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Newport Ship. Coordinates: 51°35′18″N 2°59′37″W. The Newport ship in the foundations of the Riverfront Arts Centre, 8 September 2002. The Newport Ship is a mid-fifteenth-century sailing vessel discovered by archaeologists in June 2002 in the city of Newport, South East Wales. It was found on the west bank of the River Usk, which runs ...
Riverfront Arts Centre. / 51.58832; -2.99343. The Riverfront ( Welsh: Glan yr Afon) is the principal and newest theatre and arts centre in the City of Newport. It is located on the west bank of the River Usk on the Bristol Packet Wharf in the city centre. Designed by architectural firm Austin-Smith:Lord, the centre was opened on 23 October 2004.
Clinker -built (also known as lapstrake) [1] [2] is a method of boat building in which the edges of hull planks overlap each other. Where necessary in larger craft, shorter planks can be joined end to end, creating a longer strake or hull plank. The technique originated in Scandinavia, and was successfully used by the Anglo-Saxons, Frisians ...
Northern Archaeological Associates. University of Wales Trinity Saint David. archaeology.biz. Main interests. Zooarchaeology, Post-excavation, Field archaeology. Hannah Russ FSA MCIfA is a British zooarchaeologist with a specialism in fish remains. [1] Hannah is a co-presenter and finds specialist for Channel 4's The Great British Dig.
Medieval ships were the vessels used in Europe during the Middle Ages. Like ships from antiquity, they were moved by sails, oars, or a combination of the two. There was a large variety, mostly based on much older, conservative designs. Although wider and more frequent communications within Europe meant exposure to a variety of improvements ...
The Newport Tower, also known as the Old Stone Mill, is a round stone tower located in Touro Park in Newport, Rhode Island, the remains of a windmill built in the mid-17th century. It has received attention due to speculation that it is actually several centuries older and would thus represent evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.
Christopher Newport (1561–1617) was an English seaman and privateer.He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Newport became a unitary authority in 1996 and forms part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area, also known as the Cardiff Capital Region. Newport has been a port since medieval times when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman town of Caerleon, immediately upstream and now part of the city.
Long known to locals, the Maderö wreck was first visited by divers in 1969, who described it as a large medieval trading ship filled with bricks. In the decades since, other divers visited the ...
List of scheduled monuments in Newport. Newport unitary authority area, in Wales, has 71 scheduled monuments. With a neolithic chambered tomb, three Bronze Age sites and seven Iron Age hillforts, it demonstrates a range of prehistoric occupation. However, with an entire Roman town at Caerleon, and Roman villas and forts, it is an important area ...