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Remnants of glass bottles, a ceramic bottle, a tin can, and a cannon ball fall into this classification. These post-wreck materials provide clues related to historic inlet movement and catastrophic storm events contributing to site formation prior to modern channel dredging. Their presence indicates a period or periods during the mid to late 19th century and early 20th century when the shipwreck site was open to intrusive materials. Based on cartographic evidence one such period was in 1927 when the Beaufort Inlet channel flowed over shipwreck site 31CR314. Subsequent nautical charts show that site exposure was relatively brief for by 1928 the shipwreck began to bury and stayed protected until the early 1980's when its modern exposure began. Recent exposure is linked to the dredging of the navigation ship channel, a process that removes sand from the ebb tidal delta and alters the historic offshore inlet bar. |
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