Claire BarnesThe newly-discovered ships were built in the lifetime of the #LadyOfClare. Household accounts from #ClareCastle in #Suffolk record purchase of fish from Iceland, candlewax from Lübeck, & wine from the Rhine.
When we republished her biography, #ForHerGoodEstate, our map showed the barrels arriving from Northern Europe...
on a ship like the C13th Bossholmen cog, here drawn by Jon Adams & photographed by Kester Keighley:
https://cma.soton.ac.uk/when-is-a-cog-not-a-cog/
