Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation at Uluburun

Uluburun Home, Artifact & Image Gallery, Shipwreck Site Plan


Anchors

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The wreck site as viewed from the deeper end(east) showing displaced anchors originally stowed near the bow. (Photo: INA)
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Lifting balloons raising some of the wrecks stone anchors. (Photo: INA)
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A large stone anchor weighing approx. 220 kg.. One of 24 recovered from the wreck. All but two of the smallest anchors are of sandstone. (Photo: INA)
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A large stone anchor. (Photo: INA)
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A large stone anchor. (Photo: INA)
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One of two small limestone anchors found on the wreck, weighing between 21 and 25 kg..(Photo: INA)
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