North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Shipwreck Capitana; Site Number: _____; County: N/A; State: FL; Country: USA; Ownership: Peal Eight Company; Landform: Atlantic Ocean Floor;

Date of Site: AD 1715; Period Type: Historic; Culture: Spanish; Site Type: Shipwreck; Site Size: more than 8 acres;

Survey Type: Magnetometry-Total Field;

Instrument: Privately constructed proton-type magnetometer; Sampling Interval: _____; Prospecting Depth: _____; Area Surveyed: ~209,032 sq m; Date of Survey: Summer 1965; Land Cover Type: Water; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Ferrous distribution of the shipwreck (shaded area) as determined by the magnetic anomalies;

 

Project Name: Shipwreck Capitana, FL;

Reference: Clausen, C.J. (1966). The Proton Magnetometer: Its Use in Plotting the Distribution of the Ferrous Components of a Shipwreck Site as an Aid to Archeological Interpretation. Florida Anthropologist 19(2):77-84 (used with permission).

Survey by: Carl J. Clausen and Treasure Salvors Incorporated.

Survey for: Treasure Salvors Incorporated;

Report Location: NA; Report Type: Journal Article;

Abstract/Summary