Tracing Connections: Seventeenth-century Derry/Londonderry in global perspective

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The walled city of Derry-Londonderry was a central place in the seventeenth-century Ulster Plantation, designed as a fortified English settlement intended to operationalize English authority over the north of Ireland. Yet it also was a city in which people made their lives, subverting and transcending the rules of plantation that dictated separation between incomers and natives. Artefactual evidence from the town’s seventeenth-century ditch highlights the manner in which intercultural relations were materially brokered, while also shedding light on the city’s entanglement with the broader Atlantic mercantile world.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life

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