WRECK OF CAPO DONATO B. XV-XVI CENTURY A.D.
STONE PROJECTILE
MUSAS Ref. No.:
KR-10
Inv. No.
6702/M, Archeomar 2007
Description
Spheroidal stone projectile. Belonging to a petrary or a small bombard.
These projectiles were mostly used with heavy breechloaders in wrought iron.
Dimensions
Diam. cm 8.8
Materials
Limestone
Location
National Archaeological Museum of Crotone.
Origin
Wreck of Capo Donato B
Dating
XV-XVI century A.D.
Biological degradation
No traces of biological colonisations are visible.
References
Close to Capo Donato there is a wreck (Capo Donato B) that returned stone projectiles, perhaps attributable to a petrary. One of these projectiles is kept at the depots of the National Archaeological Museum of Crotone (see the data card of the artefact below). Its diameter is about 8,5 cm, so it can be assumed that the shipwreck took place between the XV and the XVI century A.D. A section of the quickworks (1) remained on site, where glazed and greasy ceramics fragments were found (2).
NOTES
1 MEDAGLIA 2008, p. 98.
2 Project Archeomar research (MIBAC), 2007.
REFERENCES
Medaglia S. 2008, Per un censimento dei relitti antichi lungo la costa crotonese. Nota preliminare, in Ricerche archeologiche e storiche in Calabria: modelli e prospettive,“Atti del convegno di studi in onore di Giovanni Azzimmaturo (Cosenza 2007)”, Cosenza, pp. 93-120.