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
Show threadClaire Barnes
"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
Dec 10, 2023 at 5:18amWeb