Site details

Caesarea South Anchorage Shipwreck

PK	C6771
TITLE	Caesarea South Anchorage Shipwreck
WGS84	32.440046° N, 34.876615° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	32.440046, 34.876615
LON/LAT	34.876615, 32.440046

DMS

32° 26' 24.1656" N

34° 52' 35.814" E

W3W	workshop, saucepan, funnels
UTM	36 S, 676418.01, 3590763.28
EGSA87	1524885, 3641497

Elevation m	2
Elevation feet	6.6
Region	Levant

GENERAL SITE TYPE Shipwreck

TYPE

1. Shipwreck. Galili et al. [2011], 69 'An underwater survey in the south anchorage of Caesarea ... brought up an assemblage of several stone anchors with a single hole ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
a. Galili et al. [2011]: 69, ?

NOTE

1. The Caesarea South Anchorage assemblage may be a case of jettisoned cargo rather than a wreck. It is the finding of the anchors that suggests that this may have been a shipwreck.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Galili et al. [2011]: Galili, Ehud with Noel Gale and Baruch Rosen. ‘Bronze Age Metal Cargoes off the Israeli Coast’, Skyllis (2) pp. 64-73. January 11, 2011., 'IV. Caesarea south anchorage assemblage', pg. 69. Online here.