Mystery Object #3

Curated by Dr. Grace McNutt, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Cape Breton University, School of Arts and Social Sciences

Our next mystery object is a remnant of the aircraft, a Short Stirling BK716, and we invite you to examine the object's construction, materials and preservation to begin a conversation on the object's purpose, context and broader historiography in the comments below. We invite you to treat this post as a conversation rather than a quiz. There are no wrong answers—only observations, questions, and possibilities. Drawing on your own experiences, disciplinary lenses, or material instincts, consider what this object might tell us before the archival record speaks.