Boring the Isle of Wight
I had the pleasure of meeting Marine Archaeologist Paola Palma today (pictured left, with pier project manager Richard Gribble on the right). No, she wasn’t boring, far from it. The Piddocks were boring. We were inspecting some of the sections of old pile retrieved from Yarmouth Pier. They show damage from Gribbles and Piddocks. Ship Worm are suspects in the whole affair too, though possibly not in this section of pile. Boring though the Piddocks may be, along with the Gribbles they were credited by Paola as intelligent creatures, and that was immediately obvious to me as they have carefully mapped the Isle of Wight in the pile. Clever stuff.
Tags: Gribble, maps, piddock, yarmouth pier
I had the pleasure of meeting Marine Archaeologist Paola Palma today (pictured left, with pier project manager Richard Gribble on the right). No, she wasn’t boring, far from it. The Piddocks were boring. We were inspecting some of the sections of old pile retrieved from Yarmouth Pier. They show damage from Gribbles and Piddocks. Ship Worm are suspects in the whole affair too, though possibly not in this section of pile. Boring though the Piddocks may be, along with the Gribbles they were credited by Paola as intelligent creatures, and that was immediately obvious to me as they have carefully mapped the Isle of Wight in the pile. Clever stuff.
Tags: Gribble, maps, piddock, yarmouth pier
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