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    Preliminary assessment of an early historic (2000 year old) shipwreck at Godawaya, Sri Lanka

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    2011
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    Gaur, A.S.
    Muthucumaran, R.
    Chandraratne, W.M.
    Orillandeda, B.C.
    Manders, M.
    Karunarathna, S.
    Weerasinghe, P.
    Dayananda, A.M.A.
    Zainab, T.
    Sudaryadi, A.
    Ghani, K.A.B.A.
    Wahjudin, J.
    Samaraweera, N.
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    Abstract
    An international team comprised of experts in diving and underwater archaeology from Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines participated in the assessment of the shipwreck at Godawaya, Sri Lanka. The main objective of the exploration was to make assessment of the wreck site based on the data generated during the fieldwork. The surface observation suggests that the site is spread in an area of 40 m by 22 m. The important findings include various sizes of jars, carinated cooking vessels, quern stones and unidentified cargo and possible ship structure. The analysis of pottery retrieved earlier and observed during the present investigation suggests that the pottery is not similar to those found from the shipwrecks of the 10th century AD onwards. Comparative study of pottery and stone artifacts indicate a possible time bracket for this wreck between the 4th century BC and the 2nd century AD
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