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Volunteers welcomed the keel at The Longshed in Woodbridge, which is a key moment in the build.
- Credit: Sutton Hoo Ship s Company
The backbone of the Sutton Hoo replica ship will now begin to come together after the structure s keel was delivered.
And today the build became even more exciting as the keel pieces were trailered to The Longshed from The Sutton Hoo Ship s Company s second site along the A12 in Wickham Market.
The keel arriving at The Longshed in Woodbridge.
- Credit: Sutton Hoo Ship s Company
The keel is the lengthwise timber structure along the base of a ship, which supports the framework of the ship.
Simon Steel and Jacq Barnard in the Longshed in Woodbridge.
- Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown
Building work is preparing to step up a gear in Woodbridge to carefully bring one of Britain’s greatest archaeological treasures back to life.
The Sutton Hoo longship, which inspired the new Netflix film The Dig, is being carefully restored from scratch after it was buried more than 1,400 years ago.
The ship is being built using tools that our Anglo-Saxon predecessors would have used, such as axes, and is being spearheaded by the Sutton Hoo Ship s Company, at The Longshed along the River Deben.
Trustee Simon Steel with the handmade traditional tools that are being used to build the replica of the Sutton Hoo Ship.
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