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News: Gleaning clues to pre-historic Portsmouth
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Submitted by PaulM on Saturday, 30 August 2003 Page Views: 1024
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  The search for prehistoric Portsmouth is set to begin as Britain's smallest warship delves into the Solent's past. Archaeologists say the search for signs of Stone Age life is one of the most important quests into signs of early man in Britain.
They hope to throw up proof of life in the Solent from 10,000 years ago when the famous waterway was little more than a river bed and what is now Portsmouth was miles inland.
The navy is hoping to find scores of objects from shipwrecks when tiny survey boat Gleaner scours the seabed.
But historians are particularly excited about the much earlier relics they believe the sailors will find from around 10,000 to 6,000BC.
Whitehall is sending Gleaner out for a fortnight, starting on Monday, as the first step in years of work to find the best route into harbour for the city's super-carriers. The navy wants to know what lies on the bottom of the Solent so it does not steamroller through millennia of history.
Tiny Gleaner – barely 50ft long and so small as not to merit HMS but HMSML, Her Majesty's Survey Motor Launch – is fitted with sophisticated sonar and survey kit which can 'look' through the mud and silt for artefacts.
Source: The News, Portsmouth 30 August 2003
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