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An early- 16th-century wreck was not what Florida businessman and salvage hunter John Browning expected. In the summer of 1991 , Browning and hi s associates were prospecting along a coral reef north of West End, Bahamas, when they di scovered the wreck in side the reef buried under 6 feet of sand and coral. In the opinion of Florida State Archaeologi st Roger Smith, who vi sited the site in the summer, thefind promises to increase the archaeological record of ships of the period of discovery fourfold. "To their credit," says Smith, "they recognized immediately that what they had found had archaeological significance. It is the largest early 16th-century site I've seen on thi s side of the Atlantic." The tentative dating is based on artillery discovered on the heav ily armed vessel. Archaeologists and divers working for Browning's St. John 's Expeditions and Mel Fisher's Maritime Heritage Society, a nonprofit organization formed by Fisher after hi s controversial commercial salvage of the Spanish treasure galleonAtocha, began excavation of the site this past summer. About 25 percent of the site has been excavated so far, uncovering a large number of fragments of plates, pitchers, oli ve jars and every class of period weapon, including a large section of a soldier's helmet and a rare crossbow complete with cranking mechanism. According to site archaeologist David Moore, the site is not being commercially salvaged. Because the Bahamas lacks any conservation faci lities, artifacts are being A contemporGJy engraving by Th eodore de Bry depicting a typical sea-going vessel of conserved at the Maritime Heritage the mid-16th century. Society's facilities in Key West, Florida. From a visit to Havana in October, at the invitation of the Cuban government, Roger Smith reports on the preservation of another I 6th-century wreck. For the past two years Cuban archaeologists have been taking the wreck from a reef on the coast of Cuba to El Morro, the castle in Havana harbor, for conservation and display . Smith reports the wreck is well preserved. The bow section is missing but the entire hull below the waterline from above the main mast back to the rudder is present. Dated to 1590, the wreck is thatoftheRosario--a vessel known to have been attacked and sunk by English voyagers on the second voyage to the first Engli sh settlement in the New World at Roanoke, Virginia, under the command of Christopher Newport. KH SEA HISTORY 64, WINTER 1992-93