>>    I am putting together a database on swords, daggers, and other edged
>>weapon
>>s and body armor recovered from both shipwreck and terrestrial sites
>>dating fro
>>m the Middle Ages to the present.  I am particularly interested in
>>Spanish New
>>World sites.  If you have any information including site location, date,
>>refere
>>nces, and final disposition of the artifacts, please let me know.  Thanks
>>in ad
>>vance.
 
The Department of Maritime Archaeology has a sword from the Batavia (1629)
site found in a land grave site. In fact it is a type of cutlass, curved
blade, bone handle (composite construction), length about 1 m. Contact me
for further information
 
Jeremy Green
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