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Ancient Phoenician ship surveyed for rescue bid

over a fortnight to log any cracks and fissures across the ship, which lies 60 metres from Mazarron's Playa de la Isla.

Later this year, the experts from Valencia University will recommend how to protect and retrieve the wreck.

Its new home would be the National Museum of Marine Archaeology in Cartagena where Mazarron I - restored 30 years ago - is currently on display.

It was discovered by chance in 1988 during the construction of a new marina.

Historians have used the Mazarron II, probably made around 580 BC, to document how the Phoenicians shipped metals such as lead from the Iberian Peninsula.

After it sank, it remained buried in sediment for more than 2,000 years until changes in currents unearthed it in 1994.

It now lies under about 1.7 metres of water surrounded by sandbags and a metal structure built for protection.

The structure however is sinking into the sand at a faster pace than the wreck and threatened to crush it, so it was partially removed.

Pedro Valero, president of the 'Friends of the Twin Wheels' association said: “We are lucky to still have them due to the efforts of farmers over hundreds of years and they are the only examples of double waterwheels left in Spain.” He said he hopes that a new visitors centre being planned will finally come to fruition.

Music in the air

THE 135th edition of Valencia’s International Music Band Contest has started at the Palau de les Arts auditorium.

The competition, running until Sunday, involves 16 bands from as far away as Portugal and Columbia.

Accidental Find

A CORDOBA area farmer stumbled on a large ancient Roman artefact weighing three tons. He discovered the huge stone relic used for pressing olives, while uprooting an ancient olive tree. The mill stone is about 2,000 years old and it has a circular shape with three large grooves, possibly cracks, running down its side.

A circular track is carved into the top, giving it the appearance of an upside-down mushroom with its stalk cut too short.

These types of olive oil mills, known as a trapetum, originated in Greece and spread throughout the ancient Roman empire. It will be restored at Baena's Municipal Museum.

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