These ceramics were found at a depth of about 54 metres (177 ft), located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the port city of Cirebon.
[4] The ship was identified as a Western-Austronesian vessel of about 30 metres (98 ft) length, possibly built in the area around the Straits of Malacca.
The site of her foundering lies on a straight course from the Bangka Straits of southern Sumatra to the area around today's Semarang on Java.
The stowage pattern of the cargo signals that most of the stoneware and ceramic cargo had been taken aboard in ports of Southern China, most possibly Guangzhou, where around that time the Nanhan Kingdom, one of the Ten Southern Kingdoms during the era of the Five Dynasties, was coming to an end; Fine Paste Ware kendis and vases from the Satingpra / Kra Isthmus area found in the higher layers of the site imply a stop there; Middle Eastern glasswares and semi-precious stones and Malay tin were added at a stop in one of the southern Sumatran ports of the Srivijayan federation.
Considering the importance of this find for the studies of economy and trade history, also marine archaeology; experts, historians and archaeologists urged the Indonesian government to keep and preserve most of the wreck's contents intact.