About the Author:
DR PETER MARSDEN is a professional archaeologist who has excavated numerous Roman, medieval and later sites. He was commissioned to record the Bronze Age (c.1550 BC) boat at Dover, and has excavated the oldest seagoing sailing ship found in northern Europe (of c.150 AD), as well as other Roman and medieval shipwrecks in the River Thames. He is a founder of the Council for Nautical Archaeology that successfully campaigned for a law to protect historic shipwrecks (Protection of Wrecks Act 1973), and in 1986 created the Shipwreck Museum at Hastings in East Sussex. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. While doing all of this he was commissioned by the Mary Rose Trust to compile two of the five major academic volumes about Mary Rose.
Review:
This is something of an archaeological epic.' (Current Archaeology, 2004)
a must have for archaeologists interested in the period' (Mark Redknap Post-Medieval Archaeology, 38.2, 2004)
Sets a standard for future recording of important underwater archaeological sties...Future volumes will look at various aspects of the project in more detail and increase our knowledge and understanding of life in Tudor times.' (The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord)
Sealed by Time is the record of a fascinating topic, told in great detail and with admirable accuracy, backed by copious notes, footnotes and references to sources for almost every point.
It answered long-standing questions about Mary Rose, her building, her sea time, her tragic loss on July 19, 1545, the first attempts to raise her from the bottom of the Solent at the time, then the rediscovery of the abandoned wreck and further efforts begun in 1836 and concluding with current preservation project which began in 1965.
There can be no question that this is a most valuable book, a worth-while reference volume for the scholar or the interested layman...it contains an amazing amount of information and the number and quality of illustrations is impressive.' (Masthead, Journal of the ACS and CSMA)
This book is important,...Specialists in shipwreck archaeology and serious students of the technical development of Post-Medieval European ships must have access to a copy.' (Trevor Kenchington International Journal of Maritime History 16 (1), 2004)
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