The ship was found to have been transporting Purbeck stone and marble, a type of dark-colored limestone sourced from southern England that can be polished to give a marble effect.

Around 800 years ago, it sank in the waters off the coast of the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula located in the county of Dorset in southern England. The shipwreck is the oldest known wreck in ...

The ship was also full of Purbeck stone, a type of limestone made from tightly packed freshwater snail shells that originates on the Isle of Purbeck off the southern coast of England. Among the ...