Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Because their destination is near an island in the South China Sea, apart from Chinese scholars, there are very few truly friendly people like Liang En on the ship.

Not long after the ship went to sea, a host in the conference room on the ship began to briefly introduce the details of the underwater ruins to be surveyed today.

The underwater ruins are in very shallow waters, but because they are located near a former military zone, they have never been discovered before.

Recently, due to the expansion and construction of artificial islands on these reefs, these underwater ruins hidden under a layer of sediment have been discovered.

It has to be said that the previous flight saved a lot of distance, so after everyone had lunch on the boat, they came to a sea area, and not far away, a large sand pumping ship was roaring Working in middle school.

Soon, the ship found a place to anchor. The reason why this area was chosen as the basis for building the island was because there were reefs under the entire sea area, but this also forced the ship Liang En and the others were currently traveling on to be within a short distance of their destination. Anchored at a distance of five to six hundred meters.

"This is already the closest place to the target. If we go further, it is not impossible, but if there is a bit of wind and waves, it will easily collide with the surrounding rocks." The crew member on the ship said.

Soon, the professional divers got on a small boat and drove towards the target location. Unlike the similar records that Liang En had seen before, this kind of official excavation work could naturally be carried out openly.

This large salvage ship has a large cabin specially used by researchers. In addition to the space in the middle for scientific research and processing cultural relics, there is also a powerful air-conditioning system to ensure constant temperature and humidity in the room.

Next door to this cabin is a smaller cabin, which is also maintained with air conditioning and has tables, chairs, benches, and computers for researchers to use. Liang En and the others are now in this small cabin.

Soon, Liang En and his group of scholars on the big ship obtained the data uploaded by the sonar carried by the small ship and the first batch of photos taken by the underwater robot.

Judging from the photos, the ship should have sunk after hitting a reef, so the wreckage was scattered across the entire reef. Through the area where those things were scattered, scholars quickly determined that it was an ancient sailing ship with a displacement of 500 to 600 tons. .

"It is a pity that we cannot make further judgments without obtaining more detailed information, because there are too many ships of this tonnage. Even if we exclude some with particularly strong regional characteristics, there are still dozens of types left."

A scholar who studies ships said, and then everyone looked out the portholes at the workers who were busy connecting the water pumps on the boat and preparing to clean up the scene below.

Everyone had already planned the excavation plan before. Because the local area is full of rocks and shipwrecks are scattered everywhere, it is definitely not possible to use the kind of overall salvage technology that is used on the muddy seabed and the hull is well preserved.

Therefore, according to the plan, divers will gradually salvage all the valuable items that can be found from the seabed at this ruins, and then important island building work can continue here.

After the scholars waited on the boat for more than an hour, a small boat delivered several various containers, which were then lifted up by a crane and pushed into the cabin next to Liang En and others on a cart.

After arriving at the cabin next door, Liang En found five or six large buckets filled with water placed in the center of the cabin. Obviously, the contents were cultural relics that were not suitable for leaving the water.

Although seawater is indeed very corrosive to various things, for those things that have been soaked in water for a long time, it is not suitable to remove those things from seawater without treatment.

In addition to these water-filled containers, there are also some small square plastic frames placed on the side table, with some odds and ends inside.

"Most of these things were taken off the filter net of the water pump over there." The staff member said. "There is also a part that was fished out by divers just now while trying to salvage it."

These things are all metal items, most of which are debris from various ships, but there are also some scattered copper coins and one or two blackened silver items.

"This should be a drinking vessel for senior crew members." Looking at the largest silver cup with lotus petals inside, a gold and silver appraisal expert said immediately.

It is well known that silverware has a slight bactericidal effect and can inhibit the regeneration of microorganisms. Although the ancients did not know the reason, practice has resulted in many high-status people choosing silverware as their daily necessities.

Especially for those who need to sail long distances at sea, as long as they have money, they will prepare some silver containers as much as possible to increase their chances of survival at sea.

Judging from the exquisiteness of this silver cup, this thing is not something that belongs to ordinary people. Unfortunately, except for this silver cup, everything else looks very ordinary.

However, the ship experts over there found more information from these things. For example, judging from the style of the iron nails, it was judged that this should be a ship from China, and it was a ship after the Tang Dynasty.

After combining the style of the previous silver cup, they roughly judged that this ship should be from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, or the early Ming Dynasty.

As time went by, all kinds of things were brought into this cabin, most of them were various gadgets, such as a rusty knife with only half of it left, and other things like things that were left on the cabinet. Common copper corners or pull tabs.

For those treasure hunters, these items are the least valuable, but for archaeologists, they are very valuable. Because these daily necessities can restore the situation of those people back then.

"We found a very valuable thing." Just as everyone was sorting out the debris, the crew outside sent a cart, and the cart contained a container filled with water.

"What is this?" Liang En leaned his head over and saw a very complete white porcelain statue soaked in the container.

"Could it be a statue of Mazu?" A scholar said after taking a look at the statue, because the statue is obviously a female statue, and it does look a bit like the Dehua white porcelain Mazu statue that is often fished out of the sea.

More importantly, as one of the most influential goddesses in China, Mazu is the goddess of the sea and the protector of fisheries and maritime navigation, so it is normal to find this from the wreckage of a Chinese sailboat.

"No, this is not Mazu." Another porcelain expert observed carefully through the transparent container wall and said, "This should be a statue of Shuiyue Guanyin made of JDZ white porcelain."

Guanyin Bodhisattva is naturally one of the traditional patron saints of China, so it is understandable for travelers to carry such a statue.

Judging from the location where this statue was found, it is unlikely that the Guanyin statue was cargo carried on the ship.

However, considering that ancient people often took a statue of a god or something similar with them as spiritual sustenance when they traveled far, especially across the ocean. So it’s hard to say whether these things were enshrined on the ship or carried by the guests.