An “incredible” Tudor shipwreck constitute on mudflats inwards Kent past times local volunteers looking for demolished Second World War pillboxes has been given protection.
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| The medieval wreck discovered past times volunteers looking for war-time pillboxes has been given protection [Credit: Mark Harrison, Timescapes/PA] |
Experts from Wessex Archaeology, alongside the assist of volunteers from the local grouping Timescape, surveyed the exposed remains, which measured to a greater extent than than 12 metres long together with 5 metres broad (40ft past times 16ft). They likewise dug ii trenches revealing good preserved hull timbers.
Samples of the historic menses of the woods revealed i oak plank comes from woodland inwards southern Great Britain together with was felled inwards 1531, piece other oak samples were tentatively dated to the 16th century.
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| Local archeology grouping volunteers saw timbers of the ship appearing out of the sand [Credit: Mark Harrison, Timescapes/PA] |
It is hoped an digging of the wreck, which lies on the inter-tidal mudflats, taking house this calendar week volition uncover prove of the ship’s cargo together with personal effects belonging to the men who sailed inwards her.
Mark Harrison, manager of Timescapes, said: “Our grouping of volunteers was looking for exploded World War II pillboxes along the Kent coast. Adjacent to a lump of exploded concrete, nosotros were amazed to come across the timbers of a ship appearing out of the sand. We reported the notice to Historic England together with are pleased that what turned out to hold out a medieval wreck has been given protection together with that this digging could nation us to a greater extent than most its story.”
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| Two trenches revealed good preserved hull timbers [Credit: Historic England/PA] |
It provides prove of Tudor together with early on Stuart shipbuilding techniques. And it is prove of the belatedly medieval manufacture inwards copperas, or dark-green vitriol, which is hydrated ferrous sulphate that was used inwards the textile manufacture every bit a dye fixative together with the manufacture of ink, experts said.
Copperas plant are known at Whitstable from 1565 together with it is possible the Tankerton Beach wreck was engaged inwards transporting the cloth earlier existence abandoned at the coast inwards an expanse of what was tidal tabular array salt marsh.
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| It is hoped an digging this calendar week volition plough upward personal effects together with cargo of the shipwreck [Credit: Mark Harrison, Timescapes/PA] |
Heritage Minister Michael Ellis said: “The Tankerton wreck is a marvellous uncovering that volition compass us some other chance to uncover to a greater extent than most what life at ocean was similar hundreds of years ago. It is of import that nosotros protect it to larn to a greater extent than most our impressive maritime history together with ensure that it is preserved for futurity generations.”
Source: ITV [July 17, 2018]
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