Mensun Bound

Mensun Bound (born 4 February 1953) is a marine archaeologist, based in Oxford. He was born Michael Bound in 1953 in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands and educated at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Rutgers University.He is the Triton Senior Research Fellow in Marine Archaeology at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.[1]


In 1980, he established the Marine Archaeological Research (MARE) unit in Oxford.

His publications include The Archaeology of Ships at War (1995), Lost Ships (1998) and A Ship Cast Away About Alderney (2001).

In 1992, Bound was awarded the Colin Mcleod Award for “Furthering international co-operation in diving” by the British Sub Aqua Club.[2]

Elizabethan Maritime Trust

Since 1992, Bound has been at the forefront of an archaeological research into an Elizabethan ship that sank of the north west coast of Alderney in 1592. In the course of this, Bound found three cannons. Cannons made in Tudor times were of different sizes of bore, so finding the right cannonball for the right cannon was time-consuming during battle. In Elizabethan times, the threat from the Spanish made English naval power vital, and importance was given to new cannons having a uniform bore; a ship with ten cannons abreast firing at the same time provided increased power and gunnery for the newly developed English navy.


References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2008-05-31. St Peter's College, Oxford
  2. ↑ "Colin Mcleod Award". British Sub Aqua Club. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2013.


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