In 1626, a ship foundered in stormy seas and wrecked on Cape Cod, where the passengers were aided by the local Indigenous population and the Pilgrims in nearby Plymouth. Now the most in-depth scientific analysis of timbers found more than 150 years ago has provided the best evidence yet that they belonged to the ill-fated vessel known as the Sparrow-Hawk. The results of an international, multiyear study on the remains of the ship were published Friday in the “Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.”
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New analysis provides more clues about Pilgrim-era shipwreck
