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The Magor Pill Medieval Wreck (cba Research Reports) by Nigel Nayling; with contributions by Kate Barrow ... [et al.], and line drawings by Richard Brunning ... [et al.] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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With contributions by Kate Barrow, Richard Brunning, Nigel Cameron, Astrid Caseldine, Simon Dobinson, Diane Dollery, Rowena Gale, Edwin Gifford, Martin Locock, Mark Redknap, Michael Ryder, Gary Thomas, Ian Tyers, Peter Webster, Adam Yates, and Tim Young, and line drawings by Richard Brunning, Tony Daly, Paul Jones and Nigel Nayling. In 1994 the distorted timbers of a medieval boat came to light at Magor Pill, on the coast of the Gwent Levels, when storms washed away the sediments which had covered them since the boat ran aground about 700 years ago. This report charts the complex and difficult excavation and recovery of the boat and its cargo of iron ore. Back in the laboratory the boat was dismantled and the individual timbers studied in detail to provide an accurate picture of the methods, raw materials, and tools used in the boat's construction and subsequent repair. Models of the boat were made, and these, together with assessment of contemporary documents and iconography, point to the Magor Pill boat being a double-ended vessel built in the Northern European tradition and adapted to meet the demands of trading in the Bristol Channel. Analysis of the sedimentary, environmental
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- Author
- Nigel Nayling; with contributions by Kate Barrow ... [et al.], and line drawings by Richard Brunning ... [et al.]
- Publisher
- Council for British Archaeology
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781872414867
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Archaeology, Humanities
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