Sunk – First Results of a Research Project on Tagus Mouth Early Modern Shipwrecks

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Lisbon, The Tagus And The Global Navigation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

On early modern age Tagus bar became an important transition point between river and ocean navigation for ships coming from all parts of the world. The research carried out there since 2018 included the monitoring of Bugio 1 (c. 1700) and the prospection of a large area. This work allowed us to record other contexts, with a material culture that points to an older date, probably the remains of a nau lost when returning from India in 1625 - Bugio 2. It also allowed to identify five more shipwrecks of early-modern to modern times: Bugio 3, a large iron concretion; Bugio 4, a large amount of barrels carrying lime; Parede 1 and Carcavelos 12, both with a tumulus corresponding to artillery ammunition cargos.

SUNK - Early modern Shipwrecks under Tagus Mouth - aims to contextualize these sites in transoceanic navigation. This paper presents the first results of this project.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• Lisbon, The Tagus And The Global Navigation

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