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beaverisland.net community siteribs-and-spikes

beaverisland.net community site (incl

Close view of dark, weathered wreckage with rib-like projections on a sandy surface.

beaverisland.net community site (incl. Arranmore twinning pages). Crawled copy of https://www.beaverisland.net/Projects/Shipwreck_at_Little_Sand_Bay/ribs_and_spikes.jpg.

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

A close-up shows dark, heavily weathered material lying on a pale sandy surface. Several narrow, rib-like projections extend upward, with lighter patches and reflective highlights across the uneven surface.

A model wrote this. It was shown the image and the catalogue record together, and asked to keep them apart — what it saw is here, what the record told it is under "taken from the record" below. It is still wrong often enough to matter, about who is pictured, where, when, and what is happening. Read it as a way to find the image, never as evidence about it. If you can correct it, please do: write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com, or see how corrections work. Someone who recognises a face or a shoreline knows more than the model did.

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Taken from the record

Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.

The archive record identifies this as a photograph from a project concerning a wreck at Little Sand Bay; it was copied from the beaverisland.net community site.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The material and whether the scene is underwater or wet cannot be determined from the small image.

Rights and credit

© the site's owner; archived for research citation under fair use

Credit this to beaverisland.net when you use it.

Why this archive publishes it. beaverisland.net community site. No stated terms; published with credit and a link back.

Material goes off the web without anyone deciding that it should: a host lapses, a gallery is retired, a link stops resolving. Holding a copy — with its provenance, its checksum and its holder's terms recorded beside it — is much of why this archive exists. If you are looking for something whose original has since gone, write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com and a full-size copy of what is held here will be sent to you.

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Provenance

Held by
beaverisland.net
Collection
beaverisland.net community site
Original
https://www.beaverisland.net/Projects/Shipwreck_at_Little_Sand_Bay/ribs_and_spikes.jpg
Copy taken
2026-07-31
Title from
the note recorded at retrieval

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MasterJPEG180 × 140 px6 KB7af5ede8fb01…
AlternateJPEG180 × 140 px6 KB7af5ede8fb01…

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“beaverisland.net community site (incl”. beaverisland.net. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/photograph/ribs-and-spikes/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.

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