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Iberian Shipwrecks in the Americas: The Case of the Highbourne Cay Wreck

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The Highbourne Cay Shipwreck is one of the earliest European shipwrecks in the Americas and may represent a Spanish caravel. As with many other shipwrecks in shallow waters, it was found by sport divers in the 1960s and heavily salvaged. The site was partially excavated and published in the 1980s and revisited by a new team of archaeologists beginning in the 2010s. This chapter details the story of the site, the activities and preliminary results of the last archaeological intervention, and the shipwreck’s present situation.

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  1. St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum, St. Augustine, FL, USA

    Nicholas Budsberg

  2. Texas A&MUniversity (TAMU), College Station, TX, USA

    Charles Bendig

  3. Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Lisbon, Portugal

    Filipe Castro

  4. University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), Lampeter, UK

    Nigel Nayling

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  1. Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

    Ana Crespo Solana

  2. História, Territórios e Comunidades, Center for Functional Ecology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Lisboa, Portugal

    Filipe Castro

  3. Institute of Education and Humanities, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, Ceredigion, UK

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Budsberg, N., Bendig, C., Castro, F., Nayling, N. (2022). Iberian Shipwrecks in the Americas: The Case of the Highbourne Cay Wreck. In: Crespo Solana, A., Castro, F., Nayling, N. (eds) Heritage and the Sea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86464-4_7

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