Topics Related to Cultural Resources (DCR)
Although the ship itself and a large portion of its contents—such as cask staves, gunstocks, and gun carriages—would have been made of wood, very little wood remains on site, for a variety of reasons.
Pewter flatware, often referred to as plates or dishes depending on their size, provide one of our best methods of dating the wreck site of Queen Anne’s Revenge, as well as one of our most palpable links
As you have been following along with us, you have probably become aware of the scarcity of goods made from precious metals found on Queen Anne’s Revenge.
Footwear has been considered a necessity throughout history and examples have been recovered from archaeological sites worldwide.
With the slow wrecking of Queen Anne’s Revenge, you wouldn’t expect much of value to be left on board and you would be absolutely right!
Blackbeard had now left the scene of the disaster at Beaufort Inlet, along with the wreckage of his once proud flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge. Toward the end of June, he and a select crew headed for the town of Bath aboard the remaining Spanish sloop, now armed with eight guns and renamed Adventure. He had left the majority of his crew marooned, and had stripped Bonnet’s ship Revenge of its sails, preventing a hasty pursuit once Bonnet himself returned from Bath to see the betrayal which had transpired.
What do all of these things have in common?...Shoes. Shoe buckles have been around for centuries, their use and predominance changing with the fashion of the time.
Metal objects from the Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck site vary greatly in their make-up, condition and functional use.
On or around June 10, 1718, Blackbeard lost his Queen Anne’s Revenge at Topsail Inlet, present-day Beaufort, NC.
Medicine in the 18th century was quite different than in modern times.