The Sinking Of The Indian -1817- Or How History Resurfaces

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

On January 10, 1817, at 4 a.m., the Indian, an English three-masted ship of about 500 tons, with 193 people on board, was thrown by the storm onto the reefs of the Kerlouan coast (French Brittany).

The Indian had left London under the command of Captain James Davidson, and was part of a fleet of five ships bound for Venezuela with a contingent of British troops to support Simon Bolivar's revolution.

Discovered in 1992 by a sport diver, the wreck was subjected to looting before being identified and excavated in 2012.

The site delivers more than three hundred archaeological objects that were the object, in 2013, of a presentation to the public within an exhibition.

The submitted paper invites the reader to return on the history of the Indian, now that the cross study of archival documents and its archaeological studies have allowed it to be restored.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SHA 2023 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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