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Fig. 12.13 Iron-core lead shot was a common type in sixteenth-century Europe (Courtesy of
SAS-INAH)

Fig. 12.14 Pottery fragment
identi!ed as western Iberian
type

common to western Iberia, particularly Portugal, but also found on Spanish sites
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circa 1550–1650 (Fig. 12.14). Presumably, it was a personal possession of a
crewman.
Iberian “olive jars” trace their descent from the amphorae of classical antiquity.
While barrels were in widespread use in European ships, Spaniards still used some
of these olive jars. We have found only one neck and three wall sherds in the

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The sherd is described and identi!ed in “The Iberian Earthenware Sherd” by Dr. Marco
Meniketti.