"Waiting for the Passage Boat" – A Maritime Inn in Tróia (Portugal).

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Nuts and Bolts of Ships: The J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory and the future of the archaeology of Shipbuilding" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The passage between Tróia and Setúbal, in the mouth of the Sado River was made, until mid-20th century in small boats. When the weather was rough passengers could wait several days. The closest place when travelling from the South would be the Comporta area where fishermen established a small village. In mid-19th century Portuguese authorities decided that an inn should be established in order to accommodate travellers while waiting for the passage boat.

Recent archaeological work has found a site that could in fact be the remains of that particular inn. The purpose of this paper is to reveal how this building influenced the maritime cultural landscape in that area of the country and discuss how that site can relate to the identity of a maritime population with specific social and cultural characteristics, directly related to their life at sea.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• The Nuts and Bolts of Ships: The J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory and the future of the archaeology of Shipbuilding

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