This large, lead musket ball measures approximately 0.8” in diameter. Dark gray lead from sea floor. From the collection of author/publisher Dean Thomas who was researching for a book about early round shot when he died. In that process, he had accumulated a large collection of shot from all eras and numerous sites around the world, including many early ship wrecks.

The Nuestra Señora de Atocha was a Spanish treasure galleon and the most widely known vessel of a fleet of ships that sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1622. At the time of her sinking, Nuestra Señora de Atocha was heavily laden with copper, silver, gold, tobacco, gems, and indigo from Spanish ports at Cartagena and Porto Bello in New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama, respectively) and Havana, bound for Spain. The Nuestra Señora de Atocha was named for the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha in Madrid, Spain. It was a heavily armed Spanish galleon that served as the almirante (rear guard) for the Spanish fleet. It would trail behind the other ships in the flotilla to prevent an attack from the rear. Much of the wreck of the Atocha was recovered in 1985.  [jet][ph:L]

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