A shipwreck known as Cap del Vol, is located in the municipality of Port de la Selva, in Alt Empordà in Catalonia. It was looted by German divers at the end of 1960's. They extracted a considerable number of amphorae which are supposed to be in the hands of private collections.

At the end of the 1970's, X. Nieto and F. Foerster partially excavated the shipwreck. During these works, various characteristics of the ship were documented, such as several ways to join the frames to the hull. In 2011, CASC (the Underwater Archaeology Center of Catalonia) decided to restart the excavation of Cap del Vol, which only had been partially excavated, to gain more knowledge about its building characteristics.

The ship carried wine stocked in Pascual 1 amphorae which were produced in Baetulo (near present day Barcelona), and was probably sailing to Narbonne in France.

The wreck has inside and outside planking. The ship had specific building features, probably related its construction near Conventus Tarraconensis (the Roman part of eastern Spain). The excavation works documented unique characteristics to join the frames to the hull, with no parallels in other sites. From 1991 onward a group of shipwrecks were restudied in France and these showed a particular technique to assemble frames to the hull using the so-called 'internal laced technique'. This group of shipwrecks were defined by Pomey to have a specific architectural signature and in the Cap del Vol was included in it.

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Frames on the seabed.

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