On February 19th, 1758 the HMS Invincible set sail out of Portsmouth Harbor for Canada to join the British fleet to fight the French. Unfortunately, due to a domino effect of extraordinary bad luck, she ran aground on Horse Tail Sand not far from the harbor. Invincible was a French …
I’ve been working on Reflectance Transformation Image capture in a sub-aquatic environment.  On 2 May, 2013 the first ever PTM file from an RTI dataset captured entirely underwater was successfully processed in the Archaeological Computing Research Group computer lab at the University of Southampton using RTIBuilder software.  Images were captured in …
Digital Boat Recording: The Latest Technologies The University of Southampton Centre for Maritime Archaeology and Archaeological Computing Research Group, with the support of the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute, are pleased to announce a workshop on ‘Digital Boat Recording: the latest technologies’, that will be held at the University of …
People and the Sea: A Maritime Archaeological Research Agenda for England Edited by J Ransley and F Sturt, with J Dix, J Adams and L Blue Council for British Archaeology, Research Reports 171 Britain is a maritime nation. Thus understanding the changing record of people’s relationships with, and use of, …
It has been a busy week in the centr,e with numerous talks by visiting speakers and more practical instruction on the MA/MSc programme. This has seen discussion of advances in AUV technology for extensive and intensive surveys, photogrammetric techniques (onland and underwater) and RTI applications. This year’s students should now …
The Centre for Maritime Archaeology (CMA) at the University of Southampton has carried out lots of  exciting projects relating to ports and the maritime past. The CMA hosts a team of specialists who undertake research into ancient shipwrecks of Roman and Medieval trade, they explore ports and harbours within and …
The CMA Research Group is hosting a Summer Fieldwork Seminar Series to highlight the work of CMA faculty and students over the past year. 10/9 Dr. Fraser Sturt – Archaeology Underwater? Recent fieldwork on the Pleistocene Landscape 10/16 Scott Tucker (PhD Student) – St. Mary’s River Archaeological Project: 2012 fieldwork …
Welcome to the 2012 MA/MSc in Maritime Archaeology cohort. Â We look forward to meeting you during the induction week.
The Centre for Maritime Archaeology Research Seminar series continues on April 25 at 10:30 in the Burgess Building, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton: ‘3D Imaging for Archaeology using Structured Light Technology: Developments in Systems for Remote Areas, Hostile Environments, and Maritime Archaeology’ Christopher Begley, Ph.D. Transylvania University and University …
With Titanic mania sweeping Southampton this month in memory of the 100th anniversary of its demise, Dr Helen Farr will provide a whirlwind tour of the development of seafaring and maritime activity from its origins in the Pleistocene, and our ancestors’ first open water crossings, to the cutting edge technology that maritime archaeologists …