Drawings by Caroline Caldwell.
Ebook (PDF) published 2013.
This report is the first full study of the remains of twelfth- to seventeenth-century ships and boats from the port of London. Using evidence from the vessels, from waterfronts, and from contemporary manuscripts Peter Marsden has reconstructed the design, construction, and use of these ancient vessels. The book focuses on the substantial remains of three local vessels. The earliest, the Custom House boat, was built in 1160-90 and was found broken up and reused in a waterfront revetment dating from a century later. The other two were wrecks discovered in the River Thames: Blackfriars ship 3, a fifteenth-century sailing barge, and Blackfriars ship 2, a barge which sank about 1670 with a cargo of bricks for rebuilding in London after the Great Fire of 1666.
Author(s): Peter Marsden
Series: English Heritage Archaeological Reports, 5
Publisher: English Heritage
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 236
City: London
List of figures 6
List of tables 8
Summaries 9
Acknowledgements 13
Introduction 15
1. Twelfth to thirteenth-century shipping in the port of London 20
2. The twelfth-century Custom House boats, City of London, 1973 41
3. Blackfriars ship 3, c 1400, City of London, 1970 55
4. Blackfriars ship 4, probably fifteenth century, City of London, 1970 105
5. Ship and boat fragments of the twelfth to early fifteenth centuries 107
6. Sixteenth-century reverse clinker boat, Morgans Lane, Southwark, 1987 136
7. Blackfriars ship 2, seventeenth century, City of London, 1969 145
8. Ship and boat fragments of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries 160
Appendices 185
Glossary of nautical terms 223
Bibliography 225
Index 227
