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deck. The ship is monitored by the coast guard, and the residents of Dalarö have been notified to be wary of attempts to plunder the wreck. As of 2009, objects recorded by archaeologists have disappeared and the wreck has been disturbed and to some extent damaged. Known wreck sites in the Baltic are inevitably plundered, and there have been public appeals to somehow protect the Dalarö wreck. Though illegal, there is little preventing individuals from performing private covert diving operations in order to bring up objects from the ship in order to sell them on the black market.
258:, probably containing wine destined for the Swedish market. The divers who first located the wreck brought up the glass bottle that bore the crest of the English Boynton or Ogle families, a bowl, a drinking cup and one of the Bartmann jugs. Since the official announcement of the find in 2007, only two further objects have been brought up for analysis. One, the wooden butt of a flintlock pistol, helps date the find. The 1.9 meter-long lion figurehead lying next to the ship was also brought up and recorded in a 17: 228:, Södertörn University, the University of Southampton and Stockholm University. Since the hull is intact and the sinking occurred suddenly, the wreck contains a multitude of objects that are interesting to archaeologists and historians. On the top deck there are several interesting finds, both ship equipment and other assorted items, including a 57: 296:
In May 2008 SNMM revealed that some time between October 2007 and April 2008 the Dalarö wreck site had been disturbed. Some items had been removed while others had been disturbed or damaged. Among the objects that have disappeared so far is the wooden frame of a pistol that was located on the weather
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intend to turn the site of the Dalarö wreck into a wreck-diving park. The objective is to encourage cultural tourism by allowing the public access to the wreck site. Hobby divers are to be allowed to visit the wreck accompanied by licensed guides while non-divers are to be offered trips over the site
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that most likely contained wine. The glass bottle is believed to have been manufactured sometime between 1640 and 1670. One of the Bartmann jugs brought up from the ship for analysis bears the seal of the city of Amsterdam. Though most likely built in England by English shipwrights, it could have
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relatively wide. The stern is round tucked, which might indicate English shipbuilding style, rather than the Dutch. The hull has three gunports along each side. Two guns have been observed at the wrecksite. Due to its manoeuvrability and small size, such a ship would also have been suitable for
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The ship had three masts, two of which are still standing. The lower masts of both fore- and mainmasts are still standing, whereas the mizzenmast have healed over to starboard. The wreck was originally rigged as a ship, with square sails on fore and mainmasts. The hull is about 20 m long and
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in 1961. The difficulties in preserving the ship are considered by archaeologists to be too expensive and complicated. A salvage operation would also risk damaging the ship and the many related artefacts as well as disturb the site, making it more difficult to conduct further research.
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Eriksson, N. and Höglund, P., 2012, Well preserved or well recorded: approaches to Baltic Sea shipwrecks exemplified by the Dalarö-wreck project, in N. Günsenin (ed.), Between continents: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, 325–329.
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Eriksson, N., 2012, Recording a large three-dimensional ship-structure—thoughts rendered from the Dalarö-wreck project, in J. C. Henderson (ed.), Beyond Boundaries. The 3rd International Congress on Underwater Archaeology, IKUWA 3, London 2008. 193–198.
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The wreck lies with 17 degree list to starboard, and objects belonging to the ship that have been found on the sea floor have all been found on the starboard side. The current theory as to how the ship sank is that she was hit by a sudden
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been contracted by Swedish or even Dutch owners. Analysis of a pistol found on the weather deck found that it bore close resemblance to a 1683 pistol model manufactured for the Swedish Navy. The wood used for the pistol, though, is
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analysis it has been determined that the timber used for the ship was cut no later than 1628 in Northern Europe, perhaps in Northumberland. A trade route linked Stockholm, Newcastle and Amsterdam in the mid-17th century. In this
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Eriksson, N. 2014, The Edesö Wreck: the hull of a small, armed ship wrecked in the Stockholm archipelago in the latter half of the 17th century, The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (2014) 43.1:
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Eriksson, N. 2018, A New View of the ‘Edesö Wreck’: identifying the Swedish naval vessel Bodekull, built 1659–1661 and sunk 1678 from written sources, The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology,
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were loaded for export back to Sweden. When the ship sank it was carrying coal originating from England or Germany and stoneware
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was taken on. The coal, for which the local market in Stockholm was too small, would have been sold in part at
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https://www.archaeology.su.se/english/about-us/news/unique-17th-century-shipwreck-identified-1.331904
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The hold has not been excavated and thoroughly examined, but in it are coal and a large quantity of
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The wreck was discovered in 2003 by a group of professional divers, who notified the
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A glass bottle brought up from the ship bears an impressed crest of the Boynton or
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The sculptures associating to the ships name were usually located on the
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It has been suggested that the wreck is the remains of a ship called
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Stockholm University Department of archaeology and Classical Studies
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http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:561032/FULLTEXT02.pdf
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was exported to England where, among other things, Newcastle
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The wreck has been the object of several investigations by
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of a 17th-century ship lying in the waters off Edesön near
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In 2017 the ship was identified as most likely being the
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waters of the Baltic Sea are free from the "shipworm"
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Vasa I, The Archaeology of a Swedish Warship of 1628
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Index


Bartmann jug
shipwreck
Dalarö
Stockholm
Sweden

bojort
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
Swedish Navy
transom

Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
Ogle family
Northumberland
dendrochronological
triangular trade
brass
coal
Amsterdam
wine
Bartmann jugs
walnut
squall
starboard
windlass
foredeck
piracy
beakhead
figurehead

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