If the canyon has a cannonball has not yet been determined. Four of the 12 guns were loaded even when out of the Atlantic.
"We were all very excited," said Claire Aubel, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Museum of Maritime, The Times. She was there on Wednesday morning when the barrel of the bark cover was pulled drip out of the water a couple of miles south of Fort. Macon in North Carolina. "The last people who saw this were pirates," he said.
Fay Mitchell, a spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, told The Times that when the barrel out of the water, a cheer came from the crowd of about 200 who had gathered.
"It was fantastic," he said.
The canyon is about 8 feet long and weighs about 2 tons. Sarah Watkins-Kinney, director of the laboratory of Queen Anne's Revenge Conservation, told The Times that although it resembles other pre-12 guns taken from the pages, each has its own peculiarities.
Then there is the adventure of finding out what could be trapped in the concrete, cement-like substance that covers the canyon.
"He has a lot of stuff stuck on the outside, so it will be interesting to see what it is," he said.
In the past, researchers have found pieces of rope, stones, arms and other parts of life on the ship's guns removed from the site.
The Queen Anne's Revenge started life as the Concorde, a French slave ship Blackbeard and his crew captured and made the flagship of its small fleet in 1717. The ship sank off the coast of North Carolina in 1718.
Blackbeard did not go down with his ship, but was assassinated six months later in a bloody battle at Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Legend has it that after being beheaded Blackbeard was the sea and swam around the boat on nine occasions.
"But that is folklore, not fact," said Watkins-Kinney.
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