Gun Carriage Components from the Queen Anne’s Revenge: A Preliminary Review

Author(s): Stephen B Atkinson

Year: 2018

Summary

This research aims to tentatively identify gun carriage components from the Queen Anne’s Revenge (1718) (31CR314), based on clear context to cannon when in situ as well as definitive gun carriage hardware traits, in order to better understand the construction of the carriages present on the QAR. The identification of these potential naval gun carriage components includes cleaned hardware and concreted (observed via x-radiography) as well as possible identification of examples of rigging analogous to gun carriage tackle.

The nature of nationality and date range will also be addressed, assessing known features of French, English, and Scandinavian naval gun carriages, from the late 17th and early 18th centuries and what variations through time they may have, in order to better identify the components present from the site.

Cite this Record

Gun Carriage Components from the Queen Anne’s Revenge: A Preliminary Review. Stephen B Atkinson. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441230)

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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): 209