Utrecht – Is the excavated Utrecht stink ship in the Centraal Museum exactly 1000 years old today? To answer that question in advance: we cannot date an excavated archaeological find with such certainty. So, was it made on April 22, 1023? No idea. But we can be quite precise these days. If you continue reading this article, you will soon know everything we do know about dating thanks to the annual rings of the wood.
Is the Utrecht stink ship exactly 1000 years old today? ‘The annual ring thicknesses are a kind of barcode’
