Cleaning Submerged Artillery: Tools and Methods Used to Conserve Cannon from Blackbeard’s Flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (1718)

Author(s): Erik R Farrell; Jeremy Borrelli

Year: 2017

Summary

The conservation cleaning of concreted marine-archaeological cannon is a complex and multidimensional problem. At present, archaeologists have uncovered 30 cannon amongst the shipwreck remains of Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR). Currently, the QAR Conservation Laboratory holds 18 of these cannon in various stages of conservation. This places the QAR Lab in a unique position to develop practical treatment solutions for such a large collection of submerged artillery. Various tools and methods are used to progress the conservation process, many of which have been modified in some manner from their original or previously-published forms. This poster will detail the tools currently used at QAR Lab, their construction or modifications, as well as the methods and protocols surrounding their use. Additionally, the known and suspected limitations of these techniques will be addressed.

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Cleaning Submerged Artillery: Tools and Methods Used to Conserve Cannon from Blackbeard’s Flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (1718). Erik R Farrell, Jeremy Borrelli. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435577)

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Keywords

Temporal Keywords
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): 517