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Saucer, porcelain, Chinese, Ming period with cream glaze.

Bowl, underglaze blue and white, crackle body, related to medicine bottles, Ming period.

Bowl, underglaze blue and white, crackle body, related to medicine bottles, Ming period. Interior decoration consisting of a single figure, outside plain decoration.

Saucer, underglaze blue and white decoration, Ming period, exterior consisting of Peonies and foliage design, interior design being an exagerated Chinese character mark.

Large Ming plate, underglaze blue and white.

Bowl w/ brown glaze with red biscuit, possibly a mortar. Thai, probably Ayuthya period, 16th-17th Century

Plate, underglaze blue and white, overall floral decoration with character mark on base, late Ming.

Large plate, underglaze blue and white geometric bands in cavetto and charactor mark in centre of dish, Ching period.

Saucer/dish,underglaze blue and white, character mark in base and floral decoration, Ching period.

Saucer, Ching period, underglaze blue and white, spiral mark to centre of interior of dish, floral decoration, character mark on base.

Shallow bowl, Swatow ware, floral decoration, Ching period.

Ceramic disk or ‘stilt’ . Diam. 41 mm.

Wing fusilage - unidentified section of plane, perhaps from the wing. Comprised of two metal plates. The first is long and rectangular, with four large circular holes of 40 mm diameter spaced along its length. Second metal plate is attached by screws along one side of the first plate It is broken and heavily warped, bending upwards on both sides. The artefact has a thin layer of concretion and shell, with no heavy erosion.

Wing fusilage - unidentified section of plane, possibly from wing. Singular rectangular plate with raised edges along each long side. A large number of screws (23) of varying sizes remain in place without a clear pattern. At on end the plate slopes upward at around a 20 degree angle, but it is unclear whether this is by design or a result of warping. At the other end of the plate there is a ellipse shaped hole and heavy erosion.

1. Gauge: Specifically oil pressure gauge. Short, broken valve connected to a large round gauge with broken face plate. Gauge face labelled ‘OIL LBS SQ IN’ and marked ‘100’ to 800’ from left to right. Further markings visible but difficult to read. Small needle fixed to the centre of the gauge above two small screws. Bottom right corner contains glass shards from original gauge covering. Face plate held in place by three screws, the fourth broken off along with bottom right hand corner of the plate.
2. Valve fitting: Comprised of three sections. The first is a threaded right angle fitting. The second is a short threaded fitting with a hexagonal centre. The final section is threaded into the previous section, and from there attaches to a more complex mechanism. A flat ‘L’ shaped plate sits above a thin, anchor shaped piece with a grooved edge. A small pin with a gear at its base passes through the top plate and sits against the anchor. A third, wide metal piece extends off the anchor piece.
3. Screws: Two screws, both 40 mm in length with threading on the bottom 10 mm. A thin piece of wire passes through the head of both screws in a ‘U’ shape, connecting them together. Appear to have flathead grooves.
4. Screw: Single screw, with its entire length threaded and a flathead groove.
5. Makers plate: Small long plate with rounded edges and two small holes at either end. Some of makers mark is visible, including ‘MAXWELL’, ‘INC’, and ‘BRIDGEPORT. CONN., USA’. Likely to be the safety valve company Manning, Maxwell, and Moore Inc.
6. Metal shard: Has a number of points, as well and concave and convex curves, two of which seem to fit the broken section of the face plate and the closest screw void.

Oxygen supply cylinder clamp AND Metal plate shard.

Cylinder - cylindrical manifold branching into five pipes. Pipes set into a spade shaped extension from the cylinder. There are three short pipes which narrow into a thin metal nozzle. The remaining two pipes are long and joined at the end by a piece of twisted wire. They each have a threaded right angle coupling with remnants of a second right angle piece attached. The cylinder is set into a rectangular plate with a right angled plate and vertical screw at each end. The cylinder is topped with a domed piece held in place by three screws.

Metal plate shard - remnants of a number of metal plates, heavily eroded and warped. First and largest plate is attached to a second, smaller piece by three screws. This second piece appears to be attached to a third piece by a further two screws.

1. Union/screw: Long metal bar with a hexagonal top extends down to a round stopper. Around this section sits a large, mobile piece with a hexagonal top and a threaded base. Past the round stopper is a fibrous (rubber) washer and a rounded conical piece with four short prongs at its end. The union is connected to artefact 2 with twisted wire at its head.

