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Marine Art as a Research Tool for Investigating Cask Assemblages Found on Eighteenth Century Shipwrecks Identified as Slave-Trade Ships (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah C Watkins-Kenney. Lynn B Harris.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Casks were containers for provisions, supplies, and trade goods aboard ships in the Atlantic world for over 2000 years. On eighteenth century ships engaged in the “Triangle of Trade” the number, capacities, and contents of casks carried depended on stage of the voyage. Identifying a historic shipwreck as a slave-trade vessel may...

Round Pegs and Square Holes: The Casks from Vasa. (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John E Ratcliffe.

The casks from Vasa exhibit features infrequently observed in other collections of archaeological cooperage, including distinctive square holes at their midsections, heads that are made of only two to four edge-joined pieces, and evenly spaced bands of hoops. In contrast, Iberian and French cooperage typically exhibits exclusively circular bungholes, heads made of five or six pieces reinforced with a bar, and hoops clustered at opposite ends of the cask. The square-holed Vasa casks were made of...