The ship was also full of Purbeck stone, a type of limestone made from tightly packed freshwater snail shells that originates on the Isle of Purbeck off the southern coast of England. Among the ...

The percentage of the population from abroad in Dorset's Isle of Purbeck - a rural peninsula ... The report included England, Wales and Scotland, but not Northern Ireland, because of the number ...

The stricken medieval vessel—known as the "Mortar Wreck"—lies at the bottom of the sea off the coast of the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in the county of Dorset, southern England. The ship ...

The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth. By A. Strahan. Pp. xi + 278. (London: Printed for her Majesty's Stationery Office, by Wyman and Sons, Ltd., 1898.) ...

THE local flora embodied in the pages of the book before us appears to be usefully compiled, though perhaps the volume as a whole would have been improved had it been printed on thinner paper, so ...

Some 750 years ago, a ship loaded with intricately carved gravestones, Purbeck limestone and grinding mortars sank off the coast of Dorset, England, just over a mile from the nearest harbor.

David McFarlane (left), Jack Craig (centre) and Robert Prowse had been fishing on the Purbeck Isle The poor condition of a fishing boat probably contributed to the deaths of three fishermen who ...

Robert Prowse, 20, was on the Purbeck Isle along with David McFarlane, 35, and Jack Craig, 21, when it sank off Dorset on 17 May 2012. All three men died. Mr Prowse's body has never been found.

At some point during the 13th century, under the rule of Henry III, a wooden ship transporting special limestone sank off the coast of southwest England. The vessel remained hidden in the English ...