WTC Site 18th Century Ship Found

As workers were excavating the World Trade Center site on Tuesday morning, they found the remnants of a ship’s hull.
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WTC Site 18th Century Ship Found
Workers and members of the media inspect the hull of a late 18th/early 19th century ship found at Ground Zero (WTC) July 15, in New York. (Don Emmert/Getty Images)
7/15/2010
Updated:
10/1/2015
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Workers and members of the media inspect the hull of a late 18th/early 19th century ship found at Ground Zero (WTC) July 15, in New York. (Don Emmert/Getty Images)
As workers were excavating the World Trade Center site on Tuesday morning, they found the remnants of a ship’s hull, which archaeologists think was buried during the 1700s. Archaeologists say that the ship was most likely used with other debris as a landfill to extend the land in Lower Manhattan, reported the New York Times.

The wooden planks of the ship “so perfectly contoured that they were clearly part of a ship,” A. Michael Pappalardo, an archaeologist, told the New York Times on Wednesday.

The discovery of the ship, however, did not deter construction from moving forward as archaeologists rushed to the site to take measurements, but the wood may start to deteriorate as it is further exposed to the elements. Pieces of the ship will be taken and then will be sent to a laboratory to see how old the ship actually is, archaeologists noted.