{"id":416721,"date":"2026-02-09T20:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416721\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:22:47","slug":"timbers-from-17th-century-shipwreck-appear-on-dorset-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/416721\/","title":{"rendered":"Timbers from 17th Century shipwreck appear on Dorset beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hefin Meara, maritime archaeologist from Historic England said: &#8220;The Swash Channel wreck is one of only 57 shipwrecks around the coast of England designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Firmly dated remains of vessels predating 1700 are exceptionally rare. We can&#8217;t say for certain that these fragments come from that wreck site, but it&#8217;s an intriguing possibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Protected wrecks have legal protection, meaning that any disturbance or interference is only permitted under an official licence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is hoped the timbers revealed at Studland will join the collection currently displayed at Poole Museum.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Until then, visitors have been urged to help protect the site by not touching the exposed timbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hefin Meara, maritime archaeologist from Historic England said: &#8220;The Swash Channel wreck is one of only 57 shipwrecks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-416721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}