Newport Ship: Medieval vessel

From Nights, 10:35 pm on 7 February 2023

Puzzles come with varying degrees of complexity... But what about a puzzle with close to 2,500 pieces, measuring 30 metres and weighing 25 tonnes? That's the challenging facing archaeologists as they piece together the wreck of a 15th Century ship found in a south Wales riverbank twenty years ago. The project's curator, Dr. Toby Jones, joins us from Newport, South Wales.

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