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DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethany Becktell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ongoing Care and Study Through a Digital Catalogue of Port Royal", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1655, Port Royal, Jamaica was captured as a consolation prize for Lord Oliver Cromwell after the Spanish soundly defeated an English attempt to conquer Hispaniola. Throughout the rest of the 17th century, Port Royal quickly grew to become the second largest mercantile center in the English colonies and served...