The Paragan Wreck, preliminary study of a late XVIIth-early XVIIIth c. ship from Corsica's coast (Bonifacio, France).

L'épave de Paragan, étude préliminaire d'un navire de la fin du XVIIe - début du XVIIIe siècle sur la côte de Corse (Bonifacio, France)

Éric Rieth (1, 2, 3) , Cibecchini Franca (4) , Hélène Botcazou (5, 6)

1 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2 LAMOP - Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
3 Musée National de la Marine de Paris
4 DRASSM - Département des Recherches Archéologiques Subaquatiques et Sous-Marines [Marseille]
5 LA3M - Laboratoire d'Archéologie Médiévale et Moderne en Méditerranée
6 IPSO FACTO [Marseille]

In June 2015, a Corsican diver from Bonifacio, Jérôme Poggi, discovered along the coast of the little bay of Paragan a well preserved hull exposed at the surface, at only 2,5 meters depth. A team of experts was quickly organized by Franca Cibecchini, the official responsible of the Corsica region at the Underwater Archaeology Research Department (DRASSM, French Ministry of Culture) in July 2015. Several shards of Ligurian faience were found dating the wreck between the end of the XVIIth c. and the beginning of the XVIIIth c. In April 2016 a school fieldwork began on this wreck, organized within the International Master of Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (MoMArch), led by Aix-Marseille University (AMU) and DRASSM. The excavation is co-directed by Franca Cibecchini (DRASSM) and Eric Rieth (CNRS). The main objective of this excavation is to identify the architectural principles and processes of Mediterranean building tradition, and finally, to make hypothetical restitutions of the original ship and its nautical qualities, that will provide new interesting data on coastal shipping in the modern era. Another objective is to train MoMArch students to the methods and techniques of naval architecture on the field.

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire

Éric Rieth, Cibecchini Franca, Hélène Botcazou. The Paragan Wreck, preliminary study of a late XVIIth-early XVIIIth c. ship from Corsica's coast (Bonifacio, France).. Under the Mediterranean. The Honor Frost Foundation Conference on Mediterranean Maritime Archaeology, Oct 2017, Nicosia, Cyprus. ⟨halshs-03449140⟩