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Title Description Material Number of Items ANCODS Wreck
KMB1169 - Armament

wood saw sample

Armament 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6262 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1170 - Cargo

wood sample

Cargo 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6256 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1171 - Ship's timber

wood sample

Ship's timber 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6242 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1172 - Copper/brass

Copper alloy sheathing tack

Copper/brass 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6252 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1173 - Copper/brass

copper alloy saw sample

Copper/brass 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6251 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1174 - Lead

Lead sample with copper alloy tack

Lead 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6249 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1175 - Copper/brass

Concreted copper sheathing

Copper/brass 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6246 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1176 - Pitch/tar/oil

corking and copper tacks

Pitch/tar/oil 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6254 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1177 - Copper/brass

copper sheathing

Copper/brass 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6248 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1178 - Ship's timber

wood saw sample

Ship's timber 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6257 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1179 - Ship's timber

wood core sample

Ship's timber 2 Samuel Wright
BILS6255 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1180 - Ship's timber

wood saw sample

Ship's timber 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6244 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1181 - Ship's timber

wood saw sample

Ship's timber 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6241 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1182 - Ship's timber

wood saw sample

Ship's timber 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6245 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1183 - Ship's timber

wood saw sample

Ship's timber 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6253 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS6240 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1184 - Lead

lead (fishing weight ?)

Lead 1 Samuel Wright
KMB1185 - Ship's timber

wood saw sample

Ship's timber 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6247 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1186 - Copper/brass

copper alloy fastening with washer saw sample

Copper/brass 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6243 - Soil Sample

Soil sample

Soil Sample 1 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS6236

Skeletal remains SK21

1 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS6235

Skeletal remains SK23

1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1187 - Animal

bone, fish

Animal 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6238 - Human

Bone. Human. Carpal.

Human 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1188 - Rope/leather/etc.

rope fragments

Rope/leather/etc. 2 Samuel Wright
BILS6237 - Human

Bone. Human. Phalange.

Human 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1189A - Cargo

bottom of barrel

Cargo 3 Samuel Wright
BILS6250 - Human

Bone. Human.

Human 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1190 - Copper/brass

sacrificial planking, corking, brass watermark “8” and 5 tacks

Copper/brass 10 Samuel Wright
BILS6259 - Human

Bone. Human.

Human 47 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1191 - Miscellaneous

Button

Miscellaneous 1 Samuel Wright
KMB1192 - Miscellaneous

timber saw sample

Miscellaneous 1 Samuel Wright
BILS6258 - Human

Bone. Human.

Human 4 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS6260 - Human

Bone. Human.

Human Beacon Island Land Site
BILS6035 - Human

Skeletal remains SK19

Human 1 Beacon Island Land Site
KMB1189B - Cargo

Wicker fragments

Cargo 47 Samuel Wright
KMB1189C - Cargo

Barrel stave 1, 3 x concretion (hoop fragments ?)

Cargo 4 Samuel Wright
KMB1189D - Cargo

Barrel stave 2 and 5 x wicker fragments

Cargo 6 Samuel Wright
KMB1189E - Cargo

Barrel Stave 3 and 7 x wicker fragments

Cargo 8 Samuel Wright
KMB1189F - Cargo

Barrel stave 4 (includes 3 x staves), 3 x concretion (barrel hoop), 7 x wicker fragments

Cargo 13 Samuel Wright
KMB1189G - Cargo

Barrel stave 5

Cargo 1 Samuel Wright
KMB1189H - Cargo

Barrel stave 6 and 3 x wicker fragments

Cargo 4 Samuel Wright
KMB1189I - Cargo

Barrel staves 7 and 8 and 13 x wicker fragments

Cargo 14 Samuel Wright
KMB1189J - Cargo

Barrel stave 9 and 4 x wicker fragments

Cargo 5 Samuel Wright
KMB1189K - Cargo

Barrel stave 10, 3 wicker fragments (top), 14 x wicker fragments (bottom)

Cargo 18 Samuel Wright
KMB1189L - Cargo

Barrel stave 11

Cargo 3 Samuel Wright
KMB1189M - Cargo

Barrel stave 12 and stave 13, 2 x concretion, 7 x wicker fragments

Cargo 10 Samuel Wright
KMB1189N - Cargo

Barel stave 14 and stave 15, 1 x concretion and timber, 1 x concretion (barrel hoop), 16 x wicker fragments

Cargo 20 Samuel Wright
KMB11890 - Cargo

Barrel stave 16, 3 x concreted wicker hoop,

Cargo 25 Samuel Wright
KMB1189P - Cargo

2 x concretion (barrel hoop), 7 x timber fragments

Cargo 9 Samuel Wright
KMB1193 - Miscellaneous

timber, possible barrel plug (?)

