How To Use Shallow-draught In A Sentence
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If this is correct, it implies that the harbour was still capable of taking trading shipping at a useful volume, at least for shallow-draughted ships like those used by the Norsemen, until at least the tenth century.
Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure
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A functioning harbour, at least for shallow-draughted vessels;
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I would think that ships probably were a factor in logistics, on the logic that this was the case in the better-documented later Norse wars, and seventh-century ships were also shallow-draughted and capable of shifting men and supplies long distances by sea and navigable river.
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