David Moore

David Moore is an American archaeologist and historian. He is best known for his work on the Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project. The Queen Anne's Revenge was the flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Moore has worked as a maritime archaeologist exploring a shipwreck believed to be part of the 1622 Spanish treasure fleet sunk near the Dry Tortugas. The wreck, located in 1332' of water, yielded olive jars, copper, gold, silver, glass and other cultural artifacts. He also served as project archaeologist for the team that excavated the wreck of the slave ship, the Henrietta Marie. In 1983 he discovered the watch bell which positively identified the shipwreck. The Henrietta Marie wreck has yielded more than 7000 objects (and more than 30,000 glass beads), the largest collection of artifacts known from a slave ship. Parts making up more than 80 bilboes, which were typically used to shackle pairs of slaves together, have been found at the wreck site. Other items found at the wreck site include trade goods apparently left over from trading for captives in Africa, goods acquired in Africa in addition to captives (recovered c.half dozen elephant tusks), and gear belonging to the ship and crew. Show less «