Gone for a Soldier: An Archaeological Signature of a Military Presence aboard the Storm Wreck
Author(s): Brian J. McNamara
Year: 2016
Summary
Six seasons of excavation have yielded numerous artifacts from the Storm Wreck, site 8SJ 8459, a ship that wrecked off St. Augustine on 31 December 1782 as part of the Loyalist evacuation fleet from Charleston, South Carolina. Many of these artifacts reflect the presence of military personnel amongst the ship’s passenger grouping. These include Brown Bess muskets and diagnostic regimental uniform buttons, which spurred archival research in England and Scotland that has led to a better understanding of which British Army regiments were in and evacuated from Charleston on the December 1782 fleet. This paper will discuss a number of these artifacts and how they fit within the greater context of the Loyalist evacuation, ultimately leading to the identification of the Storm Wreck as one of sixteen vessels reported lost during that event.
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Gone for a Soldier: An Archaeological Signature of a Military Presence aboard the Storm Wreck. Brian J. McNamara. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434990)
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Keywords
General
British Military
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Florida
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St. Augustine
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Storm Wreck
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
American Revolution, Late 18th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 814