BU Maritime Arch

@BU_ArchAnth students surveying unknown #shipwrecks. Today they were joined by a couple of lost #seahorses

Week one of our archaeological field school, putting our students diving skills to use investigating shipwrecks across Poole Bay

A successful week completing our @BU_ArchAnth #scientificdiving students @BSACdivers Ocean Diver courses ready to dive on shipwrecks next month

The wreck was identified by maritime archaeologists from @bu_maritimearch, and Sheilah and Martin Openshaw, as the mooring lighter Yard Craft No. 8 lost in September 1903. bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2024-10-1…

Teaching the @BU_ArchAnth students thier @BSACdivers Ocean Diver a part of their archaeology degree @bournemouthuni

@FionaCoward @digginggardener @bournemouthuni @JessicaToale @PooleMuseum Yes, will be in the shipwreck gallery, along with a few other wrecks we've worked on

@digginggardener @bournemouthuni @JessicaToale @PooleMuseum Good question... Over to @bu_maritimearch!

.@JessicaToale, MP for Bournemouth West, visited the Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust site in Poole to meet with BU archaeologists to learn about their work, and the items they have recovered from some of the most important shipwrecks off the south coast: ow.ly/mIFT50UsrRa

@4biddntruth You can read more about the wreck here doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

British archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery of medieval gravestones while investigating the site of an ancient shipwreck. According to a press release, the carved slabs, made from Purbeck marble, were part of the cargo aboard England’s oldest known historic shipwreck. This vessel sank off the Dorset coast during the 13th century, in the reign of Henry III. The king, who was the son of King John, ruled England from 1216 until his death in 1272. Photographs reveal that the grave slabs are astonishingly well-preserved, even though one is encrusted with barnacles.

@SallyBadham @TimPalmerEO Now we've got them up, we think the larger one may have been polished.

@TimPalmerEO They were cut at source but not polished.

Retweeting this fascinating paper which demonstrates the carving of Purbeck stone at the source, and not the destination.

The cauldron was likely over 50 years old when the ship wreck skfb.ly/oNTvL

Purbeck marble graveslabs from the #MortarWreck skfb.ly/pqoIE skfb.ly/pnZNW #protectedwreck

📰 Medieval trade networks revealed by 13th-century shipwreck #AntiquityResearch in the news via @HeritageDaily buff.ly/4ckYfFX

@PearlPolanski @lawrence_shaw @thetimeteam sketchfab.com/bu_maritimearc…

@lawrence_shaw @bu_maritimearch @thetimeteam Any pics of the mortars and kitchen items found?

An INCREDIBLE day yesterday with the @bu_maritimearch team, as the lifted some BEAUTIFUL Purbeck Marble grave slabs which have been sat on the sea bed just outside Poole Harbour for more than 700 years 😍👏 @thetimeteam

And we have lift off

Prepping the 800yo #purbeckmarble grave slabs from the #mortarwreck

Strong winds, no vis, and dealing with every #WAFI under the sun but nothing beats diving on an 800 year old shipwreck in preparation for something big 🧐

I proudly wore three ‘hats’ yesterday. CEO @JonEggingTrust, Pro-chancellor @bournemouthuni and archeology graduate 🤩Our Dorset Blue Skies students experienced the wonders of underwater archaeology thanks to @BU_ArchAnth @bu_maritimearch 🌊 @E_L_Jenkins. #teamwork in action.

@StroudStory @CathyRLowe @CarolineIrwin3 @chartres_Fiona @churchartnature @Horatioforever @todbooklady @Portaspeciosa @PosyHill1 @mutley7781 @DavidMa16901372 His main source is Littler (1859) esah1852.org.uk/library/files/… But he also say a "Pardon bowl" is spoken of in Cranmer's works as being in Waltham Abbey Church. but i have no idea what that means

@bu_maritimearch @CathyRLowe @CarolineIrwin3 @chartres_Fiona @churchartnature @Horatioforever @todbooklady @Portaspeciosa @PosyHill1 @mutley7781 @DavidMa16901372 That's interesting - further reduced during Burges' restoration? Okay, checked Winters, yes, I see, during that time. But how does he know about how it looked before?

Before Christmas I showed you the portable font at Waltham Abbey, #Essex, but here's the big one for today's #FontsOnFriday. Plain and capacious, apparently dating from about 1200, but surely recut. Sources say purbeck, but who I am to say? Plus its two red guards🧯🧯...