The Gresham Ship project : a 16th-century merchantman wrecked in the Princes channel, Thames Estuary. Volume II, Contents and context /
Some four centuries ago, an armed merchantman foundered in the Thames Estuary. It was rediscovered in 2003 as the Port of London Authority began clearing navigational hazards from the Princes Channel. Wessex Archaeology were alerted and recovered five sections of the ship's hull and four guns,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
BAR Publishing,
2016.
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| Series: | NAS monograph series ;
no. 5. BAR British series ; 606. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Some four centuries ago, an armed merchantman foundered in the Thames Estuary. It was rediscovered in 2003 as the Port of London Authority began clearing navigational hazards from the Princes Channel. Wessex Archaeology were alerted and recovered five sections of the ship's hull and four guns, as well as numerous artefacts. The first report in this two-volume set presented studies of the hull compiled by the University of Southern Denmark. The second volume describes the research undertaken at University College London on the wider maritime context, the conservation process and the analysis of the contents recovered from the wreck site. Prominent in the cargo were 42 iron bars thought to be of a type - so-called 'voyage iron' - sometimes traded to West Africa as the first stage of the transatlantic slave trade. |
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| Item Description: | At head of title: Nautical Archaeology Society. Previously issued in print: Oxford: Archaeopress, 2014. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (iv, 113 pages, 26 pages of plates) : illustrations (colour). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781407322896 1407322893 |
| DOI: | 10.30861/9781407312118 |