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Castro, F., Fonseca, N. and Wells, A. (2010), “Outfitting the Pepper Wreck”, Historical Archaeology, Volume 44, pp. 14-34

This article is part of a series of papers on the attempts to reconstruct and understand an early-17th-century Portuguese Indiaman based on the archaeological remains of the presumed Nossa Senhora dos Mártires, a Portuguese nau that sank at the mouth of the Tagus River, Portugal, in September 1606. With the help of 3-D computer software, the authors try to understand how the interior space of this ship was used and occupied, and propose a plausible size, weight, and configura¬tion for the cargo storage, which will be tested in terms of the fully loaded ship’s intact stability. The result is intended as a theoretical model of a ca. 1600 Portuguese nau. Only further archaeological probing will tell whether it is an accu¬rate model or not.

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