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The Swash Channel Wreck, Dorset: Tree-Ring Analysis of Ship Timbers |
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Historic England Research Reports
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
This report summarises work undertaken to assess and sample in situ timbers of a wreck known as the Swash Channel Wreck, lying underwater in the approaches to Poole Harbour, Dorset, with a view to providing precise dating evidence and a likely provenance for the timbers, to assist in characterising, and possibly identifying the wreck. Samples were taken from framing timbers exposed on the seabed to complement a single treering date from one of two timbers sampled in 2005, soon after the wreck's designation under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. Tree-ring series from two of the newly sampled framing timbers have been correlated with mean sequences from Germany, the Netherlands, and a previously sampled wreck off the south coast of England. The dating suggests that the parent timbers were felled during AD 1628, and appears to confirm a German or Dutch origin for the framing timbers employed in the ship's construction. |
Author: |
Nigel Nayling
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Publisher: |
Historic England
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Dorset SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2010
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Locations: |
Site: |
Swash Channel Wreck |
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Dorset |
District: |
Dorset |
Parish: |
STUDLAND |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 405193, 85098 (Easting, Northing)
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OASIS Id: |
englishh2-141335 |
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106-2010 |
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A4 heat-bound report of 16pp.
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Created Date: |
18 Aug 2017 |