The Conservation of a Historic Artifact of the Revolutionary War Battle in Southern New Jersey.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement for Heritage Monitoring and Protection" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

An obscure historical on October 6-13th, 1778 along the Mullica River in Port Republic, New Jersey, resulted from the actions of local privateers in confiscating British merchant ships. British General Sir Henry Clinton decided to move against this “Nest of Rebel Pirates”, as he referred to them, destroying the town and the remaining vessels at Chestnut Neck in the Battle of Chestnut Neck. One of these prize vessels, named by Gordon Watts in 1975 as the Bead Wreck. The Bead wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Shipwrecks. The BEAD Anchor was accidently dredged up from this site during a marsh sampling trawl. It was donated to Stockton University in 2016. Stockton is conserving this historic artifact with the permission of the State of New Jersey and is using this process as a teaching experience for Marine Science students at the Marine Field Station in Galloway. 1778

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement for Heritage Monitoring and Protection

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PaperId(s): 148