The King's Shipyard Surveys, 2019: Submerged Cultural Heritage Near Fort Ticonderoga

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The King's Shipyard Surveys, 2019: Submerged Cultural Heritage Near Fort Ticonderoga," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

After British forces took control of Fort Ticonderoga in 1759, they established the "King's Shipyard" where, in an incredible feat of ship construction, they built the sloop Boscawen and the brig Duke of Cumberland in less than two months. At the end of the Seven Years' War in North America, these vessels, among others seized from the French, were brought back and left to rot in the shallow waters near Fort Ticonderoga. After this, British and American forces each utilized the fort and its waterfront during the Revolutionary War. Less than a century later, a steamboat dock was constructed on top of the King's Shipyard during the lake's commercial era. Understanding this complex assemblage of submerged cultural heritage was the focus of a through-ice geophysical survey and in-water surveys in 2019. This symposium will cover the methodologies of these surveys and examine some of the research generated from their results.