Strike the Bell!: Creation of a Diagnostic Database of Known Early Ship's Bells
Author(s): Samuel M Cuellar; Filipe Castro
Year: 2018
Summary
Ship's bells have long held the fascination of laypeople and scholars alike. Despite this fascination, little information is known about the earleist ship's bells from the 14th through the end of the 17th century. While numerous archaeological examples do exist, these either lack provenance, are fragmented, or do not follow a standarized method for analysis, making diagnostic comparisons exceedingly difficult or impossible. Recognizing this problem, the authors have undertaken the creation of a database of all known ship's bells. The purpose of this database is to develop a standardized methodolgy in the study of archaeological ship's bells in order to provide a tool for the diagnostic identification of future bell discoveries.
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Strike the Bell!: Creation of a Diagnostic Database of Known Early Ship's Bells. Samuel M Cuellar, Filipe Castro. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441476)
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Keywords
General
bells
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Database
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diagnostic
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
14th-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): 730