H.L. Hunley Site Assessment
Lenihan DJ, Russell MA, Neyland RS. 1998. H.L. Hunley Site Assessment. Submerged Resources Center Professional Reports. Cultural Resources Management Professional Papers Number 62. Submerged Cultural Resources Unit, Santa Fe, NM
In April 1996, the National Park Service (NPS) was ta~;ked with conducting an assessment survey of a vessel purported to be the Confederate submarine II.L. Hunley located in outer Charleston Harbor. The NPS Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (SCRU), in cooperation with the South Carolina Institute or Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) and the US Naval Historical Center (NHC:) entered into joint field operations w May and part of June 1996. The objectives as stated in the NPS generated research design were to determine: 1. If the cultural remains at coordinates identified by the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) were Hunley. 2. If the remains were substantially intact and could be safely raised for conservation and display. Fieldwork conducted hy the joint federal and state underwater archeology team determined the vessel was indeed Hunley, that it was substantially intact and that raising was a feasible and, in fact, recommended alternative for preservation. This report discusses the survey operations conducted over the area using nondestructive remote sensing instrumentation, excavation procedures, analyses of cultural materials recovered or observed in situ and the associated contextual environment. It also presents the rationale for recommended site-treatment options.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Lenihan, Daniel; Russell, Matthew; Neyland, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 1998
- Units
- HIST
- Keywords
- Cultural Resources, ehistory, H.L. Hunley, submerged, U.S.S. Housatonic