Mazarrón ships
The Mazarrón Ships are two Phoenician shipwrecks that were found near Mazarrón on the Spanish coast. They date to the seventh century BC. They were excavated between 1993 and 2001.
The first ship was excavated between October 1993 and June 1995 after the bay at Mazarrón had been extensively clarified by a survey . The keel (4.5 m long), nine planks and four frames were preserved from the ship . The second ship in particular, which was excavated from 1999 to 2001, is well preserved. It is 8.15 m long and about 2.20 m wide. The contents of the ship were protected by a 10 to 15 cm thick layer of seaweed. Except for an area in the middle, the ship was full of lead ingots , which together weighed about 2800 kg. There were also remains of ropes, a basket, a granite hand mill, the remains of a mast, a wooden handle and remains of animal bones. The anchor was found about a meter from the ship . It is the oldest anchor found so far that is not a simple stone. It is made of wood and lead.
The ships are exhibited in the Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática in nearby Cartagena .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Iván Negueruela Martinez: The Phoenican ships of Mazarrón. In: Joan Aruz, Sarah Graff, Yelena Rakic (Eds.): Assyria to Iberia: At the Dawn of the Classical Age. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-20808-5 , pp. 243-244.