Analysis of Lead Recovered from the IDM-013 Shipwreck in Mozambique

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In early 2020 archeologists from the Slave Wrecks Project recovered several samples of lead- as both musket balls and lead caulking. This paper discusses elemental composition, isotopic ratios, and other scientific properties of the lead samples. Implications for ore sources and the ship's nationality will be discussed, as well as implications and possibilities for future research.

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• The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore   •
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