• Title/Summary/Keyword: Yeongheung-do shipwreck

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Radiocarbon Dating of a Wooden Board from Yeongheung-do Shipwreck Using Wiggle Matching of Decennial Tree-Ring Samples (10년 간격 연륜의 위글매치를 이용한 영흥도선의 방사성탄소연대 측정)

  • Nam, Tae Gwang;Kim, Taek Joon;Moon, Hwan Suk
    • Journal of Conservation Science
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.279-285
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze radiocarbon dating, using wiggle match, of a wooden board from Yeongheung-do shipwreck excavated from Yeongheung-do in Incheon Ongjingun. The result of wiggle matching for 5 decennial tree-ring block samples of the hull bottom board produced ${\pm}2{\sigma}$ radiocarbon date (95.4% confidence interval) as A.D. 710~730 or A.D. 750~774. It indicated that the Yeongheung-do shipwreck belonged to the early or middle of the 8th century. Radiocarbon dating results confirmed the date speculated by archaeologists according to ship structure and pottery style.