Artifacts from The Mary Rose

I know the Tudors aren't exactly ancient, but artifacts from The Mary Rose have been put on display.

Quote from Daily Mail article:



www.dailymail.co.uk...


There are many pictures in the article, but these are my favourites:

This is a 'gold half-sovereign from 1544 bearing an image of Henry VIII'



This is 'Europe's oldest example of a Tudor fiddle'



And just for the ick factor - here's a nit comb complete with preserved nits:




[edit on 12-10-2009 by berenike]

reply to post by berenike

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That's a fascinating article, complete with extraordinarily good pictures.
Thank you!

reply to post by Vanitas

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Here's a BBC video on the subject, it's only a couple of minutes or so long but it's good to see the objects:

news.bbc.co.uk...

It might take a couple of attempts to get it to play.

reply to post by berenike

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Thank you!
This particular wreck is becoming more and more interesting to me by minute...

There is something about sunken ships...
(And I don't mean the fishy odour.)








[edit on 31-10-2009 by Vanitas]

reply to post by Vanitas

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I expect it would help to post a picture of the ship:



Somebody made a thread recently asking for people to put more info in their posts so that members who didn't have a lot of time wouldn't have to worry about clicking on links. So, hope this will do.