Coastal Archaeology

Shipwreck remains appeared on Broad Sands, west of North Berwick after last winter's storms.  We often ride along this beach on our fat tyre bikes.
On a recent visit we noticed the timber ribs, stem post and keelson as well as the mast recess appearing out of the sand.
Subsequent research revealed the following..... extracted from  a local archaeology article...
"After a rapid condition survey, the team found that the wreck was an oak-built ship of at least 6 m beam and 25 m long which had also seen repairs to it using iron fittings. Looking through the historical records for wrecks and reported losses in the area. the team found the most likely candidate to be the Verein, a German two-masted brigantine which stranded in a storm one mile west of North Berwick in 1884. The ship, registered at Stralsund in the Baltic, was carrying a cargo of oak from Stettin to Sunderland when it was wrecked. The crew survived and were looked after by the people of North Berwick."
It will be there for a while until the sea makes it disappear once more under the ever shifting sands.