Blackbeard inevitably shows up in any research about pirates. I've been finding out cool little facts about him that I hadn't known originally. For one thing, he spent a lot of time in Port Royal, which I thought was interesting. Piracy and Port Royal is usually the pre 1692 earthquake, privateering sort of history, so any piracy connection in the early 1700s is fascinating. Secondly, Blackbeard's mother apparently lived in Spanish Town, Jamaica which is where my mom is from too.
Anyway, on to the discovery:
archaeologists now suspect they've found one more clue behind the pirate's menace: what could very well be Blackbeard's sword, or at least part of it. National Geographic published photos released by a team that has for over a decade been excavating the Queen Anne's Revenge, which was Blackbeard's flagship until it ran aground in an inlet off the coast of North Carolina in 1718. These include fragments of a gilded hilt and pommel, possibly of French design (Blackbeard's ship was a retrofitted French merchant vessel). The shipwreck has been worked on since 1997. NatGeo has more pictures of objects recovered here. [Time]
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