Miscellaneous 1 Samuel Wright
KMB1194 - Concretions

Concretion with timber fragments

Concretions 1 Samuel Wright
KMB1195 - Concretions

concretion, Barrel hoop

Concretions 1 Samuel Wright
KMB1196A-D - Cargo

Barrel staves

Cargo 4 Samuel Wright
KMB1198 - Concretions

concretion, barrel hoop

Concretions 1 Samuel Wright
KMB1199 - Concretions

Concretion

Concretions 2 Samuel Wright
KMB1200 - Animal

bone (crab shell?)

Animal 1 Samuel Wright
KMB1201 - Ballast stone

ballast

Ballast stone 4 Samuel Wright
KMB1189Q - Cargo

Wicker fragments

Cargo 9 Samuel Wright
KMB1197A-C - Cargo

barrel staves

Cargo 10 Samuel Wright
KMB1189R - Cargo

Wicker fragment

Cargo 1 Samuel Wright
KMB1196E - Miscellaneous

timber fragment (dowel ?)

Miscellaneous 1 Samuel Wright
KMB1189S - Cargo

15 x Wicker fragments, 1 x concretion

Cargo 16 Samuel Wright
KMB1202 - Ship's timber

timber frame

Ship's timber 1 Samuel Wright
GT6188 - TIMBER

Timber fragments. One with remains of bolt/dowel hole. Very worm eaten.

TIMBER 5 Vergulde Draeck (Gilt Dragon)
KMB1163A - Coal

Coal

Coal 1 Samuel Wright
UNID6318 - Glass

Bottle, blue glass, with parafin(?) oil content

Glass 1 Unidentified
UNID6319 - Clay pipes

Clay pipe

Clay pipes 1 Unidentified
CY6320 - Copper/brass

Porthole

Copper/brass 1 City of York
CA6321 - Copper/brass

barometer

Copper/brass 1 Carlisle Castle
LJ562 - MISCELLANEOUS

Concretion: Modern plastic container

Miscellaneous 1 Long Jetty site, Fremantle
SBC6322 - NON-FERROUS

Aircraft fuselage

NON-FERROUS 1 Seabird Catalina
BCI350 - Animal

bone fragment

Animal 2 Beacon Island
UNID6323 - Animal

bone, whale rib (?), worked

Animal 1 Unidentified
UNID6324 - TIMBER

Timber fragments x 2, concretion x 1

TIMBER 3 Unidentified
UNID6325 - Glass

glass fragments

Glass 44 Unidentified
UNID6326 - Clay pipes

pipe fragments

Clay pipes 4 Unidentified
UNID6327 - Copper/brass

tack

Copper/brass 1 Unidentified
UNID6328 - FERROUS

iron fragments

FERROUS 3 Unidentified
XA392 - Copper/brass

Aft die block assembly for Stephensons link slide mechanism

Copper/brass Xantho
UNID6329 - Copper/brass

bronze (?) clasp. Possibly for book or small wooden case. Ornamental.

Copper/brass 1 Unidentified
UNID6330 - Glass

Fragment of bottle base

Glass 1 Unidentified
UNID6332 - Stoneware

medallion fragment

Stoneware 1 Unidentified
UNID6335 - Glass

glass fragments from onion bottle

Glass 20 Unidentified
UNID6339 - Stoneware

pottery sherd, stoneware

Stoneware 1 Unidentified
UNID6340 - Glass

glass bottle base, onion bottle (?)

Glass 1 Unidentified
UNID6342 - CERAMICS

beardman jug (?) fragment

CERAMICS 1 Unidentified
UNID6334 - Glass

glass fragments, possibly from onion bottle (?)

