Did you know?! This lice comb was found in a concretion from the Storm shipwreck, a 1782 American Revolutionary War shipwreck excavated by St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum archaeologists and students from 2009-2017. Believed to be made of ivory, the comb had salts removed before being treated with a reinforcing agent. This was completed by conservators on site at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum. Lice combs were important in early shipboard life, as lice were extremely common. It was determined that the wreck carried loyalists (or Tories) evacuating Charles Town, SC and fleeing to British East Florida, which was still loyal to the crown. As many as 16 ships from Charleston (the name of Charles Town today) wrecked on the St. Augustine sandbar on New Year’s Eve, December 1782. As British loyalists ran in fear of the victorious Americans, many lost everything they had to the sea. Excavation recovered hundreds of artifacts but we do not always know what they are ri...