Report to the Australian Bicentennial Authority on the February-March 1985 Bicentennial Project Expedition to the Wreck of HMS Sirius 1790 at Norfolk Island

Author/s G.J. Henderson and M. Stanbury

Year of publication 1985

Report Number: 24

Introduction
This report describes the archaeologi cal actlvltles carried out in the field during February - March 1985 by an expedition funded by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to conduct investigations into the Wreck of HMS Sirius at Norfolk Island.

A previous report (Henderson 1984) as sembled some background about the ship and the findings of a preliminary examination of the site.

This report assembles information collected by Ian MacLeod, Myra Stanbury, Mark Staniforth, Paul Clark, Paul Brown and myself. It is intended that subsequent to further field work and archival work, a more considered final report will be produced.