Fish in Tudor Naval Diet-with reference to the Mary Rose

Fish remains retrieved in the orlop deck and the hold of the Tudor man-of-war Mary Rose, which sank in 1545 outside Portsmouth, are evaluated with the help of documentary records concerning victualling of the English ?eet during that historical period. Though the bones testify to the almost exclusiv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamilton-Dyer, Sheila
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 1995
Subjects:
Cod
Online Access:https://revistas.uam.es/archaeofauna/article/view/8411
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Summary:Fish remains retrieved in the orlop deck and the hold of the Tudor man-of-war Mary Rose, which sank in 1545 outside Portsmouth, are evaluated with the help of documentary records concerning victualling of the English ?eet during that historical period. Though the bones testify to the almost exclusive presence of processed cod, the biased skeletal spectra and other features of the samples prevent a detailed evaluation of specimens present as well as an estimation of their sizes. Los restos de peces recuperados en las bodegas del buque de guerra inglés Mary Rose, hundido en 1545 en el puerto de Portsmouth, son evaluados a la luz de la documentación histórica de que se dispone sobre el avituallamiento y las ordenanzas de armada inglesa de ese periodo. Si bien los restos coinciden en señalar una dominancia de bacalao procesado con vistas a un consumo a medio o largo plazo, las características de la muestra ósea impiden una evaluación efectiva de número de ejemplares y de sus tamaños.