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

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