What is recorded here
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Dispatch as Wreck from the Ôl-ganoloesol period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The Dispatch was a vessel recorded in the National Monuments Record of Wales as a wreck from the early medieval period (circa 10th–11th century). Its exact loss circumstances, cargo, and any lives lost are unknown, but it is considered significant as a rare example of a pre-modern shipwreck in Welsh waters.
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