Galloper Offshore Wind Farm 6

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• Last updated: 02 July 2019
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Summary

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Galloper Wind Farm Limited to undertake the mapping and recovery of aircraft wreckage located close to foundations for the Offshore Substation Platform. The fieldwork was undertaken using a Work class Remotely Operated Vehicle (WROV) and crane mounted clam shell grab in January 2017 to map the site and to recover archaeological material considered to be at risk of impact by the development. A total of 177 finds were recovered and subjected to specialist analysis. These were interpreted as being part of the tail and upper fuselage of an unidentified B-17F or G, probably lost between spring 1943 and summer 1944. A single human remain, a fragment of mandible (jaw bone), was part of the recovered materials and could be from one of the aircrew. Most of the finds recovered were small, fragmentary and in poor condition and no intact aircraft structure was located. The available evidence suggests that although small fragments may remain buried within the impact area, there is unlikely to be a substantial buried wreckage. The available evidence also suggests that the crash site is likely to be widely dispersed, probably as a result of the aircraft breaking up in the air and/or destructive post-site formation processes.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2021-05-06
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• Harvest GUID: 2369c1d8-9994-3330-b1e4-44ad1f32684d
• Extent: Latitude: 2.0208° to 2.0206°
• Extent: Longitude: 51.9519° to 51.9521°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2019-07-02 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2019-06-06 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2019-07-02 (revision)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Archaeology Data Service (originator, custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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