Jeroen VermeerschGhent University | UGhent · Department of Archaeology
Jeroen Vermeersch
Master of arts in maritime archaeology
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Introduction
PhD Researcher in Maritime Archaeology at the University of Ghent focusing on Roman, Medieval and Early Modern ships and shipping in Flanders.
Additional affiliations
August 2010 - September 2014
Position
- Maritime Heritage Researcher
Description
- Ship archaeologist on De Kogge project. Researching the ship construction of two 14th-century wrecks.
August 2010 - October 2014
November 2014 - August 2015
Publications
Publications (10)
Excavations in the Bruges' Medieval outer ports of Hoeke and Monnikerede, located along the Zwin tidal inlet, revealed numerous rounded cobbles of exotic geological provenance among which were two specimens of remarkable mineralogical composition. An interdisci-plinary study combining archeological, geological, petrographic-geochemical, and histori...
In 2002, the preserved bottom part of a wreck was excavated, identified as a cog, and named Doel 2. An interdisciplinary research programme (2010–2014), revealed that the ship was constructed after 1328 with wood from northern Poland. Complete 3D-registration of the timbers, and structural analysis showed it had a keelplank with a natural upward cu...
In 2000, a well-preserved, c.21 m-long shipwreck, Doel 1, was found upside-down in a silted-up creek near the river Scheldt (Belgium). An interdisciplinary research project was initiated, including 3D registration of all timbers, wood species identification, dendrochronology and archaeobotanical analysis of the caulking material. Doel 1, of which 7...
