Mahogany Ship There have been queries over the past 18 years. Some are listed 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 finding shipwrecks in the sea. However, the Mahogany Ship was not reported in the sea, but on land. (It would...
Mahogany Ship