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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Keywords
General
Artillery
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Conservation
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Piracy
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
17th-18th Centuries
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