Video courtesy of WECT TV6 Wilmington, NC
WINNABOW – Archaeological investigations at Brunswick Town/Ft. Anderson State Historic Site have discovered a 147 year old wooden gun platform that supported an 11,360 lb. Sea Coast 32-Pounder cannon. The excavations mark the first archaeology to be undertaken at the site in over 40 years and are the [...]
GREENVILLE – Visitors soon will see how researchers figure out what are some of the artifacts recovered from the wreck of the purported Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), Blackbeard’s flagship, found near Beaufort. The loot includes gold dust, cannons, ballast stones, bones, and bells, among more than 100,000 recovered artifacts. Conservators analyze and document the artifacts [...]
Marauders. Plunderers. Bloodthirsty sea-thieves. Whatever their name, pirates have wreaked havoc on the high seas since waterway travel began. These seafaring scoundrels command attention in a major exhibit that opened Friday, March 6, at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. Knights of the Black Flag explores the legacy of pirates, from ancient times to [...]
RALEIGH – Commercial and residential development in coastal North Carolina have increased dramatically in the past 25 years. Archaeologists, anthropologists and other scholars will gather at East Carolina University on Oct. 11 to discuss and review the approximate 12,000 year old archaeological landscape along the coast.
“With the exception of increased coastal erosion, the basic landscape [...]