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| Medieval pot recovered from the wreck [Credit: Orvenyek titkai] |
The construction composed of oak floor-planks, a monoxyl side element (L-shaped crsoss-section) and some floor-timbers (including L shaped ribs).
Similar wrecks were found at Dunafoldvar (14th c.) and Rackeve (not-dated) during the drought of 2011 winter.
Only a few river ships of this kind were found in Europe, none from the Danube-area.
The Tahitotfalu wreck has huge potential, because it has large part covered by small pebbles, and could be intact.
A medieval pot was found next to a floor timber, inside the wreck, partially buried in the pebble-shoal.
More material could be preserved in the buried part.
The preliminary research was done by the Argonauts Research Group in cooperation with the county museum of Szentendre.
Plans are underway to continue the documentation and to dig probe-trenches on the buried part.
Author: Attila Toth | Source: Orvenyek titkai [August 14, 2012]
