Investigations in deep waters: the treasure of Batz Island

This is the second instalment of this series that explores the seabed to locate sunken ships. On this occasion, the surveys carried out by the DRASSM lead archaeologists to Batz Island, in the French region of Brittany, where they locate a Roman wreck with a shipment of more than 800 tin ingots. Through an exhaustive study of the type and layout of the ingots, they will obtain valuable information about the tin trade in the 3rd and 4th centuries BC.

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