Glass 4 Unidentified
UNID6341 - Lead

musket balls

Lead 17 Unidentified
UNID6333 - Glass

glass fragments, possible onion bottle fragments

Glass 6 Unidentified
UNID6338 - Glass

glass bottle fragment, top of bottle

Glass 1 Unidentified
UNID6336 - Bricks

Ballast brick fragment (?)

Bricks 1 Unidentified
UNID6337 - Copper/brass

candle stick fragments

Copper/brass 4 Unidentified
UNID6331 - Miscellaneous

beardman jug stoneware fragments x 2, concretion fragments x 4, coin fragment x 1

Miscellaneous 7 Unidentified
UNID6346 - Clay pipes

Clay pipe stem fragments

Clay pipes 2 Unidentified
UNID6345 - Clay pipes

clay pipe bowl fragments

Clay pipes 3 Unidentified
UNID6344 - Clay pipes

clay pipe fragments (2 x bowl fragments, 3 x stem fragments)

Clay pipes 5 Unidentified
UNID6348 - Glass

case bottle base (?), olive green

Glass 1 Unidentified
UNID6347 - Glass

case bottle base

Glass 1 Unidentified
UNID6349 - Glass

case bottle base, bottle fragment

Glass 1 Unidentified
UNID6356 - Copper/brass

larger copper fastener x1, pre-1830s
copper nails x 4, post-1830s

Copper/brass 5 Unidentified
UNID6355 - Copper/brass

copper nails

Copper/brass 10 Unidentified
UNID6352 - Copper/brass

copper nails x 2, brass button x 1

Copper/brass 3 Unidentified
UNID6351 - FERROUS

iron nails (2) concreted together

FERROUS 1 Unidentified
UNID6353 - Glass

Glass ink bottle

Glass 1 Unidentified
UNID6354 - Glass

glass bottle, “J.S.W. PARKER DANGIN. W. A.”

Glass 1 Unidentified
UNID6357 - Copper/brass

Copper sheeting fragment

Copper/brass 1 Unidentified
UNID6343 - Copper/brass

unidentified copper sheathing (?)

Copper/brass 1 Unidentified
UNID6350 - Copper/brass

copper zinc, possible forelock bolt

Copper/brass 1 Unidentified
MO6358

Boat Model (with wooden framed glass case) of the chaloupe from Nicolas Baudin’s ship Geographe, made by Bart de Vries, of Bunbury, based on Robert Sexton plans.

1 Model ship
ORZ6359 - General

personal log, exercise book. hand written in copperplate writing. Written in verse from one of the passengers (writer unknown).

General 1 Orizaba SS
ZW6360 - Glass

Onion bottle, intact. With engraved badge reading ‘FROM DUTCH MAN OF WAR’ ZEEWYK Wrecked 1728 Gun Island Houtman’s Abrolhos’

Glass 1 Zeewijk
BILS5912 - Animal

bone, faunal

Animal 6 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5913 - Animal

Bone, faunal (x1) and modern unidentified (x1)

Animal 2 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5914 - Animal

Soil sample

Animal 1 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5915 - FERROUS

metal fragments

FERROUS 2 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5916 - Animal

shell

Animal 1 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5917 - FERROUS

Iron fragments

FERROUS 50 Beacon Island Land Site
IS2517 - Ship's fittings

Nail, iron.

Ship's fittings 1 Island
BILS5918 - Animal

animal bone (x 8) and shell (x 1)

Animal 9 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5923 - Human

Unidentified bone fragments. SK18?

Human 4 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5928 - Human

Unidentified bone fragments. SK18?

Human 6 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5927 - Human

Intermediate phalanx, right foot. SK18.

Human 1 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5926 - Human

Unidentified bone fragments. SK18?

Human 2 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5925 - Human

Unidentified bone fragment. SK18?

Human 4 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5924 - Human

Second metacarpal, left hand. SK18.

Human 1 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5922 - Animal

Animal bone

Animal 13 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5921 - Animal

Animal bone

Animal 8 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5920 - Animal

Animal bone (X 6) AND shell (x 4) AND unidentified material (x 1)

Animal 11 Beacon Island Land Site
BILS5919 - Animal

Animal bone (x1) AND coral (x2)

Animal 3 Beacon Island Land Site
UNID6362 - Ship's timber

Ship timber - plank. Large ship’s timber with trenails and copper alloy fastenings, and remains of sheathing tacks, signs of burning.

