Artifacts Could Have Belonged to Blackbeard
Daniel McNamara
Patricia Smith
Jacksonville Daily News
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Greenville, South Carolina (US):
Archaeologists working with the Queen Anne's Revenge Project have found a coat button and some hardware that looks like it might be part of a set of shackles - both items that could have belonged to the pirate Blackbeard or one of his crew.
The artifacts are buried in separate concretions of sand and shell raised from a shipwreck on the ocean floor.
"We're planning to work on the two concretions during January to extract the button and the possible shackles," said Sarah Watkins-Kenney, who heads up the QAR Conservation lab in Greenville.They know the items are there because they had the concretions x-rayed. At least they know the button is there. They're not certain the other item is shackles.
Jan 04,2006
Daniel McNamara
Patricia Smith
Jacksonville Daily News
__________________
Greenville, South Carolina (US):
Archaeologists working with the Queen Anne's Revenge Project have found a coat button and some hardware that looks like it might be part of a set of shackles - both items that could have belonged to the pirate Blackbeard or one of his crew.
The artifacts are buried in separate concretions of sand and shell raised from a shipwreck on the ocean floor.
"We're planning to work on the two concretions during January to extract the button and the possible shackles," said Sarah Watkins-Kenney, who heads up the QAR Conservation lab in Greenville.They know the items are there because they had the concretions x-rayed. At least they know the button is there. They're not certain the other item is shackles.
Jan 04,2006
