Qualla: Newport Medieval Ship https://qualla.com/newport-medieval-ship en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/v/newport-medieval-ship-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Newport Medieval Ship https://qualla.com/newport-medieval-ship Newport Medieval Ship: Introduction https://qualla.com/newport-medieval-ship/ Photo credit Owain at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. In spring 2006, conservators cleaning the timbers of a 15th-century ship found a small silver coin lodged in a cut-out where the stempost met the keel. It was a French petit blanc, struck at Crémieu in the Dauphiné region of France between May and July 1447. The shipwrights had placed it there as a token of good fortune at the start of construction. The coin had stayed in its hiding place for over five hundred and fifty years - through the ship's working life on the Bristol-Iberia trade, through its loss in a Newport side-channel around 1469, through five centuries buried in River Usk mud, and through the months of cleaning before someone with a brush noticed it. The Newport Medieval Ship's good-luck charm had been waiting.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/v/newport-medieval-ship-wp/gcjv-newport-medieval-ship-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Newport Medieval Ship: A Discovery Nobody Was Looking For https://qualla.com/newport-medieval-ship/ Photo credit Owain at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. In June 2002, construction workers building Newport's new Riverfront Arts Centre on the west bank of the River Usk dug into the riverbank and hit timber. Articulated timber. A lot of it. The archaeologists called in to investigate found a substantial portion of a late medieval se...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/v/newport-medieval-ship-wp/gcjv-newport-medieval-ship-a-discovery-nobody-was-looking-for.mp3 0:06 2 full Newport Medieval Ship: Built in the Basque Country https://qualla.com/newport-medieval-ship/ Photo credit Owain at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Dendrochronology - tree-ring dating - identified the original construction timber as having been felled around 1449 in the Basque Country of northern Spain. A later oxygen-isotope study refined the felling date to the winter of 1457/8. Since shipwrights of the period used green t...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/v/newport-medieval-ship-wp/gcjv-newport-medieval-ship-built-in-the-basque-country.mp3 0:06 3 full Newport Medieval Ship: The Loss https://qualla.com/newport-medieval-ship/ Photo credit Owain at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Around 1468, the ship was carefully floated into a side channel of the Usk on a very high tide, then settled onto a pre-erected cradle of oak and elm logs - the tree-ring dating of those cradle timbers places the event in the spring of 1468. The ship was undergoing a major refit....

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/v/newport-medieval-ship-wp/gcjv-newport-medieval-ship-the-loss.mp3 0:06 4 full Newport Medieval Ship: What the Hold Held https://qualla.com/newport-medieval-ship/ Photo credit Owain at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Several hundred objects came out of the wreck. Portuguese coins. Iberian micaceous red-ware ceramics, soot-stained, almost certainly the crew's cooking pots. Merino sheep wool in the caulking. Walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, pomegranates, grapes, figs, olives - the foodstuffs of the...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/v/newport-medieval-ship-wp/gcjv-newport-medieval-ship-what-the-hold-held.mp3 0:06 5 full Newport Medieval Ship: Three-Dimensional Resurrection https://qualla.com/newport-medieval-ship/ Photo credit Owain at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The first stage of conservation, completed in April 2008, was simply to clean the timbers and record them. Each piece was scanned with a FaroArm portable coordinate measuring machine and modelled in RHINO software, producing rotatable three-dimensional images accurate to submilli...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/v/newport-medieval-ship-wp/gcjv-newport-medieval-ship-three-dimensional-resurrection.mp3 0:06 6 full Newport Medieval Ship: Whose Ship Was It? https://qualla.com/newport-medieval-ship/ Photo credit Owain at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Circumstantial evidence ties the ship to Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick - the man known to history as Warwick the Kingmaker. A letter dated 22 November 1469, from Warwick to Thomas Throkmorton, his receiver of Glamorgan and Morgannwg, authorised various payments for "the ma...

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