2. Almost identical to artefact 1. Slightly more erosion on the large hexagonal piece, and missing its base prongs.

Possible pressure release or oil drain valves

1. Converter - Large hollow cylindrical converter. Set into a rectangular base which rises into a trapezium shape to support the cylinder. The base is hollow underneath with four empty screw holes in fortified corners. There is a crossbar through the centre of the rectangle with a large hole in the centre and three screws (one on one side of the hole and two on the other). The hole is larger than the screws an unlikely to have contained a fourth screw. Embossed on top of the base at one end are the letters “BRC”, two more figures which are indistinguishable, then “100”. The cylinder itself has two large screws on each side, and a metal plate attached to the top with two small screws. The markings on the plate are heavily worn, but some of what is discernible reads “230 D.C.” and “AMPS”. The end of the cylinder is also marked with “H.V” and “EA-80925” There are three screw holes at the top and base of each end of the cylinder. The ends of the cylinder also have large metal protrusions in a “U” shape. Each side of the “U” has a large metal screw going through it with a black screw cap on the outside. The base of the “u” has a circular plate with four screws and a long twisted wire attached to the top and base. Inside the “u”, extending towards the inside of the cylinder is a large circular gear which is attached to the large, wire, rotating centre of the converter.
2. Metal plate - Warped metal plate, bent inwards at two points, then outwards at a third. Heavily eroded with a number of holes.
3. Metal plate - Flat, heavily eroded metal plate. Has one empty screw hole, with a second screw hole and remnants of a screw beside it.
4. Metal plate - Small section of metal plate, heavily eroded. Contains fully threaded screw which is only threaded 2 mm through the plate with the remainder of the screw protruding above the plate. Screw has a flathead crease and a mobile metal washer.
5. Metal pin - Solid metal pin which is threaded for 9 mm on either end. One end has a single hexagonal washer threaded 3 mm in.
6. Screw - Single screw with a small amount of eroded metal plate surrounding it. Screw is fully threaded with a flathead groove.
7. Screw-Single screw (see artefact 6) with slightly more eroded metal plate protruding to one side of the screw.
8. Screw - Single screw (see artefact 6 and 7) with no metal plate surrounding it and a metal washer along its length (not attached/fully mobile and removable)

1: Radio component - Heavily eroded. Rectangular aluminium faceplate hold as large (29 mm diameter) chisel grip turning dial and metal node with two screws. Behind the faceplate, inside a heavily eroded aluminium box is a large amount of electrical wiring. Two black metal plates hold six metal screws, each of which is then attached to two strands of electrical wire which are all bundled inside the box. The plates sit atop two circular mechanism which correspond to to the turning dial and node on the faceplate. At the base of the aluminium box are two large circular and hexagonal couplings, one of which has a small amount of twisted electrical cable attached. The artefact shows interesting preferential erosion in which the aluminium acts as a sacrificial metal.
2: Metal plate - small, broken section of black metal plate. It has two small holes next to each other, but they appear to be caused by erosion rather than designed as screw holes. Unclear where the plate fits into primary artefact.
3: Metal plate - Triangular shard of aluminium plate. Heavily erode, clearly from aluminium box.
4: Electrical wire - shot length of electrical wire from inside aluminium box, bent back on itself
5: Screw - Small screw with a hexagonal head, and two washers attached halfway down it’s length.

1. Servo component: Most likely an automatic pilot interface. Manifold with three tubes, connected to a face plate. Face plate has three gauges with graduated wheels controlled by three turning knobs with chisel grips. Two outer wheels are largely degraded, inner wheel is mostly intact and numbered left to right ‘4, 3, 2’. Above each wheel a downwards facing arrow indicates number. Face plate labelled along the top with ‘SERVO’ between left and centre gauges and ‘SPEED’ between centre and right gauges. Beneath centre gauge plate is labelled ‘AILERON’. Labelling beneath two outer gauges is discernible but indecipherable. At the bottom centre of the plate the makers mark reads ‘SPERRY GYROSCOPIC CO INC. BROOKLYN NY’.

2. Threaded fitting: Short, wide threaded piece with hexagonal end threaded onto a longer fitting with a thin threaded section, a wide hexagonal centre, and a slightly narrower, smooth section. Entire piece is hollow. The end of the smooth section has broken off, possibly with the remnants of another fitting inside it.

Aerial insulator - white ceramic insulator, shaped like two bells joined at the base. Where they meet in the centre there are remnants of a metal ring. At the top of each ‘bell’ there is a metal terminal covered in concretion. One of the ceramic halves has a large crack in it.

