Promotion: Lead ingots found in shipwreck at Hornsea 3 wind farm site

Promotion: Lead ingots found in shipwreck at Hornsea 3 wind farm site highlights how seabed work for the Hornsea 3 offshore project has uncovered rare maritime finds. The UK’s £8.5 billion Hornsea 3 development, which will become the world’s largest single offshore wind farm when complete, required detailed marine and land investigations before construction. Those seabed studies at the build site led to three lead ingots from a 17th-century shipwreck. Each ingot weighs around 70kg, and the trio will be handed to the Peak District Mining Museum in Matlock, Derbyshire. Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 team worked with MSDS Marine, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Historic England to analyze and preserve the wreck and cargo. The ingots, stamped with marks “IS,” “EB” and “H,” may be linked to Derbyshire lead and were found aboard a vessel possibly Dutch, matching a route from Hull to the Netherlands.