Medieval grave slabs recovered from historic shipwreck from villiers fastest century Watch Video
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Description: Maritime archaeologists from Bournemouth University (BU) have recovered two medieval graves slabs which have been lying at the bottom of Studland Bay for nearly 800 years.<br/><br/>The slabs, carved from Purbeck Marble, were amongst the cargo of England’s oldest historic shipwreck, which sank off the Dorset coast during the reign of Henry III in the thirteenth century.<br/><br/>Divers and archaeologists led by Bournemouth University brought the slabs to the surface on 4th June in a two hour operation from a depth of around seven metres where the stones lay.
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