Cattewater Wreck Archive

The Cattewater Wreck was discovered in 1973 during channel dredging in the Cattewater, Plymouth, Devon. The site was the first wreck to be designated by the UK Government under the 1973 Protection of Wreck Act and is believed to be an unidentified armed merchantman of the first half of the 16th century.
The site was partly excavated between 1975 and 1978. Most of the site documentary archive and much of the material archive were later deposited with the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.
The Cattewater Wreck Archive Project aimed to improve the long term care and management of the Cattewater Wreck Excavation Archive held by Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (called the City Museum from now on). The Project was grant funded by English Heritage's National Heritage Protection Commissions Programme (Project Number: 5439 MAIN), under the provisions of Section 45 of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.
The main objective of this part of the Project was archive consolidation; a formal audit and indexing of the documentary archive and all associated artefacts to create a formal record of the present archive. A secondary objective was the improvement of the physical storage of the archive to better meet modern physical collection management standards.

卡特沃特沉船于1973年在德文郡普利茅斯的卡特沃特航道疏浚过程中被发现。该遗址是英国政府在1973年《沉船保护法》下首次指定的沉船遗址，据信为16世纪上半叶的一艘未识别武装商船。该遗址于1975年至1978年间部分挖掘。大部分的遗址文档档案和大部分的物质档案后来被存放在普利茅斯市博物馆和艺术画廊（以下简称市博物馆）。卡特沃特沉船档案项目旨在提升普利茅斯市博物馆和艺术画廊所持有的卡特沃特沉船挖掘档案的长期保管与管理。该项目由英格兰遗产国家遗产保护委员会计划（项目编号：5439 MAIN）资助，依据1979年《古代遗迹和考古区域法》第45条的规定。本部分项目的主要目标是档案整合；对文档档案及所有相关文物进行正式审计和索引，以创建现有档案的正式记录。次要目标是改善档案的物理存储条件，以更好地满足现代物理收藏管理标准。