Two Worlds in One Shipwreck

Title: Two Worlds in One Shipwreck

Lecturer: Wytze Stellingwerf, Archaeologist and Specialist of Late and Post-Medieval Material Culture, Archeologie West-Friesland.

Description: This lecture discusses the extensive archival research undertaken of the shipwreck of the Pieter Anthony in Dutch Wadden Sea, loaded with early 19th-century luxury items and tools related to slavery. The Pieter Anthony, which departed from Amsterdam in November 1822, sunk only a month later during a storm in the Wadden Sea near the isle of Texel. In his lecture, Wytze shall focus on the spectacular amount of transferware that was retrieved from the wreck. Our speaker: Wytze Stellingwerf (1992, MA) graduated at Leiden University in 2017 for the Masters in Historical Archaeology and currently works as an archaeologist and ceramics specialist of the late- and post-Medieval period in the town of Hoorn in the northern part of the Netherlands.