1. Radio capacitor - large, brown, rectangular capacitor. Two triangular ends jut out on either end of the base, with a large screw in each. Removable base with four empty screw holes and evidence of stamping (indecipherable). On top of capacitor sit the positive and negative connections, one of which has the remnants of a connection still attached. Top of the capacitor has a number of raised stamps reading ‘CORNELL-DUBILIER’, ‘CAPACITOR TYPE 197-6’, ‘AMPS 6’, ‘KC 1000’, ‘MFD 003’, and ‘3000 VOLTS’.
2. Metal casing - cylindrical metal casing with a rounded top. Completely hollow, large amounts of erosion.
3. Coil coupling- hexagonal screw top visible, remainder of screw encased in thick, coiled wires. Heavily eroded.
4. Radio component - Large metal box which is shaped like a rectangle, except halfway along the shape shifts down a few cm so it looks like two halves of a rectangle that didn’t meet exactly in the centre. Inside the box sit two cylinders held by rectangular frames at each end. The frames have a number of holes designed to hold wooden dowel pieces and square metal rods. The pieces are in varying states of remaining in the holes or fallen to the base of the box. The cylinders themselves are covered in continuous circular grooves.

Belt retainer: large, rectangular buckle (hollow/no pin) with rounded edges. Eroded on most sides and particularly on one end.

Long bone or rib fragment.

Skull bone fragment ?

Long bone fragment.

Very small fragment.

Long bone fragment.

Tooth, premolar LP1. Cusps very worn. SK5

Rib fragments.

Skull fragment.

Bird bones ?

Bone or shell ? fragment.

First rib R. SK 10

Rib fragment.

Skull fragment with suture. Fits with frags from spit 6. SK6

Vertebra. Part of axis.

Skull fragment. SK 5 ? (Storage tub says SK 7)

Skull fragment. SK 5 ? (Storage tub says SK 7)

R. scapula. SK10

L. Humerus. Shaft. SK 10

Radius, proximal end and shaft. SK 10

R. Temporal zygomatic process. SK 6

Skull, frontal part (calvarium). SK 5

Skull fragment. Fits with left side of occipital suture of BAT 4665. SK 6

Skull fragment. Left side of foramen magnum. SK 6

Animal bone, unid.

Skull. SK ?

Unid. animal bone frag.

Unid. bone frags.

Tooth.

Carpal bone. R. Os trapezium. SK 7

Distal end of metacarpal/tarsal bone.

Unid. bone fragments.

Unid. bone fragment.

Bird bone fragments?

Tibia, articular surface. (Animal ?)

Bird ? fragments.

Lower jaw fragment. (? Animal).

Tooth with root. Animal

Mandible fragment. ??Unid.

L. First rib. Juvenile.

Skull ?

Bird bone.

Vertebra frag .

Carpal bone. R. Os hamatum. SK 10 (or SK 7)

Bird bone.

Atlas. Fits best with BILS 100. (SK 5 mini square)

Candlestick - part of shank and overflow tray

Lead capsule. Circular piece of lead, possibly part of a bale seal, with sections cut out to form 4 lugs enabling it to be folded over the neck of a bottle. Each lug has the edge rolled to enclose an iron wire, remnants of which remain. Inner surface bears imprint resembling woven textile.

Metal model of HMAS Sydney II.
See File MA-211/75 for history.

MH rego: NG 1313

Square, crystal serviette ring. Raised square design. Press-moulded

Triangular, crystal serviette ring. Raised square design. Press-moulded

Ship model. Representation of the Don Francisco as a slaver before becoming James Matthews. Scale 1:48 or 1/4”: 1 ft. Shows internal arrangements & slave platform as envisaged from research.

Scrap book/photo album

Ship model of SMS Emden (light cruiser) (and unused parts of model kit). Representing damage to superstructure as wrecked at Cocos Is 1914. Plastic model kit adapted. Scale 1:350.

Brass Shell casing frag - base

Timber pieces with fastening holes, iron stained.

Iron pot, part only. Heavily corroded.

Pot sherd

Jug sherd, Westerwald ware

Pot sherd

Pot sherd

Base of jug (beardman?)

Beardman jug medallion fragment

Jug base fragment (beardman?)

Miscellaneous ceramic fragments

Lead ball. Lead sheathing moulded into ball. Possibly used as a weapon (cf ‘morning star’). Has square nail holes in it, made after being moulded into shape.

Jug body sherd

Iron spike

Nails in concretion

Iron concretion (1 object)

Iron concretion. Circular (nail impressions ?)

Ballast stone - possible portico block

Stone - ballast ?

Brick

Brick, part

Coins. 1 x 2 cents; 3 x 5 cents; 1 x 10 cents. Australian mint.

Glass/metal costume ring