Dating the Sparrow-Hawk
Author(s): Aoife M Daly
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
In 1626, a ship making its way to Virginia reached land at Cape Cod. On board were two Englishmen and many Irish servants. The ship was damaged and the travelers were allowed to stay at the plantation at Plymouth while they awaited passage south.
After a storm in 1863, at ‘old ship harbor’, a shipwreck was exposed and the remains lifted. This ship, named the Sparrow-Hawk, was hailed as the very same ship that had brought the Virginia-bound passengers to Plymouth.
In January 2018, samples from the ship timbers, now housed at the Pilgrim Hall Museum, were extracted for dendrochronology, to discover whether this ship is indeed a European ship from the 17th century. This work received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677152). The dendrochronological analysis was inconclusive, so radiocarbon dating was the next step.
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Dating the Sparrow-Hawk. Aoife M Daly. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457343)
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Keywords
General
Early Settlers
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Timber
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wiggle-match
Geographic Keywords
Denmark
Temporal Keywords
Seventeenth Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: 8.093; min lat: 54.562 ; max long: 15.138; max lat: 57.736 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 501