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Maritime archaeology in Northern Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Brian Williams  and
Tom McErlean
Brian Williams
Affiliation:
Environment & Heritage Service, 5–33 Hill Street, Belfast BT1 2LA, Northern Ireland. brian.williams@doeni.gov.uk
Tom McErlean
Affiliation:
Centre for Maritime Archaeology, School of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland. tc.mcerlean@ulst.ac.uk
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Introduction

The study of maritime archaeology is a relatively new activity in Northern Ireland. This paper introduces the approach that has been adopted in investigating the maritime cultural landscape and takes a detailed look at the maritime archaeology of Strangford Lough.

Only in the last decade has government in Northern Ireland been responsible for the management of maritime archaeology. The Department of the Environment agency, Environment and Heritage Service (EHS), administers the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 in Northern Ireland's territorial waters. Having no knowledge of the subject and faced with the management of shipwrecks, EHS Grst created a register of known shipwrecks. A Senior Fellow, Colin Breen, was appointed in 1993 in the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast. Using docurnentary sourc:es such as Lloyd's List and Lloyd's Register, together with Parlianientary Sessional papers and many other documentary sources, he identified some 3000 wrecks around Northern Ireland’s short coastline (Breen 1996).

Keywords

intertidal archaeologymaritime archaeologymaritime cultural landscapeforeshoreseabed geophysicsshipwrecks
Type
Special section: Archaeology in Ireland
Information
Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 292 , June 2002 , pp. 505 - 511
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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