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Much of La Fortuna’s possible shipwreck sits on a beach in North Carolina. | Credit: ECU Program in Marine Research
Archaeologists have discovered four 18th century shipwreck Along the coast of North Carolina, including what may be La Fortuna, a Spanish partner from Cuba, who broke out during an attack in 1748.
Types found nearby BrunswickGreat colonial port on the southern shore of North Carolina. The city was the first successful European settlement of the Cape Fer region (named after the fears of 16th -century sailors of a shipwreck), and the port is used to export pine products such as tar and turpentine used by the Royal Fleet. But archaeologists who explore the area did not expect to find such a large number of remains and colonial artifacts.
“Visibility [underwater] It is constantly quite low in the Cape Fair River, “said Corey Van Hayes, a graduate student at the University of East Carolina (ECU), in a statementS Van Hayes disorienting during diving and encountered beams protruding from the mud. “I didn’t understand what I was looking at at that moment,” said Van Hayes, “but I knew I had to convey the wooden structure to the teachers.”
The Co-Leader Project, ECU Marine Archaeologists Jason Rape and Jeremy BorelliConsider that one of the remains, which consists of 47 timber, is La Fortuna. Historical records Note that two Spanish ships were anchored by the city of Brunswick on September 4, 1748. The Spaniards began to invade the then English city, but they were surprised by the counter-attack by the colonists a few days later. During the attack, La Fortuna broke out and sank.
The project team found two main clues that the ruin is really La Fortuna: Timbers and the artifacts nearby, including Spanish ceramics.
Part of the wood used in the ship’s construction is from a cypress, a native of Central America. This suggests that the shipbuilders used raw materials from a Spanish Caribbean colony to build the ship, according to the statement, and La Fortuna is the only Spanish ship known to have sunk in the area.
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A saving piece of wood with Roman numerals on a beach
A built -in ball with the Roman numbers IIIIV, inscribed on it, found near one of the colonial ports in the city of Brunswick.
The Azze Sitting Sitting on the Beach
Cooper’s Cuttingtool was found on the beach in Brunswick.
Man holds a fragment of a blue and white piece of ceramics
A Majolica Spanish Ceramic Sherma Ceramic was found in the Assembly of shipwrecks, restored from the beach in Brunswick.
Pieces of timber, eroding from the beach
The website of the colonial port of timber is exhibited by the eroding coastal marsh of the historic site of the city of Brunswick.
As he recorded shipwrecks this summer, the team “Find Hundreds of Artifacts,” Borelli told Live Science in an email, including “ceramic sardines, glass container bottles, clay tobacco tubes, Adze of Cooper’s Adze [cutting tool]Barrel heads and steps, sailov, leather shoes, possible fragments of clothing and broken animal bone. “In addition, two fragments of the Spanish-American ceramics of the 18th century are” another clue supporting the preliminary identification of Fortunesaid Borelli.
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The other three remains are still something a mystery. They all have building details and artifacts that suggest that they were used in the 1700s, Borelli said, which means that the remains are probably related to the 50-year life of the colonial port in Brunswick. But coastal erosion drastically influenced the archaeological site, dispersing the remains of shipwrecks over a wide area, he said.
Rape and Borelli plan to continue their investigation into the remains.
“As we dig deeper and reveal more evidence, it can bring us in a different direction,” Borelli said. “It is very amazing that some of the other shipwrecks found in the city of Brunswick are Spanish ships, but we cannot exclude anything at the moment.”