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The ‘Make Ship Happen\u2019 fundraising campaign will fund the reconstruction of the 7th century \u2018Sutton Hoo\u2019 ship. Image: Make Ship Happen<\/p>\n
A national fundraising campaign is set to \u2018Make Ship Happen\u2019 for a \u00a31m project to build a full-size reconstruction of the 7th century \u2018Sutton Hoo\u2019 ship.<\/p>\n
The venture will bring together archaeologists, historians, experts in construction and shipbuilding and other skilled volunteers to reconstruct the mastless, clinker-built rowboat buried beneath the sand of Sutton Hoo across the River Deben from Woodbridge, Suffolk, for 13 centuries.<\/p>\n
Philip Leech, chairman and director of the Sutton Hoo Ship\u2019s Company, which is responsible for the build, said: \u201cThe build is a serious scientific endeavour and an example of experimental archaeology which is carried out by replicating or approximating the feasibility of ancient cultures.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is done by employing a number of methods, techniques, analyses, and approaches, based upon archaeological source material \u2013 in this instance raising a ghost ship based on the indent left by the original vessel.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything will be carefully recorded so we can learn from the construction.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Different parts of the ship will then be offered up for sponsorship to pay for the build, which is likely to take about two years to complete.<\/p>\n
The team will be using digital plans produced at Southampton University from the measurements taken at the excavation. The first stage will be to complete a fifth size model, using wood supplied by the Crown Estate, before building the full-size vessel.<\/p>\n
The ship will be built inside The Longshed on the site of the former Whisstocks boatyard in Woodbridge.<\/p>\n
Once built, it will be sea-trialled and used to learn about Anglo-Saxon skills, trade and seamanship. Later it will become a movable exhibition.<\/p>\n
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