MikeDec 19
#georgemelly #tredegarhouse #surrealism #breconjazz #thechilternfeetwarmers #thefeetwarmers #convulsivebeauty #tredegarhouseandpark #jazz #surreal #surrealistpainting #newport #newportship
Show threadClaire BarnesDec 10, 2023
"More than 500 years underground, gone through cleaning, conservation, soaked in wax and freeze-dried - and yet these isotope signatures are still in the timbers... vessels and timber structures that previously didn't date with traditional ring dendrochronology can now potentially be dated with oxygen isotope or stable isotope dendrochronology."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67302907
H/T @iuculano
#dendrochronology #NewportShip #15thCentury #MedievalShip #MaritimeHistory #medieval @medievodons @histodons
Newport medieval ship's timber dated to within months

Historians believe the 15th Century vessel is as historically significant as the Mary Rose.

BBC News
Claire BarnesJan 20, 2023

The wine-trading #NewportShip, which sank in the #RiverUsk c.1469, has just returned to #Newport - in 2,500 pieces, after #TimberConservation in Portsmouth by the #MaryRose team. Now to find a site for reassembly & display of this great future tourist attraction! Superb storytelling & imagery in the 3 min video at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64151535

#MedievalShip #ShipConstruction #MaritimeHistory #archaeology #15thCentury #WineTrade #NewportCastle #medieval #jigsaw #medievodons @medievodons

Newport Ship: Medieval vessel is 'world's largest 3D puzzle'

Experts believe the preserved 15th Century vessel is as historically significant as the Mary Rose.

BBC News
Rosie WaltersJan 20, 2023

‘3D medieval puzzle’: Newport ship to be reassembled from 2,500 pieces of timber

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/19/3d-medieval-puzzle-newport-ship-reassembled-2500-pieces-timber

#Archaeology #MedievalShip #NewportShip #Newport #Usk

‘3D medieval puzzle’: Newport ship to be reassembled from 2,500 pieces of timber

Oak and beech 15th-century vessel is being returned to Welsh city where it was found in riverside mud in 2002

The Guardian
Rosie WaltersJan 20, 2023

Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak and the ship of state

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/jan/19/ben-jennings-on-rishi-sunak-and-the-ship-of-state-cartoon

#13YearsToryMisrule #Sunak #Gove #LevellingUp #NewportShip

Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak and the ship of state – cartoon

PM and Michael Gove go north, while levelling up funds stay mainly in the south

the Guardian
Claire BarnesDec 13, 2022

The #medieval seal of #Shoreham in Sussex refers to the town as Hulkesmouth, after the #ship type depicted, a hulc.
https://mastodon.world/@rgallen/109392527686871617

Wonderful discussion of the many images & archaeological hopes from the #NewportShip project:
'In Search of the Hulc...' https://www.newportship.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Newsletter-June-2019.pdf#page=5

I haven't seen details of the #clinker #hull of the #13thCentury #MortarWreck in #Dorset; #MedievalMastodon is it a hulc?

#WaxSeal #MedievalShip #ShipConstruction #MaritimeHistory #medievodons @medievodons

Richard Allen (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The birdsite may be close to foundering on the rocks, but this beautiful depiction of a 14th-century ship on one of our #medieval #seals at Magdalen College, Oxford, is still sailing strong after almost 700 years! #medievodons #histodons #archives @histodons 📷 Shoreham 17

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