Abstract
An anchor used to hold a ship fast to the seabed and in specified areas of territorial sea is one of the most important and necessary ship accessories. According to relevant literature, especially, there was a very long history of anchoring, which used an anchor stone hung up on the anchor cable put down on the ocean floor, before development in modern shipbuilding technology, but there is a shortage of related studies. Therefore, this study analyzed the shapes and sizes of four relics, which are preserved relatively well, among nine anchor stones that were recently discovered within 1.3kilometers of the Yeongheung-do Shipwreck near Yeongheung-do in Incheon. The analysis result showed that the top and bottom of the center of the anchor stone had clearly processed grooves for tying the anchor cable that have an average length, height and thickness of 133.6cm, 42.8cm and 17.4cm respectively.
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