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Creating a Militarized Landscape at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerald F. Schroedl. Todd Ahlman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Military Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean: Studies of Colonialism, Globalization, and Multicultural Communities" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Brimstone Hill Fortress (1690-1854) on the northwest coast of St. Kitts constitutes a militarized landscape that protected the harbor at Sandy Point, provided covering fire for nearby Charles Fort, afforded refuge for the island’s inhabitants, and suppressed...

Excavating The ‘Green Redcoat’:Historical Archaeology And New Approaches To The Irish Military Tradition And Experience In The British Army, 1815-1919 (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only S Gavin M Hughes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland: New Perspectives" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early 1980s, Peter Karsten referred to Irish soldiers in British military service as the ‘Green Redcoat’; a powerful phrase that has been used by many to identify this large group ever since. (Karsten, 1983-4: 34-6) In Irish and British military historiography, the concept of national identity has long...

Global Perspectives on British Archaeology: ‘engaging with East Anglian archaeology through a Japanese lens’ (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam Nixon. Simon Kaner.

This presentation introduces a project providing a new examination of the relationships between local, national and global archaeologies, Global Perspectives on British Archaeology. World Archaeology is a hugely active field of research for British archaeological institutions, with sustained field programs worldwide. In contrast, research on British archaeology sees little involvement of non-British research institutions. Within an increasingly globalised world of education and research, there...

Update: Characteristics of Seventeen Cannon from the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP), Savannah, Georgia. (2025)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa M Carpenter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Materials", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Twenty cannon (intact and partial) were recovered from the Savannah River, Georgia, in 2021. It had been assumed that these cannon were from scuttled British ships during the American Revolutionary War in 1779. Seventeen of these cannon were later transported to the Conservation Research Lab (CRL) at Texas A&M...