The lead archeologist is saying some strange things.
He talks about ordinary chain shot as if it was a unique improvised weapon that only this pirate used. Well chain/bar shot was in common use by navies to take down rigging.
It’s not to “terrorize” an enemy, its to win by crippling the opponent ability to manuever.
And langrage is just a slight change to cannister/grape shot, something also widely used by navies and not unique to pirate.
So they found ball, grape and chain shot, just like you would find on any warship of the time.
“During the expedition, which ends this week, the team are also fixing experimental zinc anodes to any large metal items they are not yet able to recover, including cannons.
The devices will conserve the artefacts before they can be brought to the surface by slowing, and possibly even reversing, the process of corrosion.”
Of all the fantastic ways in which stories of piracy on the high seas stretch the imagination, this bit about the “corrosion-reversing anode” takes the cake!
The examination of this wreck has been going on for years. I have seen some the arifacts at the Maritime Museum in Beaufort, NC (my Mother lives near there). Some of them are striking.
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