The Mahogany Ship Rob Simpson’s Sites 1, 2 and 3 Queries and Answers T here have been queries over the 18 years I have had this project, and I will list some, with replies: Q: Shipwrecks would be in water. A: Several shipwrecks were reported high and dry in the Warrnambool sand dunes (hummocks) in the nineteenth century. Q: You are not using aerial archaeology . A: Allow one of the greatest pioneers of archaeology, Sir Leonard Woolley , to define aerial archaeology in his archaeological classic Digging Up the Past : ‘Nowadays air photographs bring to light masses of evidence invisible to one who stands upon the ground.’ That is precisely what I am doing. Reference: Woolley, L. (1930) Digging Up the Past . Penguin Books Ltd , Great Britain. (p. 28). Q: Aerial archaeology is not a valid method for finding a shipwreck buried on land. A: The confusion must result from the fact that aerial archaeology is not a suitable method for findin...