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Weapons

Cutlasses, cannon and what the evidence shows.

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Force, read through the evidence.

A weapon is part of a system: storage, maintenance, crew, vessel and task. Archaeological finds can identify material objects without proving that every pirate carried the same equipment.

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Pirate weapons: evidence before spectacle.

What a wreck, a fragment and a written account can actually tell us.

Cannon, shot and the meaning of a pounder.

Separate the gun, its ammunition and the evidence left behind.