Original scientific paper
Photography-Based Documentation Methods in Underwater Archaeology as Applied at the Veruda Wreck Near Pula
Luka Bekić
orcid.org/0000-0002-9200-0176
; International Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Zadar B. Petranovića 1, Zadar, Croatia
Roman Scholz
; Römisch-Germanische Kommission Frankfurt/Main des Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Palmengartenstraße 10-12. 60325 Frankfurt a.M.
Mladen Pešić
; International Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Zadar B. Petranovića 1, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
The island of Veruda - also referred to colloquially as Monks’ Island -
is a favourite holiday destination for the inhabitants of the Croatian city
of Pula. Archaeologists with the International Centre for Underwater
Archaeology in Zadar (ICUA) surveyed the Veruda area in the autumn
of 2013. They identified a mound of ballast stones that appeared to
be from a shipwreck. Small archaeological artefacts and the remains
of the structure of a wooden vessel were discovered under the ballast
stones. By 2016 ICUA Zadar and the German Archaeological
Institute (DAI) had jointly initiated the Veruda excavation project.
An entirely novel system of digital photogrammetry documentation
was developed and used during the excavation in the spring of 2016.
In this manner the complete wooden structure was revealed and a
very precise 3D model and drawings were produced. Many artefacts
were recovered in the course of the excavation, and it appears that the
ship carried a cargo of scrap metal, mostly smelted tin and copper and
some copper and bronze intermediate products. A few small sherds of
post-medieval pottery and glass can be dated to the second half of the
sixteenth and early seventeenth century.
Keywords
Veruda; shipwreck; excavation; documentation; photogrammetry; 3D model
Hrčak ID:
212904
URI
Publication date:
12.11.2018.
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