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Dredge Contractor Turns Up Cannon, Anchor In Savannah
| 题名： | Dredge Contractor Turns Up Cannon, Anchor In Savannah |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | FRANK MCCORMACK |
| 摘要： | As one of the dredge contractors working on the Savannah Harbor Ex-pansion Project, Weeks Marine crew-members are used to dredging up plen-ty of sand and other material as the Savannah Engineer District oversees the deepening of the harbor from 42 to 47 feet.But in late February, the crew turned up something far more rare and archaeologically significant. While working in the vicinity of Old Fort Jackson, a 19th-century fort built in the years leading up to the War of 1812, located just a couple miles east of the city of Savannah, the crew un-earthed several cannons, an anchor and a timber, all likely dating to well before the Civil War."During clamshell dredging opera-tions, the contractor found these arti-facts while screening the maintenance material due to the proximity to the pre-viously recovered CSS Georgia," said Billy Birdwell, acting chief of corporate communications and senior public af-fairs specialist for the Savannah District,"This process identifies potential dis-carded military munitions or unexploded ordnance that may have migrated from the CSS Georgia site into the channel over the past 150 vears." |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 3 |
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