27 cannons and half a ton of silver found in the waters of the Bay of Cádiz

Drawing of the 27 cannons located in the bay of Cádiz.

The archaeologists Ernesto Toboso Suárez and Josefa Martí Solano, from Gerión Arqueología and the , have made public in their study Extraction and documentation of artillery from the Delta I wreck that 27 cannons from a 17th century French ship and 18 silver ingots, weighing approximately half a ton, have been found in the bay of Cádiz. [Este texto es un extracto del boletín semanal sobre arqueología de EL PAÍS, ‘Cuatro piedras’.].

Ingot with fleur-de-lis.

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