Research Projects Could Be Roadkill In Revision of Massive Highway Bill

摘要

When engineers rebuilding a beach near Lewes, Delaware, in 2004 began finding bits of Colonial-era pottery mixed in with the sand, archaeologists quickly realized they had found a historic shipwreck. Historians believe it is the British vessel Severn, sunk by a storm in 1774, and the 45,000 artifacts discovered to date are "world class," says David Clarke, the state archaeologist for the Delaware Department of Transportation. "Nowhere else do we have this kind of stuff from this period."