Wooden Boat Under 911 World Trade 30 Feet

wooden boat under 911 world trade 30 feet

A few timbers were sent back to new york, just 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of the world trade center, to the tree ring laboratory at columbia university's lamont-doherty earth observatory in palisades, new york. researchers at the lab dried the fragments slowly in a cold room and cut thick slices of the wood to get a clear look at the tree. A wooden ship unearthed at the world trade center site is dated to revolutionary-era philadelphia, according to clues contained in tree rings.. The vessel was discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the world trade centre site. the area under excavation had not been dug out when the original twin towers were built in the.

wooden boat under 911 world trade 30 feet At 22 feet (6.7 meters) below today's street level, in a pit that would become an underground security and parking complex, excavators found the mangled skeleton of a long-forgotten wooden ship.. By wednesday, the outlines made it plain: a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the world trade center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to light at 175 water street..