The Dungeness Tudor ship is a 16th-century ship whose remains were found in 2022 in a quarry at Dungeness, Kent, England.
Discovery
The remains of the ship were found by Cemex workers dredging for aggregate in Denge quarry at Dungeness in April 2022. They were about 8 m (26 ft) below the water level and about 300 m (330 yd) inland from the modern coastline.[1][2] A large part of the ship's hull was raised intact by the dredgers.[3] The workers immediately contacted Wessex Archaeology, who recorded the find using laser scanning and digital photography, but the discovery was little publicised until the end of the year.[2] The wreck will be reburied under the silt in the lake so that it can be preserved for further investigation by future archaeologists with new techniques.[3]
Investigation
More than 100 timbers from the hull have been found, and dendrochronological analysis dates them to between 1558 and 1580 and identifies them as English oak.[2]
The ship was one of the discoveries shown in BBC Two's Digging for Britain in Series 10, Episode 1, first broadcast on 1 January 2023.[4][5]
References
- ^ "Remains of Old Ship found at Denge Quarry". Cemex UK News. May 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ a b c Weinman, Steve (1 January 2023). "16th-century ship found - in Kent quarry lake". divernet.com. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ a b Pickford, James (30 December 2022). "Elizabethan ship found in 'remarkable condition' in Kent quarry". Financial Times. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "Digging for Britain Season 10". Radio Times. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "Digging for Britain - Series 10: 1. Roman Towns and Tudor Shipwrecks". BBC iPlayer. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
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