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| Wood casks were used as containers for both cargo and provisions on ships until into the twentieth century. Studies of casks recovered from a shipwreck can provide information on coopering, trade, and shipboard life and potentially on the nature of the ship. A cask is defined as `a wooden vessel of a cylindrical form usually bulging in the middle, of greater length than breadth formed of curved staves bound together with hoops, with flat ends or a `head.' The cask assemblage comprises 183 fragments of: iron hoops, 9 wood staves, and 2 heads; also recovered is one set of complete hoops in concretion and 31 concretions containing an unknown number of hoops. No complete casks have been found. Altogether, the total collection of cask elements represents a significant part of the QAR artifact assemblage. |
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