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Stone anchors (composite type) from the Saurshtra coast, India: An indicator of ancient ports and sea routes

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Title Stone anchors (composite type) from the Saurshtra coast, India: An indicator of ancient ports and sea routes
 
Creator Gaur, A.S.
Sundaresh
Tripati, S.
 
Subject archaeology
underwater exploration
anchors
indicators
harbours
navigation
 
Description Marine archaeological investigations on the Saurashtra coast specially at Dwarka, Bet Dwarka, Armada and Somnath brought to light a large number of stone anchors of various type which include composite, grapnel and ring-stone types. The present paper deals with the composite anchors found from Dwarka 34, Bet Dwarka 25, Armada 2 and from Somnath 5. Most of them are made of locally available rock, limestone. On the basis of their shape and perforation on the anchors, three stages of their evolution have been recorded. During early stage these might have been used for long voyages, however, at later stage this type of anchors were used by fishermen only for short voyages as around 8th century AD grapnel anchors, suitable for long voyage were introduced on the Indian coast which had capacity to hold the large size boat in the sea. On the basis of similar findings from other Indian sites we suggest a time bracket between early historical period to till recent past for these anchors
 
Date 2008-07-02T07:31:20Z
2008-07-02T07:31:20Z
2004
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Bulletin of the Australian Institute of Maritime Archaelogy, Vol.28; 125-132p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1175
 
Language en
 
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Publisher The Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology