Possible Spanish Shipwreck From the 1700s Emerges From North Carolina Marsh

Archaeologists in Brunswick County, North Carolina, have discovered four shipwrecks in just two months.

One could be La Fortuna , a Spanish ship destroyed in September 1748, during King George’s War. The researchers found the wrecks and a number of colonial waterfront features in May and June at the Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site (BTFA), the former location of a pre-Revolutionary port and later a Civil War Confederate fort. The exposed remains, previously hidden beneath a marsh, are now vulnerable to erosion.

“We are extremely excited about these important sites, as each one will help us to better understand the role of BTFA as one of the state’s earliest colonial port towns,” Jason Raupp, an archaeologist at East Carolina University who led the discovery team involve