It’s a mystery how the ship ended up in Wales, buried under mud for 534 years. But it is the most important late-medieval vessel to be discovered.
NEWPORT, Wales — It is a ship with no name, none we know today. How it ended up in this port town, buried under mud for 534 years, is a mystery.to be discovered. Now the hard part is finding a forever home for it — and putting its 2,500 pieces back together.
The original ship was at least 100 feet long, maybe 120 feet overall, and could have carried the equivalent of 225,000 bottles of wine. The shipbuilders likely constructed the whole vessel without the use of a single saw blade, employing instead axes and adzes, mallets and wedges. All of it built by eye, no blueprint, no paper plans.
The Newport Medieval Ship was discovered in 2002, when contractors building a performing arts center were excavating the shoreline of the River Usk, driving down concrete piles , before they uncovered what appeared to be wooden flotsam.These were in fact immense timbers, still joined by thousands of wrought-iron nails: a keel, frame, planking, stringers.of the University of Wales, was called in that very first day, when everything was still half buried in muck. “We found a boat,” he wrote.
The 1,000 artifacts found on the bilge — lice combs, a silver French coin, rat droppings, pointy shoes with curly toes, flowering heather, a helmet with a Latin inscription — have also been put under the microscope.The crew — 40 or 60? Likely Portuguese? — ate oysters, pomegranates and salted fish, based on bones and seeds recovered. The sailors slept beside the livestock they slaughtered to eat on the weeks-long passages.
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