MAST Archaeology

We are so happy to announce our new partnership with @mastarchaeology.bsky.social 🌊

#Archaeology #Heritage #MarineArchaeology #Museums #Conservation

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Very excited to be forming a new and strong alliance with @yorkarchaeology.bsky.social the two top names in #maritimeheritage and #conservation in the UK! www.thisismast.org/debrief/2026...

Out now! read all about it! How satellite technologies and large-scale digital datasets can be used to #UCH. Thanks to #HonorFrostFoundation we used our #MaritimeObservatory to investigate looting on the Egadi #BronzeAge site of #Sicily. #heritagecrime honorfrostfoundation.org/2026/01/23/n...

#hmsinvincible’s cutwater, raised in 2019 (top left) weighing over 9 tonnes has since been soaked in 15 cubic metres of PEG for 4 years, drained (top right) by @bumaritime.bsky.social now being cleaned b4 being rebuilt and returned to the #NMRN All at our #ArchaeologyCentre in #poole

Delighted that #Santa has delivered our loan of the #HMSAnson collection of artefacts to #TheHistoricDockyardChatham for exhibition starting March 26, 2026 @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social
One for the diary!

Shipwreck Collection Thanks to MAST funding the public will soon be able to see these historic artefacts.

We are delighted that an eminent #Dorset funder has just donated a significant sum towards the #conservation of our #EASTFIELD gun from the #MarinaCamroseCollection @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
More on the gun here: www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

MAST Newsletter Read latest MAST Newsletter online.

It's that time of the year again - Here's our 2025 Newsletter! Read all about it! www.thisismast.org/mast-newslet...

Preparing #HMSAnson (1781) artefacts for their exhibition at #ChathamDockyard next spring. There are some very fine pieces including #royalnavy medical instruments from the late 18th century newly conserved from the #marinacamroseshipwreckcollection @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

#Ostend for the #IKUWA 8th International Congress for UCH. Come and find out all about protecting heritage #underwater at our session Thursday on the #maritimeObservatory! And also learn about our amazing new museum collection of artefacts #MarinaCamroseShipwreckCollection @bumaritime.bsky.social

Maritime Salvage and the Battle off Malaya - The Naval Review It took just two hours for the Japanese air attack to sink HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse in December 1941. For the sailors this should have been their last

The last resting places for the sailors of #HMSPrinceofWales and #HMSRepulse sunk in 1941 are still not at peace #VJday Read our piece in @navalreview.bsky.social www.naval-review.com/news-views/m...

Here we are modelling MAST’s new and very exclusive range whilst working with @bumaritime.bsky.social @buarchanth.bsky.social #maritimearchaeology #Poole

#WatchingBrief is back with a report on new work by archaeologists from @mastarchaeology.bsky.social and a UK nuclear scientist which casts doubt on one of the most widely reported tropes in marine salvage, that the search for pre-nuclear steel drives the looting of shipwrecks from WW1 and WW2.

Honoured to present the case at @unesco.org for satellite monitoring to detect bad actors at sea using our #MaritimeObservatory, partnership with #OceanMind. Here the case of the looting of #HMSPRINCEOFWALES in the South China Sea by the Chinese barge #ChuanHong68 (full story on MAST’s website).

Our office this week as a @unesco.org #accreditedNGO @nauticalarch.bsky.social @adramar and others supporting and building #maritimehistory #maritimeheritage and the #marineenvironment

Before…and after. John Lethbridge’s model diving apparatus. He built his in 1715 and became a prolific shipwreck salvor. We’ve rebuilt our model now @bumaritime.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory #salvage #shipwrecks

That is incorrect. This article explains why.

Recent high-profile incidents of scrap-metal salvors illegally targeting the sunken remains of Second World War warships have drawn attention to the vulnerability of historic shipwrecks around the world.
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Is pre-nuclear steel behind WWII ship targeting?

MAST with Laurence Jones of the #AtomicWeapons Establishment have teamed up to bust the myth of the link between shipwreck #looters and #prenuclearsteel #shipwrecks #navalwargraves ukdefencejournal.org.uk/is-pre-nucle...

Maritime networks as a vector for early farming/language dispersals: A comparative review Maritime networks have been proposed as a mechanism for early agricultural and, by extension, language dispersals in several coastal and island region…

Maritime networks as a vector for early farming/language dispersals: A comparative review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Trustees / Directors Meet the MAST team, Patrons and trustees.

We are really excited to welcome Michael Mainelli as MAST’s new Patron. Current @chamberofcommerce.bsky.social President, he brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and wisdom www.thisismast.org/people/trust...

A useful guide to nautical knots for Millennials

#Navy #tallships #Ageofsail

Great spread in the @dailyexpressnews.bsky.social on our newly acquired #maritimecollection from #Charlestown in Cornwall. #Readallaboutit! #maritimehistory @bournemouthuni.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social

You’ve all seen her gun. Here’s the #SSEastfield bell and possibly a gun sight (we need to study it carefully to be certain). You’ll remember the merchantship was torpedoed in the south western approaches off Cornwall in November 1917 @bumaritime.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory

So that’s a wrap. We have 10,337 artefacts and 27% of these are in active decay #maritimeHistory The next major step is to conserve them. Here’s Holly and Ian at the end of their marathon month in #Poole @bumaritime.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

Today it’s a coconut day. This 300 year old fruit was in #HMSAssociation, the 90 gun 2nd rate ship sank in a storms off the #IslesofScilly in 1707 heralding the beginning of the search for #Longitude and safer seas every artefact tells a story @lloydsregister.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social

Shipwreck Collection Thanks to MAST funding the public will soon be able to see these historic artefacts.

Today's blog features the fascinating SS Eastfield gun and the #RoyalCharter - what is its link to the @metoffice.bsky.social? @bumaritime.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory #Maritimesafety @lrfheritage.bsky.social www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

Delighted to announce new work with @lrfheritage.bsky.social to identify #Pollutingwrecks in the #Arctic using a range of satellite-based remote sensing techniques #ProjectTangaroa #CEFAS www.thisismast.org/debrief/2025...

Our latest blog is out now - read all about the Grand Old Lady - and here a pair of binoculars from #RMSMedina @buarchanth.bsky.social @bumaritime.bsky.social #MaritimeHeritage www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...

Today we have been examining the #SSEastfield gun - we like a challenge and this is up there! It's a real mishmash -a French 90 mm 1877 cannon from land married to a 1905 Hotchkiss quick firing gun mount with a recoil system added in 1917. It will need a lot of conservation @bumaritime.bsky.social

Shipwreck Collection Thanks to MAST funding the public will soon be able to see these historic artefacts.

Our Latest blog, with a focus on #RMSMedina, is out now! @bournemouthuni.bsky.social #Poole #RoyalYacht www.thisismast.org/shipwreck-co...