Conservation of a Spanish Breastplate from the 1559 Luna Colony

Author(s): James A. Gazaway

Year: 2020

Summary

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This poster recounts the 2017-2018 conservation process of a Spanish breastplate recovered after being submerged for over 400 years from the wreck site of the Emanuel Point I . The Emmanuel Point I is the name given to the first Spanish ship from the Luna Colony of 1559-1561, found by divers from the State of Florida and the students/staff of Archaeology Department of the University of West Florida. The beastplate, found in 1995, was not fully conserved until 2018 and this poster looks at the process of the conserveration along with the discoveries about the bresatplate revealed during the process.

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Conservation of a Spanish Breastplate from the 1559 Luna Colony. James A. Gazaway. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457430)

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Keywords

Temporal Keywords
Spanish colonial

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): 855