With the thought of treasure, Isle of Wight islander, Derek Williams researched ancient local wreck records. Top of his extensive wreck list was the 40-gun frigate Assurance lost in 1753 while ...returning from Jamaica with Governor Trelawny on board, whose story possibly inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Treasure Island. Derek's first dive at the western point of the Isle of Wight called "The Needles" put him on top of cannons, various wreckage and Spanish-American "Pieces of Eight", all scattered at the foot of the rock face. He reported this astonishing discovery to the authorities which resulted in the site being designated the 6th British historic protected wreck site. When the authorities decided that further professional help was needed, author and diver John Bingeman supplied his Portsmouth Royal Naval diving team, and together with David Tomalin, County Archaeologist, developed the full potential of this important site. Over the next nine years John Bingeman's team conducted annual visits to excavate the site; they successfully recovered 3,471 artefacts including cannon weighing 1½ tons. Some of these cannon post-dated the Assurance, leading to the identification of a second 38-gun frigate, the Pomone, lost in 1811. Her Captain, Robert Barrie's extensive correspondence was discovered by Paul Simpson to have been archived by Duke University, North Carolina. It features Pomone's continuous actions during the French Napoleonic wars, followed by his appointment to the 74-gun Dragon when he saw action in Chesapeake Bay during the 1812-15 war with the USA. Returning to North America as Senior Naval Officer Canada, Commodore Barrie made quite a name for himself improving the political relationship between the USA and Canada; he is remembered by the Canadian City named Barrie.Previously un-researched archaeological finds are featured, including the development of rigging blocks, gunlocks, military buttons and ship's chain pumps, all superbly illustrated, as well as the results of research into numerous other artefacts of the period. Appendices contain the transcripts of the two ship's court martials and make fascinating reading. Captains seem to be blameless while their navigating officers are held responsible even going to prison. Perhaps not surprising when tried by fellow Captains!
A new definition of 'treasure' under the Treasure Act 1996 has been introduced by the UK Government providing for a significant change to our understanding of what legally constitutes 'treasure' in ...England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Treasure Act 1996, which the new law amends, supports the preservation and protection of important archaeological finds for the benefit of the public, and this new reform represents the most substantial change to the legal framework governing 'treasure' in over a quarter of a century. This article explores this important and long-awaited reform. It examines the new definition by examining its substance and scope and by reflecting on whether this long-overdue change should be regarded as a watershed reform or a missed opportunity. In so doing, it is argued that, while the new law is welcome, it does not go far enough in meeting the criticisms and deficiencies of the old law under the Treasure Act 1996, which continue to echo today, nor does it satisfy the needs of the law of treasure for the 21st century.
The treasured things of tokelau Judith Huntsman
Journal of the Polynesian Society,
10/2017, Letnik:
126, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Drawing upon multiple lines of research in and about Tokelau - ethnography as participant-observation and conversation/discussion, documentary research in all available published sources (few) and ...unpublished materials in offices and archives, Tokelau narratives and texts, conversations with other scholars of Tokelau, and relevant anthropological literature - the late Antony Hooper and I have aimed to create a narrative of Tokelau over time and in places that speaks to both differences and continuities in Tokelau lifeways - their activities and beliefs, ideas and relationships. This essay is a contribution to and illustration of our endeavours, focusing on those particular things that Tokelau people treasure: their emblematic resources and the valued things they make from them, and their supreme valued treasures - pearl-shells ('tifa'), and the lures ('pa') and pendants ('kahoa') fashioned from them.
Treasure island Lavery, Bryony; Stevenson, Robert Louis
12/2014
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Not one of us must breathe a word of what we've found.
It's a dark and stormy night. Jim, the inn-keeper's granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor's feet sits a huge ...sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in - and her dangerous voyage begins.
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story of murder, money and mutiny, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in December 2014, in a thrilling adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
