Gribshunden AIR
About the project
Archaeological investigations are by their nature destructive activities. Data documentation is the most important task not to lose the information collected, the interpretations performed and the new knowledge obtained. The Archaeological Interactive Report -AIR is a web platform that provides archaeologists with the tools for documentation, long-term archival, management, visualization, and publication of archaeological investigation data.
At a depth of 10 meters at Stora Ekön in Ekösund in the Ronneby archipelago, lay the remains of a more than five-hundred-year-old ship rest deep sunk in the dune, uncovered in 1970s. It is the Danish king flag-ship Gribshunden, the oldest carrack found in Scandinavia. According to several experts, it is probably the world's best-preserved 15th-century ship, contemporary with Christopher Columbus' ship Santa Maria and Vasco da Gama's ship São Gabriel and can provide clues about how ships of the period were constructed.