Claire Barnes

One #shipwreck recently excavated in #Sweden was built from timber felled in 1346; a second about ten years later. The analysis by @dendro_dk shows that both were trading far from where the wood was grown and the ships were probably built. Both were cogs, the all-purpose trading vessels of Northern Europe - like these replicas under sail.
https://arkeologerna.com/two-unique-medieval-shipwrecks-discovered-in-sweden/

#cog #medieval #ship #14thCentury #dendrochronology #medievodons @medievodons

Two unique medieval shipwrecks discovered in Sweden

The remains of two medieval merchant vessels, known as cogs, were discovered over the summer in Varberg in Sweden during an archaeological excavation. They have now been securely dated for the first time and analyses show that the ships were built outside of Scandinavia in the mid-14th century. Elisabet Schager, archaeologist and project leader of...

Dec 17, 2022 at 11:40amWeb
Show threadClaire BarnesDec 17, 2022

The 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/

#ShipType #ShipConstruction #MaritimeArchaeology

When is a cog not a cog? - C.M.A.

When is a cog not a cog? Among the many amazing shipwrecks discovered in the last two seasons of the Black Sea MAP, one of the most impressive visually as well as historically is the Medieval ship, probably of Mediterranean

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Show threadBeko Pharm (deprecated)Dec 21, 2022
@ClaireFromClare @dendro_dk so cool, thanks :D The cog ship is totally in my hyper focus for some days now 😜