Bow of the Mary Rose found

More than two decades after Henry VIII's favourite warship, the Mary Rose, was dramatically raised from the seabed, archaeologists have finally located the long-lost front section of the vessel. Substantial parts of the bow have been discovered buried in silt, just 1.5m (5ft) from where the rest of the ship lay at the bottom of the Solent near Portsmouth Harbour before it was brought to the surface in 1982. Then, the underwater archaeologists' seabed excavation zone missed the bow timbers by just 20cm.

Posted by David on August 8, 2004 9:06 PM