{"id":236808,"date":"2016-09-20T06:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=236808"},"modified":"2016-09-20T06:06:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T20:06:03","slug":"uog-professor-helps-discover-hks-oldest-maritime-artifact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-professor-helps-discover-hks-oldest-maritime-artifact\/","title":{"rendered":"UOG professor helps discover HK\u2019s oldest maritime artifact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-236808 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-professor-helps-discover-hks-oldest-maritime-artifact\/uog-pix-1-3\/'>uog-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-236809'>\n\t\t\t\tAn ancient Chinese anchor stock from the Song Dynasty was found submerged underwater near Basalt Island, Hong Kong. The stock was excavated in July by Dr. Bill Jeffery and the Hong Kong Underwater Heritage Group. (Contributed Photos)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-professor-helps-discover-hks-oldest-maritime-artifact\/uog-pix-2-4\/'>uog-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-236810'>\n\t\t\t\tThe ancient Chinese anchor stock is displayed at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-professor-helps-discover-hks-oldest-maritime-artifact\/uog-pix-3-2\/'>uog-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-236811'>\n\t\t\t\tConservator Paul Harrison from the Hong Kong Maritime Museum chips away at the barnacles, rocks, and hard matter accumulated on the surface of a centuries-old 6 ft.-long cast iron British cannon which found off the coast of Hong Kong this summer. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-professor-helps-discover-hks-oldest-maritime-artifact\/uog-pix-4-2\/'>uog-pix-4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-236812'>\n\t\t\t\tDr. Bill Jeffery , first from the left, stands with staff from the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and Hong Kong maritime Museum with the ancient Chinese anchor stock. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/uog-professor-helps-discover-hks-oldest-maritime-artifact\/uog-pix-5-2\/'>uog-pix-5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-236813'>\n\t\t\t\tBack row, from left to right: Guilhem Malfre, Mr. Leung, Wai Yuen, Vincent Tong, and Jamie Yeung. Front row, from left to right: Simon Lau, Rick Chan, Bill Jeffery, Paul Harrison, and Marco Li. Members of the Hong Kong Underwater Heritage Group pose with the British cannon found in Hong Kong&#8217;s waters.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>University of Guam Associate professor of Anthropology Dr. Bill Jeffery recently helped discover and excavate Hong Kong\u2019s oldest maritime artifact\u2014an anchor stock that dates back to China\u2019s Song Dynasty. <\/p>\n<p>Jeffery and a team of about nine local divers from Hong Kong two years ago were surveying ceramics in the eastern part of Hong Kong\u2019s waters off the coast of Basalt Island when they stumbled upon the anchor stock\u2014a crossbeam mounted to the top of an anchor. <\/p>\n<p>Covered in barnacles, rocks, and other hard matter accumulated on the outer surface, the anchor stock dates back nearly 1,000 years and was excavated in July by Jeffery and the Hong Kong Underwater Heritage Group. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 2,000 years, ships would have been sailing through Hong Kong waters,\u201d he said, rounding the southern tip of Hong Kong and sailing west into what is now called Guangzhou, which, many years ago, served as a trade hub for the surrounding areas. <\/p>\n<p>Located less than two miles away from the anchor stock site and sunken beneath 40 meters of water, Jeffery and the Hong Kong Underwater Heritage Group this summer also excavated a 6 ft.-long cast iron British cannon not older than a couple hundred years, Jeffery said. <\/p>\n<p>Both artifacts are now housed at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. Jeffery hopes that with these two new discoveries, the government and people of Hong Kong will invest more resources into underwater surveys in search of ancient artifacts sitting just a few feet from the shoreline. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cArcheology doesn\u2019t stop at the waterline,\u201d Jeffery said, noting the cultural significance of maritime artifacts waiting to be found just below the ocean\u2019s waves. \u201cNot much as been done to look for or survey for materials underwater so it\u2019s important to show Hong Kong that there are artifacts in the water. And with the techniques and sophisticated technology, it\u2019s relatively easy to survey and excavate.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>For more on this story, visit www.uog.edu\/faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Guam Associate professor of Anthropology Dr. Bill Jeffery recently helped discover and excavate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":236809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13465,13466,295,445],"class_list":["post-236808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-basalt-island","tag-bill-jeffery","tag-hk","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}