Newport Medieval Ship
Nigel Nayling, University of Wales Trinity St David, Toby Jones, Newport Museums and Heritage Service, 2014. (updated 2017) https://doi.org/10.5284/1044659. How to cite using this DOI
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Nigel
Nayling
Professor of Archaeology
Faculty of Humanities and Performing Arts
University of Wales Trinity St David
Lampeter
Ceredigion
SA48 7ED
Wales
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1044659
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Introduction
The Newport Ship is the most substantial late medieval vessel excavated and recovered in Britain. The ship was discovered during development on the west bank of the River Usk in Newport, South Wales in 2002. More than twenty-three metres of the clinker-built ship were recovered, along with significant artefact and environmental assemblages. Finds point to strong Iberian connections during the active life of the ship, which arrived in Newport, in the Severn Estuary, after the spring of AD 1468. The dismantling and recovery of the ship has enabled detailed recording using innovative 3D digital techniques and approaches to hypothetical reconstruction. This archive makes available this digital data along with digitised versions of site records, post-excavation documentation of the ship and specialist reports and catalogues.
Additional and updated data was added in 2017.
Select bibliography
Nayling, N. and Jones, T., 2013, The Newport Medieval Ship, Wales, United Kingdom, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
Nayling, N. and Susperregi, J., 2013, Iberian Dendrochronology and the Newport Medieval Ship, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
