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This month's blog is by Sarah Coggins, Conservation Engineer at the Mary Rose Trust.

"I’m very lucky to work behind the scenes on the ship. I get to walk on the main and hold decks and I go up in a crane to work on the upper and orlop decks....

During the last semester of my Master’s studies in Objects Conservation at the University of Oslo, I chose to travel abroad to work as an intern at a conservation institution. Since my main interest is organic and inorganic materials found in marine archaeological environments, the Mary Rose Trust was my...

One of the more unexpected objects found on the Mary Rose wreck site is a Coconut, which may or may not have been on the Mary Rose. It was found in the scour pit caused by the ship on the seabed, but the layer of mud it was found it...

The conservation work undertaken on the Mary Rose’s objects involves not only preserving and stabilising the artefacts, but continuing to look after them when on display or in storage, to make sure that they can be studied and enjoyed by future generations.

Our collection comes from the largest underwater archaeological...