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*[http://www.hwtma.org.uk The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology official website]
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Revision as of 13:07, 1 November 2011

The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology
AbbreviationHWTMA
Formation1991
Legal statusCharitable Trust
PurposePromote maritime archaeological study[1]
HeadquartersNational Oceanography Centre[1][2]
Location
  • United Kingdom
Region served
Primarily the Solent
Official language
English
WebsiteHWTMA.org.uk
RemarksRegistered charity number 900025[1]

The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology is a charitable trust that researches and excavates maritime archaeology and heritage in Great Britain. Their core activities are focused around Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and the Solent, but they also work in other parts of the country.

History

The discovery of the wreck of HMS Pomone at The Needles in 1969 led the Isle of Wight Council to fund and organise a team to research and excavate the site.[3] As more wrecks were discovered in the following decades, the Isle of Wight Maritime Heritage Project was formed. The project originally focused on the Yarmouth Roads Protected Wreck Site but also began to identify Mesolithic sites on the seabed of the Solent.[4][5] When central government funds were withdrawn, the project was re-organised as the Isle of Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology in 1990. The Trust managed the excavation of several sites and became the licensee for many of them.[3] In 1991, with support from Hampshire County Council, the Trust's scope expanded and it became the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology.[4][5]

Projects

The charity has since investigated a great deal of maritime archaeology around the Solent, including shipwrecks, submerged landscapes and inter-tidal foreshore sites.[6] They have also conducted projects as far away as Gibraltar and the Farasan Islands.[7]

Bouldnor Cliff

In 1999 divers from the Trust discovered the Mesolithic settlement site of Bouldnor Cliff. The site is offshore of Bouldnor on the Isle of Wight and about 11 metres below the surface of the Solent.[8] Attention was first drawn to the site when divers observed a lobster discarding worked flint tools from its burrow.[5] Since then, several years of continual fieldwork have revealed that Bouldnor was almost certainly a settlement site about 8,000 years ago, at a time when lower sea levels meant that the Solent was just a river valley. The work done so far has already revealed that the technology of Mesolithic settlers was probably 2,000 years ahead of what had previously been believed.[9][10]

Forton Lake

Between 2006 and 2009, the Trust ran a community archaeology project at Forton Lake, with the Nautical Archaeology Society, cataloguing the wide range of hulks there.[11] The project was designed to raise local awareness and foster a sense of local pride and ownership amongst nearby residents in Gosport.[12]

Centaur Tanks

In a joint project with Southsea Sub Aqua Club, the Trust has investigated two Centaur tanks from a capsized Landing Craft Tank in the Solent, as part of a case study to see if land based legislation can be used to protect maritime archaeology.[13]

The Mystery Wreck

The Trust investigated a 'mystery wreck' on Horse Tail Sands in the Solent between 2003 and 2011. It was not until 2011 that the Trust was able to confirm the vessel's identity as the Flower of Ugie, a 19th century barque. As well as fully record the vessel's remains, the Trust replicated the process of wreck identification in a teaching pack for children.[14]

Dissemination and Education

The Trust runs an active outreach project and operates a "Maritime Bus" to demonstrate maritime archaeology at sites not accessible to non-divers. The bus attends regular events in the south coast, including school, community and other public events.[15][16] The Trust also runs the Underwater Archaeology Centre at Fort Victoria on the Isle of Wight.[17]

In 2011, the Trust was awarded a Europa Nostra award for Category 4: Education, Training and Awareness Raising, for "raising the profile of maritime heritage and archaeology", recognising the numerous ways in which the Trust teaches audiences of all types about maritime heritage.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Aims and Objectives". The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  2. ^ "National Oceanography Centre success at SUT Awards". National Oceanography Centre. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  3. ^ a b Medland, p. 52
  4. ^ a b Sparks, Momber & Satchell, p. 3
  5. ^ a b c British Archaeology, p. 32
  6. ^ "Archaeological Projects". The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  7. ^ "Submerged prehistory". The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  8. ^ British Archaeology, p. 31
  9. ^ "Diving into the Past", Isle of Wight County Press, p. 14, 16-09-2011 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  10. ^ "Fight on to save Stone Age Atlantis". BBC. 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  11. ^ "Forton Lake". Nautical Archaeology Society. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  12. ^ Forton Lake, p. 27
  13. ^ "Isle of Wight's sunken World War II tanks studied". BBC. 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2011-10-31. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  14. ^ "Mystery Shipwreck Solved" (PDF). Solent Forum. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  15. ^ "The Maritime Bus". The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  16. ^ "Hamble Valley; History and Heritage". The Marketing Collective. Retrieved 2011-10-31.
  17. ^ Burdett & Insole, p. 113
  18. ^ "Raising Awareness of Maritime Cultural Heritage - Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology". Europa Nostra. Retrieved 2011-10-31.

Bibliography

  • David Burdett & Allan Insole (1995). Discovering an Island - The roadside heritage of the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight Society/Island Books. ISBN 1-898198-12-8.
  • Medland, J (2007). The Making of the Wight - An illustrated history of the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight Beacon Ltd. ISBN 978-1-904149-14-9.
  • G. Momber, J. Satchell & J. Gillespie (2011). "Bouldnor Cliff". British Archaeology (November - December 2011). York: Council for British Archaeology: 30–35. ISSN 9771357444021. {{cite journal}}: Check |issn= value (help)
  • J. Satchell, M. Beattie Edwards, J. Maddocks & M. Harvey (2009). Forton Lake Archaeology Project: Forton's Forgotten Fleet. Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology/Nautical Archaeology Society. ISBN 978-0-9533950-1-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • B. Sparks, G. Momber, J. Satchell (2001). A Decade of Diving, Delving & Disseminating: The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology, 1991-2001. The Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology. ISBN 0-9538814-0-8. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: checksum (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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