or piles it upon the masses of grey chert where some low point juts seaward. Houses and sheds were built of it. Furniture and fixtures, tables, and chairs that stand in old houses fashioned from the timbers of long forgotten wrecks (Perryman n.d.
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