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Most of the cargo other than ingots of almost pure copper was scrap
bronzes, including broken tools, cast but unfinished tools, and casting waste. (Photo:
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Molds for casting objects such as the incomplete pruning hook have been
found on Cyprus. (Photo: INA)
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A group of the ship’s adzes. (Photo: INA)
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Hoe-like objects from the cargo were probably plow shares (Photo: INA)
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Well preserved adzes from Egypt show how the Cape Gelidonya adzes would
have been hafted as in this drawing. (Photo: INA)
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Hafted with modern wood for display in the Bodrum Museum, these pick-like
objects were probably also plow shares. (Photo: INA)
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A double-bladed bronze axe from the cargo of scrap metal. (Photo: INA)
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More scrap bronze tools. (Photo: INA)
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These stone objects have been called mace-heads, but they are similar to
the heads of metal-working hammers used in parts of Africa until recently. (Photo: INA)
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French divers Frédéric Dumas (left) and Claude Duthuit look at a stone
hammer head. (Photo: INA)
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Stone hammers depicted with scrap bronze tools. All handles are modern.
(Photo: INA)
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Some of the metalworking tools on display. (Photo: INA)
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This small chisel for cutting mortises, its wooden handle still partly
preserved, may have been for shipboard repairs rather than cargo. (Photo: INA)
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Casting waste includes the bits of bronze that would have been formed in
the funnel-like openings in molds, and later cut away from the finished casts. (Photo:
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A large, flat, close-grained stone found in the middle of the ship,
larger than the surrounding ballast stones, may have been used as an anvil at a time
before iron anvils were current. (Photo: INA)
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Evidence that the ship may have carried a tinker, or itinerant smith,
includes not only the hammers, but a bronze swage, or small anvil. Sockets would have been
formed on its end, and pins hammered out in the side grooves.(Photo: INA)
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Once hammered into shape, tools were sharped with whetstones and then
polished with stone polishers, of which many were found in the living area of the wreck.
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