Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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The wine-trading , which sank in the c.1469, has just returned to - in 2,500 pieces, after in Portsmouth by the team. Now to find a site for reassembly & display of this great future tourist attraction! Superb storytelling & imagery in the 3 min video at bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64151535

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Newport Ship: Medieval vessel is 'world's largest 3D puzzle'

With almost 2,500 pieces, measuring 30 metres and weighing 25 tonnes, it has been called the world's largest 3D puzzle.

Archaeologists can now, after 20 years of painstaking restoration, start to reassemble the wreck of a 15th Century ship found in a south Wales riverbank

πŸ”— bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-641515

#discovery #cymru #histodon #maritime #ship #history #archaeologist #newportship #Wales #archaeology

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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