About
Gribshunden Project
"Gribshunden was the flagship of the Danish-Norwegian King Hans. Built probably in the Low Countries of wood harvested in the River Meuse' catchment area' in the winter of 1482/83, this vessel was probably one of the first purpose-built for carrying artillery. King Hans received the ship in 1485, and it served for a decade on a variety of missions around the Baltic and northern Europe. In the summer of 1495, the ship sank in the waters of Blekinge after an on-board explosion. At the time, Gribshunden was the central vessel in a squadron carrying the king and his entourage to a political summit in Kalmar, Sweden, where Hans expected to unify all three Nordic countries under his crown. The historical significance of this late medieval shipwreck exceeds its Nordic context because it is a physical testament of the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era." (Derudas & Foley, forthcoming)
AIR at Gribshunden collects and publishes data collected during the 2019, 2021, and 2022 field seasons.
- Paola Derudas & Brendan Foley, Managing data from maritime archaeology investigations: AIR at Gribshunden (forthcoming)
- Mikael Larsson &Brendan Foley, The king's spice cabinet-Plant remains from Gribshunden, a 15th century royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
- Anton Hansson, Hans Linderson, Brendan Foley, Casks from Gribshunden (1495) – Dendrochronology of Late Medieval Shipboard Victual Containers
- Gitte Ingvardson, Dirk Müter , Brendan Foley, Purse of medieval silver coins from royal shipwreck revealed by X-ray microscale Computed Tomography (µCT) scanning
- Stella Macheridis, Maria C. Hansson, Brendan P. Foley, Fish in a barrel: Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) from the Baltic Sea wreck of the royal Danish flagship Gribshunden (1495)