16th International Symposium on Boat & Ship Archaeology

73 Zadar, Croatia | 26 September – 1 October 2021 Morten Ravn Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark A 14 th -century Boat-Find from Vordingborg Castle, Denmark In 2012 the remains of a well-preserved 14 th century rowing boat, c. 5.5 m long and 1.3 m wide, were un-earthed while restoring the moat at Vordingborg Castle, Denmark. This paper presents the excavation and documentation of the boat- find, as well as the recently (2019-2020) conducted model reconstruction and dendrochronological and metallurgical investigations. The paper concludes with a discussion of the written evidence of using small rowing boats, comparable to the Vordingborg Boat, in a military context in the 12 th -14 th centuries Southern Scandinavia.