Editing Alexander Selkirk (section)

==Archaeological findings==
An [[archaeological]] expedition to the Juan Fernández Islands in February 2005 found part of a nautical instrument that likely belonged to Selkirk. It was "a fragment of copper alloy identified as being from a pair of [[Caliper#Divider caliper|navigational dividers]]"{{sfnp|Takahashi|Caldwell|Cáceres|Calderón|2007|p=270}} dating from the early 18th (or late 17th) century. Selkirk is the only person known to have been on the island at that time who is likely to have had dividers and was even said by Rogers to have had such instruments in his possession.{{sfnp|Takahashi|Caldwell|Cáceres|Calderón|2007|pp=294–295}} The artifact was discovered while excavating a site not far from Selkirk's Lookout where the famous castaway is believed to have lived.{{sfnp|Takahashi|Caldwell|Cáceres|Calderón|2007|pp=274–275}}
In 1825, during John Howell's research of Alexander Selkirk's biography, his "''flip-can''" was in the possession of his [[great-grand-nephew]] John Selkirk, and Alexander's [[musket]] was "in the possession of Major Lumsden of Lathallan."<ref>Howell (1829) chap. V, p. 136, 137</ref>