You're a wood worker...
The striations on the wood staves are deep. Maybe too deep to be called striations.
Were they formed by a drawknife? It would have to be drawn across the shortest dimensions. Not likely.
We see barrel bands in place.
Like old wood wheels the band is heated to expand and allow some pliability before being forced into place.
A simple task for a good coopers shop.
No metal bands shown?
Were staves recycled , or bands not made of iron?
Anytime I see V.O.C. I go straight to the nutmeg wars.( Probably shouldn't.)
Those enslaved in the trade tasked with making tubs or barrels (the video showing a cask lid piece , staves should show a groove where it was seated(?)) made do as they could for resources of course.
Dark days for them.
Ironic as the wreck site is dark too. Awash in currents that can't be stopped any more than the oppression was back when.
The monopoly at the time was hard won and hard preserved. At an awful cost.
The Dutch ruled the trade a while. How they got to that point is a study in itself. But ships and prior work for others were central.
To history a certified relic of the V.O.C. trade has considerable value.
Like most relics , a tangible evidence of a time and people and activity.
Which way the ship was headed and it's purpose is the next question.
The value of nutmeg back then it may have held a fortune of it. In nutmeg. (!)
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