BAHS students in Chip Lagerbom and Genna Black's Marine Studies class wrapped up their unit on Underwater Archaeology with a recent visit to a fore-shore shipwreck along the Robbins Road up the Passagassawakeag River in Belfast.

For nearly twenty years, the wreck has been visited as part of the BMI program or by students in the BAHS Archaeology elective. A long-range accumulation of materials, photos, maps and reports have chronicled the wreck's recent history and its deterioration.

This season, the BMI students were tasked with forming hypotheses based on their evidence gathered from research and visitation to the site as to 1) what kind of vessel was it? 2) what was it used for? 3) how old is it? and 4) what was its fate/how did it end up where it is now?

Divided into three groups, each group will produce a detailed scale drawing of the wreck with pertinent information and photos as well as the group's consensus as to their hypotheses and gathered evidence.

"It was a beautiful fall day and the students enjoyed the muddy but interesting field trip," said Lagerbom.

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