[blam]

Those damn 'sea people' again? (Phoenecians?)

[johniegrad]

So, how did it taste after all those years?

[Ciexyz]

Cool! Hope they find such a Roman trade ship.

[blam]

Ping. (Post Dark Ages 'hotspot'?)

[RightWhale]

It was Romans who adopted iron for their legions and thereby were able to cut enemy's weapons to shreds. Phoenicians traded no doubt with England, mainly in tin as far as metals are concerned. This port would have been Roman, and this may have been the limitless source of iron ore that Vergil refers to.

[Tancred]

There was a Greek guy named Pytheas who sailed from what is now Marseilles and supposedly reached Britain and possibly got as far as Iceland (Ultima Thule). But the book he wrote was lost and we only know about him from references by other writers.

[Old Professer]

, reinforced with hundreds of oak tree trunks, sharpened at one end so they could be rammed into the sea bed.

Rammed into the sea bed with what?

[LostTribe]

>Timber pilings excavated from a deep layer of silt on the sea bed have been radio-carbon dated at 250BC

Confirms there was lots of sea traffic in that part of the world long before the time of Christ. Jesus uncle(?) Joseph of Arimethia was a big time shipper of tin from SW England. Probably based in Caesarea Maritima, the biggest baddest seaport in the region at that time. (Excellent web site!)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Another one that slipped under the waves and never got added to GGG. Blast from the Past.

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