16th International Symposium on Boat & Ship Archaeology

72 16 th International Symposium on Boat & Ship Archaeology Irena Radić Rossi 1 & David G. Ruff 2 1 University of Zadar, Department of Archaeology, Zadar, Croatia 2 Institute of Nautical Archaeology, College Station (TX), USA Second scuttled ship of Trstenik, Kaštel Sućurac, Croatia: Preliminary report In the small bay in front of residential houses in Trstenik, at the eastern end of Kaštel Sućurac, the remains of an economic complex from Roman times can be seen in the shallow sea. Traces of human activity in this place date back to the 1 st century BC. Underwater research started in 2002 with the recovery of a large perforated dolium, and continued over the next five years. In 2006, the well-pre- served remains of a ship, scuttled and used to reinforce the operational water- front, were discovered in the western part of the site. The ship was researched in 2012, 2015 and 2020. In 2020, while cleaning the bow of the ship at the eastern end of the trench, one extremity of another ship was discovered, consisting of keel or post, two stringers, four frames and several planks. Given the limited time, the remains of the second ship were quickly recorded and protected on the seabed, pending future work. Then, during the cleaning of a wooden structure composed of planks and poles forming part of the operational waterfront, the remains of a third scut- tled ship were found at the western end of the trench. Unlike the previous two ships, which lay in an east-west direction, the third ship is oriented in the north- south direction and follows the wooden coastal structure that turns to the north. The paper presents the preliminary results of research carried out on another ship at Trstenik.