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In December 1798 HMS Colossus, a 74 gun warship built in 1787 at Gravesend, was on her way home to England with wounded from the Battle of the Nile and with cargo, including part of Sir William Hamiltonâ??s second collection of Greek pottery. She was sheltering from a gale in St Maryâ??s Roads, Isles of Scilly, when the anchor cable parted and she was driven aground to the south of Samson. All but one member of the crew were taken off safely before Colossus turned onto her beam ends and proceeded to break up. To date, two main areas of wreckage have been identified, the bow site and the stern site. In 1975 part of the wreck (probably the bow) was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act. This designation was revoked in 1984. The current site, the stern, was designated in 2001. Fieldwork was undertaken by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Maritime Archaeology Society (CISMAS) for two weeks in May 2017. Large areas of the seabed around the stern site were searched in detail in order to better understand the events leading to the present disposition of wreck material on the seabed. This was mainly prompted by the proposal of a new wrecking theory by CISMAS in 2015. This project revisits the loss of the ship, the historic salvage of the wreck and the rediscovery of the site and subsequent excavation by Roland Morris in the 1970s. The evolution of our understanding of how and where Colossus was wrecked is examined in some detail. This is followed by an explanation of the new wrecking theory - and how the results of this yearâ??s survey accord with it.
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| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 5071 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | HMS Colossus Wrecking Project 2017 |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | c7c0dae30f7f5484cb311d0a1724dc83 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | COLL_ID_1003128 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2018-03-01 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2018-04-30 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | In December 1798 HMS Colossus, a 74 gun warship built in 1787 at Gravesend, was on her way home to England with wounded from the Battle of the Nile and with cargo, including part of Sir William Hamiltonâ??s second collection of Greek pottery. She was sheltering from a gale in St Maryâ??s Roads, Isles of Scilly, when the anchor cable parted and she was driven aground to the south of Samson. All but one member of the crew were taken off safely before Colossus turned onto her beam ends and proceeded to break up. To date, two main areas of wreckage have been identified, the bow site and the stern site. In 1975 part of the wreck (probably the bow) was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act. This designation was revoked in 1984. The current site, the stern, was designated in 2001. Fieldwork was undertaken by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Maritime Archaeology Society (CISMAS) for two weeks in May 2017. Large areas of the seabed around the stern site were searched in detail in order to better understand the events leading to the present disposition of wreck material on the seabed. This was mainly prompted by the proposal of a new wrecking theory by CISMAS in 2015. This project revisits the loss of the ship, the historic salvage of the wreck and the rediscovery of the site and subsequent excavation by Roland Morris in the 1970s. The evolution of our understanding of how and where Colossus was wrecked is examined in some detail. This is followed by an explanation of the new wrecking theory - and how the results of this yearâ??s survey accord with it. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | This dataset was collected by Kevin Kamidge and provided to the Archaeology Data Service for long term archive and management. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | NDGO0005 | |
| Keyword title | data.gov.uk | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Buildings |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Protected sites | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Man-made structures | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine archaeology | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fish aggregating device usage statistics | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 49.9276 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -6.3377 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 49.9202 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -6.3491 |
| Regional sea | inapplicable | |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Archaeology Data Service | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Archaeology Data Service | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Historic England | |
| Individual name | Kevin Kamidge | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Archaeology Data Service | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://doi.org/10.5284/1050094 |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | ISO restriction code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | otherRestrictions |
| 20 Limitations on Public Access – Other constraints | Any restriction on the use of the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/termsOfUseAndAccess |
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/termsOfUseAndAccess |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Documents |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2018-11-20 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2022-07-22 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery metadata standard |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 2.3.8 |
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