Marine archaeologists working on a wreck off the coast Sicily have raised five large cannons dating back to the early 1700s. They are believed to be from a British ship sunk in 1718 at the Battle of Passaro. Alan Johnston reports.
海洋考古学家在西西里岛海岸发掘五个可追溯到18世纪早期的加农炮，据悉是一艘英国船舰在1718年帕萨罗战役战役中沉没的。艾伦?约翰斯顿报道。
The wreck is in clear waters off the town of Avola and photographs taken by divers show that the guns were lying barely covered by fine sand. They’ve been cleaned up and they are in such comparatively fine condition that in some places the barrels still gleam in the light. And the effort to identify the guns has been helped by part of an inscription on the handle of a piece of cutlery found nearby. Under what looks like an English rose, it’s possible to make out the letters L-O-N-D-O. The full word would surely read London.
这些加农炮是在阿沃拉镇附近的安全水域发现的，潜水者拍的照片显示大炮上仅覆盖了一层细沙。沙子清除后，这些大炮看起来保存完好，炮管的一些部分仍在眼光下闪光。大炮附近发现的餐具上的刻字帮助考古学家这些辨别大炮的来历，在一朵看上去像英国玫瑰的图案下面，可以看到字母L-O-N-D-O，因此这个单词的全称肯定是“伦敦”。
