Specialists have been working on the Newport Ship conservation project since the discovery of almost a third of the former wine- trading vessel and 1,000 medieval artefacts in the banks of the ...

Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in medieval warfare, politics, and trade. The drekar, or dragon-headed longships, were ...

Tree-ring analysis has been able to date a medieval ship found in a Welsh riverbank ... have found timbers from the hull of the former wine-trading vessel were made from oak trees that were ...

"Although wrecks and shipping losses were common, very little archaeological evidence of the ships and trade networks survives." To tackle this, he analyzed one of the only known shipwrecks in ...

NEWPORT'S Medieval Ship is one of the city's most treasured ... The ship likely operated along the Lisbon to Bristol trade route and would have had men-at-arms on the ship to protect it from ...