Køge 2. A Clinker-built Shipwreck from the Medieval Harbour of Køge, Zealand, Denmark

The development of a new cityscape in the old industrial harbourknown as ‘Sønder Havn’ in Køge in eastern Zealand ledin the summer of 2018 to the finding of a clinker-built shipwreck.The ship had been built in the 1520s, exclusively fromoak, and had undergone a reinforcement in the stem some tenyears after the initial building phase, hereby adding an extraouter layer of clinker planks and five riders on top of the floortimbers. The extensive dendrochronological analysis showedthat the planks had been felled in the eastern Baltic area,while the floor timbers and the keel of the vessel were fromsomewhere in the vicinity of the Rhine’s mouth. Of the ship,only the parts below the waterline were preserved, partly dueto the groundwater level but probably equally due to salvagingshortly after wrecking.