Canada Goose Humerus (VCU_3D_4959)

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This bone was unearthed from the sunken shipwreck, Betsy (44YO0088), situated in the York River near Yorktown. The remnants of Betsy were remarkably preserved, affording researchers the chance to collect valuable data on eighteenth-century shipbuilding techniques and furnishings (Broadwater 1992:39). It was part of a fleet of vessels deliberately sunk by the British in 1781. See John Broadwater's study (1992), Shipwreck in a Swimming Pool: An Assessment of Methodology and Technology Utilized on the Yorktown Shipwreck Archaeological Project, published in Historical Archaeology 26(4):26-46. The artifact was 3-D scanned using a Go!Scan 50 at the archaeological curation facility of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources in Richmond, Virginia. The model is courtesy of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, which has granted permission for non-commercial educational use.