18th-Century Ship Found at Ground Zero

Construction workers, while excavating Ground Zero, came across some wood timbers flecked with oyster shells.(photo credit: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)

...the outlines made it plain: a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the World Trade Center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the Manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to light at 175 Water Street.

(photo credit: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)

The area under excavation, between Liberty and Cedar Streets, had not been dug out for the original trade center. The vessel, presumably dating from the mid- to late 1700s, was evidently undisturbed more than 200 years.

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