You never know what you'll find when you excavate along the water

By adamg on Mon, 05/23/2016 - 4:40pm

Thomas Mann reports workers excavating at 121 Seaport Blvd for the waterfront's latest luxostructure today discovered they'd driven a pile right through an old wooden boat that had lain there for God knows how long.

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call me

By bostnkid on Mon, 05/23/2016 - 4:48pm.

Ishmael

Fill

By Roslindaler on Tue, 05/24/2016 - 7:35am.

Same thing happened, I believe more than once, when they were digging the central artery tunnel. Much of Boston is fill, and back in the 18th and 19th centuries fill included anything you could dump in a hole, including old rotten boats and other garbage.

Does that affect the

By anon on Tue, 05/24/2016 - 7:58am.

Does that affect the integrity of the pile? Will they have to pull it up and redrive it

Nope

By MattyC on Tue, 05/24/2016 - 9:03am.

That pile goes through whatever, all the way to bedrock. It may affect the timeline of the rest of the summer, though, depending on whether the City Archaeologist (yup, a thing) decides he needs that boat.