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Chapter 1322 Millennium History
The reason for the sinking of the wreck is obvious, it apparently hit an underwater reef.

It was a reef protruding about 10 meters from the sea surface, and there were many hidden reefs in the waters near the reef.

In this environment, as long as there is a storm, many ships will definitely sink here.

No one knows this better than the locals, so as long as the locals are okay, they will salvage the bulk of the cargo found in the sunken ship.

"Huh? It's really not easy, but it's still well preserved?"

After Gao Qijing went into the water himself, Chen Wenzhe was able to clearly see the sunken ship through the underwater camera he stayed down.

Through analysis, Chen Wenzhe discovered that this was actually an ancient ship with six-story hull components.

This shipwreck site is located on the inner side of the reef atoll.

They also found it by accident, because they first found a piece of porcelain nearby.

This is a bluish-white glazed bowl. Chen Wenzhe looked at this glaze color as if it was a work from the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Because of the later export porcelain, it is rare to simply sell this kind of bluish-white glazed porcelain bowl. Besides, the quality of this kind of bluish-white glazed porcelain bowl is really not as beautiful as blue and white, multicolored, pastel and so on.

However, this is a complete piece of porcelain after all, and it is a real antique. After all, it has a history of thousands of years.

Besides, as long as one is found, it means that there must be more under the surrounding Haiti.

Therefore, everyone was very happy when they found a blue and white glazed porcelain bowl, because it meant that there must be a shipwreck underwater that had not been salvaged.

With a discovery, it is natural to immediately increase the search scope.

Soon, more bluish-white glazed porcelain was found in the nearby mud and sand again.

Under the seabed, on a flat sandy beach, there are densely packed porcelains on display.

Some are half-buried in the sand, and some are completely exposed to the bottom of the sea, which is really spectacular to watch.

It is a pity that these porcelains do not have any protection, so they are not well preserved.

The most obvious is the glazed surface, which has been washed and corroded by sea water for a long time, making the glazed surface matte and dull.

This kind of sea fishing porcelain is a standard style of sea fishing porcelain.

The glaze erosion of these porcelains all erodes from the part of the mouth edge where the tire glaze joins to the tire foot, and there are often white spots on the mouth edge.

Only porcelain with these characteristics is the real sea fishing porcelain.

If it is not a fake, it proves that there is really a shipwreck from the Tang and Song Dynasties here.

Soon, underwater salvage personnel once again had a major harvest.

Among the porcelain they found was a bluish-white glazed bowl engraved with the words "Made by Pan Sanlang in Renwu Zai" in regular script.

Together with some other artifacts, through research, Chen Wenzhe deduced that the sunken transport ship should be a ship from the mid-Southern Song Dynasty.

Sure enough, through the blue and white glazed porcelain scattered around, they soon discovered this huge shipwreck.

This should be a trading ship sailing from Hu Jianquan Port, passing through Hainan, crossing Southeast Asia, and preparing to sail to Europe.

And looking at the shape of the ship, it is obviously not a foreign sailing ship, but a giant wooden sailing ship made in my country.

By studying the overall structure of the sunken ship, Chen Wenzhe compared the knowledge he had learned in the past and found that this should be the first ancient ship with six-layer hull components discovered in my country.

You must know that this is a wooden boat made in the middle or early Song Dynasty.

Through this shipwreck, the exquisite skills of ancient Chinese shipbuilders are demonstrated.

In particular, the design of the watertight compartment is very distinctive, which can be said to be a new example of the traditional technology of my country's watertight compartment ship.

Such a ship is definitely of great significance for evaluating my country's ancient shipbuilding technology and its contribution to the development of world navigation.

Also, in a place close to Malacca, an ancient shipwreck of our country was unexpectedly discovered. This can explain too many things.

This is enough to show that the footsteps of our ancestors have gone farther than imagined outside.

It can be said that the sunken ships and relics found at this site are important historical relics of my country's overseas trade in the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, judging from the external situation of this legendary ship, it must have been illegally excavated many times, because the shipwreck site was severely damaged.

However, the condition of this ship is obviously better than the one that Chen Wenzhe and the others discovered before.

After preliminary trial excavation work, they easily uncovered nearly 1800 pieces of water relics.

Chen Wenzhe really didn't expect that there would be so many porcelains on this ship.

Since it is valuable, then go all out to salvage it quickly.

Therefore, he asked Gao Qijing to mobilize all professional divers to go all out to excavate and salvage the shipwreck site of the Southern Song Dynasty.

This is Chen Wenzhe's first large-scale underwater archaeological excavation in high seas. Because there is no need to excavate a large area around the sunken ship, nor to clean up a large amount of sediment, he just enters the ship to search, so the excavation speed is very fast.

It took them less than a month to unearth a total of [-] pieces of ancient porcelain out of water.

The cultural relics of this ancient shipwreck should be protected from mold removal, desalination, dehydration, reinforcement, shaping, and sealing after they are out of the water.

Restoration work will then be carried out if necessary.

Of course, the recovery and repair time to be carried out later will take a long time.

If you want to complete all the work, it will inevitably consume a lot of manpower, and even so, it will take an estimated 3 to 5 years to complete the restoration.

It will be opened to the public after that, so that people can have a glimpse of the style of ancient shipwrecks in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Of course, it is still difficult to repair this sunken ship.

But Chen Wenzhe wanted to salvage this ancient shipwreck.

Because this ship is not a shipwreck in the Song Dynasty of our country, and it is still a very rare ancient sailing ship with a six-story sealed cabin.

Such a ship is very memorable.

However, it is definitely impossible to salvage the sunken ship as a whole.

Because the excavation found that on the largest reef under the water, only the wreckage of the lower structure of the sunken ship was found, and there was no trace of the upper deck.

Based on this, it can be inferred that when the cargo ship was sailing close to the reef, the ship was lifted by the wind and waves due to mistakes in driving or handling, and was lifted into the shallow water coral bushes in the reef and ran aground, causing the hull to break.

Therefore, the excavation project of the shipwreck site in the Southern Song Dynasty will be carried out in two stages.

In the first stage, the excavation of the contents of the shipwreck site and the comprehensive surveying and mapping of the ship's hull will be completed;

The second stage is to complete the excavation of the hull. First, the hull components must be numbered and mapped.

It should be noted here that after the hull is salvaged, decomposed, extracted and transported back to the museum, desalination and dehydration protection treatment is also required to complete the restoration of the hull.

It is definitely in the first stage of salvage excavation now, and this is an important rescue excavation work.

In order to avoid the situation of the previous shipwreck, this excavation carried out multi-level and multi-method underwater cultural relics detection to avoid the omission of porcelain that may be trapped in sand.

(End of this chapter)