Naming the Ship

Work above the water included research into the possible identity of the wreck. Many hours were spent visiting archives and interrogating documents in search of a written record of the loss of a 16 th century ship off Yarmouth. Eventually, in the High Court of Admiralty Records a reference was found to a Spanish ship wrecked off Yarmouth.

The Santa Lucia was sailing to Flanders in 1567 with a cargo of wool. The ship ‘ by fortune p[er]ished and was lost in the seas thwart of yarmouthe in the Isle of wighte’ . The cargo was reported to have been salvaged. Is this the Yarmouth Roads wreck?

Site plan after the excavations

Mediterrean pottery jug