World's largest medieval cargo ship emerges from its underwater grave off one country's coast

Danish archaeologists precocious unveiled a large humanities breakthrough. They recovered the remains of the world's largest cog vessel successful the waters disconnected Copenhagen aft immoderate 600 years.

The announcement, made by the Viking Ship Museum successful Roskilde successful precocious December, noted the vessel was recovered successful the Øresund, a strait betwixt Denmark and Sweden.

Divers recovered the cog — a benignant of medieval cargo vessel — during seabed surveys up of operation connected Copenhagen's Lynetteholm development.

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"From the precise archetypal dive, the maritime archaeologists sensed they had uncovered thing extraordinary," the Viking Ship Museum said successful a statement. 

"And arsenic they removed centuries of soil and silt, the outline of a singular find emerged. Not conscionable immoderate wreck, but the largest cog ever discovered — a vessel that represents 1 of the astir precocious vas types of its clip and the backbone of medieval trade."

Tree-ring investigation revealed the vessel was constructed utilizing timber from Pomerania and the Netherlands. (Vikingeskibsmuseet)

The ship, named Svælget 2, was built successful 1410.

It measures astir 92 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet high, with an estimated cargo capableness of astir 330 tons.

Researchers dated the vessel by conducting tree-ring analysis, which showed it was built with timber from Pomerania, successful modern-day Poland, and the Netherlands.

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The vessel "represents the largest illustration of its benignant ever discovered anyplace successful the world," the depository said. 

"The cog was an businesslike vessel benignant that could beryllium sailed by a remarkably tiny crew, adjacent erstwhile heavy loaded."

Danish archaeologists said the remains of Svælget 2 correspond the largest cog vessel ever discovered worldwide. (Vikingeskibsmuseet)

"[The cog] was the ace vessel of the Middle Ages. … It transformed commercialized patterns. Where long-distance commercialized had antecedently been constricted to luxury goods, mundane commodities could present beryllium shipped crossed large distances."

The vessel survived the centuries acknowledgment to the soil that protected it from the elements. Archaeologists were particularly amazed to observe the vessel inactive had its rigging, oregon the strategy of ropes, cables and fittings that supported its mast. 

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Divers besides recovered galore idiosyncratic objects, including dishes, shoes, combs and rosary beads that the sailors utilized each day.

Remarkably, archaeologists recovered the ship's brick-built galley, wherever the unit cooked meals implicit an unfastened hearth — a uncommon luxury during beingness astatine sea.

Archaeologists recovered mundane idiosyncratic items — including combs utilized by sailors aboard the monolithic cog ship. (Vikingeskibsmuseet)

No hint of cargo has been found, but the depository said barrels of salt, bundles of cloth and lumber were apt possibilities.

"Despite the missing cargo, determination is nary uncertainty that Svælget 2 was a merchant ship," the depository added. "Archaeologists person recovered nary signs of subject use."

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It's chartless however communal cogs were of this size successful Northern Europe astatine this time.

"We don't cognize this with large certainty," Otto Uldum, maritime archaeologist and the excavation leader, told Fox News Digital.

"To find a cog mislaid astatine oversea successful this authorities of preservation is precise rare."

"There is simply a marked inclination that cogs were built progressively larger done the usage of this technology, [like from] 1200 to 1400," said Uldum.

"Given the rarity of cogs dated this late, we deliberation that astir cogs entering the Baltic from the North Sea were astir [82 feet] long, and that Svælget 2 marks an precocious limit."

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Uldum was peculiarly struck by the betterment of the ship's stern castle — the archetypal archaeological impervious that specified raised structures, agelong depicted successful medieval illustrations, really existed.

He besides described the cog's preservation arsenic "very rare," adding comparable finds successful the Netherlands were excavated successful sheltered, reclaimed seabed areas alternatively than unfastened waters.

"To find a cog mislaid astatine oversea successful this authorities of preservation is precise rare," said the excavation's leader.  (Vikingeskibsmuseet)

"To find a cog mislaid astatine oversea successful this authorities of preservation is precise uncommon — and the information that it was underway connected the precocious seas erstwhile it was mislaid puts it successful the institution of lone a fistful of different wrecks," said Uldum.

The archaeologist said helium hopes that further investigation of the ship's artifacts, including the mammal and food bones, volition shed airy connected what the men ate connected board.

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The combs, shoes and cooking materials amusement that "the vessel was precise well-equipped, and that the sailors were surviving successful comparative comfort," Uldum added.