Fully Loaded: Conserving the Contents of Revolutionary War-Era Cannon

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Conservation of Archaeological Materials from Submerged Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In early 2023, the Conservation Research Lab began work on 17 Revolutionary War-era iron cannon and associated artifacts recovered during the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. Many of these cannon had wood tampions concreted in place, protecting the contents in the bores. This presentation will discuss the contents and their conservation, with a focus on the paper powder cartridges.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Conservation of Archaeological Materials from Submerged Sites

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow