Fish in Tudor Naval Diet-with reference to the Mary Rose

Abstract

Fish remains retrieved in the orlop deck and the hold of the Tudor man-of-war Mary Rose, which sank in 1545 outside Portsmouth, are evaluated with the help of documentary records concerning victualling of the English ?eet during that historical period. Though the bones testify to the almost exclusive presence of processed cod, the biased skeletal spectra and other features of the samples prevent a detailed evaluation of specimens present as well as an estimation of their sizes.