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BLACKBEARD - Recovering "Queen Anne's Revenge"

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« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2008, 04:08:52 pm »









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Two intact green glass onion bottles were found adjacent to one another between two cannons. When compared to contemporary collections, the wine bottles most nearly match those dated to the early eighteenth century. Several additional necks and bases from similar wine bottles have also been recovered, along with fragments of square green glass case gin bottles and the neck of an apothecary bottle still retaining its cork. Intrusive nineteenth- and twentieth-century bottlenecks have also been found on the site.






Ceramics



The ceramic assemblage from the Beaufort Inlet site includes a single rim shard of tin-glazed, red-bodied faience, six pieces of salt-glazed stoneware, including a Rhenish jug, and several parts of two or more very large red earthenware oil jars, including a rim shard, base piece, and a half-oval handle fragment. A nineteenth-century ginger beer bottle was also found on the site.






Gold Dust



Approximately seventy flakes of gold in its natural form were found in a concentrated area intermixed in a field of lead shot and sand. Combined, the gold weighs just under two grams. Although valuables were not expected to be found on the wreck because of the circumstances of its loss, several historical accounts place gold dust aboard the vessel both before and after its capture by Blackbeard.






Miscellaneous Finds



Sixteen decorative lead tacks were recovered. Their shanks are square in section and taper to a point, while the heads are decorated with a rosette or flower with a central boss. The tacks, too soft to be hammered, were likely used to decorate upholstery, furniture, leather-lined boxes, or chests. Other miscellaneous artifacts include two kaolin pipestems, a whetstone, a quarter millstone, a brass sail needle, three brass straight pins, a gold-plated silver button, several lead strips (some with hair and pitch still attached), and a variety of animal bones.
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