Vicar of Bray: The Archaeological Autopsy of a mid-19th Century Barque in the Falkland Islands
Author(s): James P. Delgado; Deborah Marx; Amy Borgens; Matthew S. Lawrence
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Maritime Transportation, History, and War in the 19th-Century Americas" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The barque Vicar of Bray, built in1844, was a substantially intact hulk utilized for storage and then as a breakwater both in Stanley and finally at Goose Green in the Falkland Islands. It was one of more than a dozen "intact" 19th and early 20th century wood, iron and steel vessels that formed part of a unique maritime cultural landscape and ship graveyard in that sub-Antarctic graveyard. These hulks have been the subject of a number of previous documentation and in some cases sucessful and aborted recovery projects. In 2017, we documented the final collapse of Vicar of Bray and its transition from ship to shipwreck with the support of the National Geographic Society. This paper summarizes the historic and archaeological context of the ship, its site formation processes, and concludes withoveral observations on the maritime cultura landscape of the islands,
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Vicar of Bray: The Archaeological Autopsy of a mid-19th Century Barque in the Falkland Islands. James P. Delgado, Deborah Marx, Amy Borgens, Matthew S. Lawrence. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449115)
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Keywords
General
maritime cultural landscape
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ship graveyards
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Site Formation Processes
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th 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): 353