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The recovery of artifacts during the 1998 field season was limited to specimens uncovered during normal hand fanning or those encountered on the surface. Several significant artifacts, however, were collected before the field season by conscientious sport divers and turned over to the National Park Service. Because the recovery of artifacts from any archaeological site destroys their archaeological context, the sport divers were asked to participate in the field season and helped document the approximate location of each recovered artifact. Catharine’s binnacle was also found by sport divers approximately 30 feet southeast of the wreck site. Subsequently, the National Park Service informed the Archaeology Institute of its existence. The find acted as the catalyst for the 1998 field investigation of the shipwreck.
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Burns, J.M. (2003). Catharine’s Artifact Assemblage. In: The Life and Times of a Merchant Sailor. The Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0209-8_6
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