SDO14694 - Swash Channel Wreck; 2006 Season Report

‘This report represents the work undertaken by Bournemouth University and Poole Harbour Commissioners on the Protected Wreck site of the Swash Channel Wreck located in the approached to Poole Harbour, Dorset. It details that the articulated ship structure on the site is potentially much larger that was first though, extending for as long as 40m in a SW-NE axis and in area up to 14m in SE-NW axis, much of this is completed unrecorded. This document also suggests that in some area, as yet unquantified, the site may contain buried stratigraphy up to 2.5m deep. The report also details the results of the environmental monitoring that have occurred on the site. This work is at an early stage but to date has produced results that indicate that the site is at threat from both physical and biological degradation that is causing loss of archaeological material and subsequently information in a very short period of time.’