Ship's timber 1 Unidentified
UNID6361 - Flint

Flint - likely Cretaceous English flint, probable ballast

Flint 1 Unidentified
UNID6363 - Earthenware

Ceramic - coarse brown Asian earthenware sherds from domestic ware with incised decoration, conjoined (one sherd broken in postal transit).

Earthenware 2 Unidentified
ALK6364 - Copper/brass

Barometer

Copper/brass 1 Alkimos
ALK6365 - Copper/brass

Clock

Copper/brass 1 Alkimos
ALK6366 - TIMBER

Wheel

TIMBER 1 Alkimos
ALK6367 - MISCELLANEOUS

Binoculars

Miscellaneous 1 Alkimos
ALK6368 - Copper/brass

Compass

Copper/brass 1 Alkimos
ALK6369AB - NON-FERROUS

A) Weighted box B) paper contents of box

NON-FERROUS 1 Alkimos
ALK6371 - TIMBER

Name plate from lifeboat

TIMBER 1 Alkimos
ALK6373 - TIMBER

ship’s paperwork (box of)

TIMBER 1 Alkimos
UNID6370 - Copper/brass

Binnacle

Copper/brass 1 Unidentified
UNID6372 - Copper/brass

Bell

Copper/brass 1 Unidentified
UNID6374 - TIMBER

Possible hatch coaming or table frame

TIMBER 1 Unidentified
CBH6375 - Ship's timber

Rudder

Ship's timber 1 Careening Bay Coal Hulk
LY4338 - Ship's fittings

Boom

Ship's fittings 2 Lygnern
UNID6376 - TIMBER

Box of original Whitworth taps and dies (28 pieces + box)

TIMBER 1 Unidentified
CA6377 - Glass

Masthead lamp

Glass 1 Carlisle Castle
CR6378 - Copper/brass

Fairlead (broken in 2)

Copper/brass 2 Crown of England
CY6379 - Copper/brass

Porthole

Copper/brass 1 City of York
RS67A - Copper/brass

Unidentified curved copper fragment: possibly part part of arm of dividers RS 68. (1 of 6 from RS 67)

Copper/brass 1 Lively Rowley Shoals
JM513B - Ship's fittings

Iron fastening: fragment?

(B) 13 small iron fragments returned from conservation 9/09 (photographed). One fragment has partially lost ‘16’ embossed.

Ship's fittings James Matthews
LJ114 - Glass

Glass bottles: black. (olive?)

Glass 2 Long Jetty site, Fremantle
ZW5687 - MISCELLANEOUS

Model of the Zeewijk sloop as built by casterways and called ‘Sloeptie’, not Sloepie as believed and published over the year (includes base support)

Miscellaneous 1 Zeewijk
ORZ6380 - TIMBER

Ship’s wheel

TIMBER 1 Orizaba SS
ZW6381 - Animal

Elephant tusk

Animal 1 Zeewijk
BAT3901A - Human

Skull, loose ear ossicle and mandible with 8 mandibular teeth in-situ and one loose mandibular tooth, one cast in-situ, five loose maxillary teeth, and disarticulated cranial fragments x 8

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 17 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901B - Human

Left femur

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901C - Human

Left fibula

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901D - Human

Right femur

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901E - Human

Right fibula

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901F - Human

Left patella

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901G - Human

Left tibia

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901H - Human

Right tibia

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901I - Human

Proximal humeral epiphysis, left arm

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901J - Human

Humerus, left

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901K - Human

Right ulna and distal epiphysis

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 2 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901L - Human

Left radius

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901M - Human

Right radius. Associated with BAT3901 JJJ distal epiphysis.

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901N - Human

Left ulna

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901O - Human

Right humerus

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901P - Human

intermediate cuneform, Left foot and cuboid, left foot

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 2 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901Q - Human

Right rib

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901R - Human

Rib fragments

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 3 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901S - Human

Left rib

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901T - Human

Right rib

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901U - Human

Left rib

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901V - Human

Left clavical

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901W - Human

Left scapula

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901X - Human

Rib fragments

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 2 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901Y - Human

Left ribs

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 2 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901Z - Human

Right ribs

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 2 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901AA - Human

Left rib

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia
BAT3901BB - Human

Right publis iliac

Female aged 14–18 years.

Human 1 1975 Netherlands Govt. Allocation Batavia