The Newport Medieval Ship is the largest and best preserved clinker built medieval merchant vessel ever recovered in the United Kingdom. It was found during the construction of the Riverfront ...

In 2003, the wreck was studied again, during which it was established that the merchant ship dated back to medieval times. A team of researchers led by Niklas Eriksson of the Department of ...

none more so than the medieval mariner. This is unfortunate because during the fourteenth century the manpower and ships provided by the English merchant fleet underpinned every military expedition.

Tree-ring analysis has been able to date a medieval ship found in a Welsh riverbank to within a few months. The wreck of a 15th Century ship was found in the mud of Newport's River Usk in 2002 and ...