Archaeologists are astonished by the importance of the find, near where, a map of 1797, had a pier and planned to build a lake.
New York. (EFE) .- The workers of Ground Zero in lower Manhattan have found the remains of a ship of almost ten meters long that might be of the eighteenth century and would have sunk in that area south of the city when it expanded into the Hudson River, reported the New York Times.
The newspaper notes that workers who cleaned of debris at ground zero led to the ship on Tuesday and it was buried to a depth of six to nine feet below where they were to September 11, 2001 the World Trade Center complex, built in the sixties of last century.
The architect Michael Pappalardo, AKRF Company, a those recruited for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to document the historical findings can be found in this work confirmed the discovery and said the ship could have originally been two or three times longer than the portion found.
is the largest archaeological find in this city since 1982, when they found the remains of an eighteenth century merchant ship in works Water Street in lower Manhattan. "The boat apparently dates from the mid eighteenth century and has been there for over 200 years," the paper said stressing that archaeologists of the city are impressed by the importance of the find, near where, according to a map of 1797, there was a pier and where it plans to build a lake.
But, experts said, must act quickly to rescue the ship, as its wooden hull, to no longer be protected by the earth, "can deteriorate in contact with air ", so they're covering of mud.
The lack of sun and rain that affects New York these days, however, favors the maintenance of the boat, told the newspaper the archaeologist responsible to preserve the historical heritage of New York, Doug Mackey. Among the remains, the ground zero workers have also found a large semicircular piece of metal belonging to the boat and a leather shoe of the time.
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