This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – March, 2017. A photomosaic of the Fame wrecksite. (C) Bournemouth University The Swash Channel leads to the main entrance of Poole Harbour in Dorset, and this is where the Swash Channel Wreck lies. The original name of the ship has been lost…
This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – October 2015. The site at Bursledon: to the left, the site of the Grace Dieu, to the right, the possible site of the Holy Ghost. ‘But how do we know that?’ is a good question for people to ask of historians and…
This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – June 2017. The Great Ship of Snargate, late 15th/early 16th century (colour enhanced for greater clarity) Why does a medieval church in a small Romney Marsh village contain a large and very old painting of a warship? The village of Snargate…
This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – March 2014. A thank-offering for a successful voyage, or a fearful prayer before setting sail? A 13th/14th century ship graffito in Rochester Cathedral, Kent. To many people the word ‘graffiti’ conjurs up images of desecrated walls, gang-tags and urban decay. …
This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – February 2014. The site of the Grace Dieu, during fieldwork in the 1980s. The ship was huge, in medieval terms: the archaeologist in the red wetsuit is standing on the end of the keel at the stern – the other end…
This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – January 2014. The remains of the steamship Hoche, 2012 I was nine years old, on holiday in Devon. We were staying in a cottage on the rocky north Devon coast, just south of Hartland Point, and went for a walk along…