12/9/22 Report - Civil War Florida Saltworks or Shipwreck(?}. Equinox News. Trade Routes Determined by Metal Analysis. Bigger Surf.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Salt Manufacturing Facility On Florida Beach.
Source: MyfloridaMemory.com

I recently reported on the mystery structure uncovered by erosion on Daytona Beach. Archaeologists were called in to investigate. One of this blog's readers did some research of his own. below is what he found.  

Not lacking in access to saltwater, salt production was a major industry in Florida.  With the Union blockade of the state, the Confederacy could no longer rely upon imported goods and so turned to local production of goods.  Along Florida’s coastline many salt works were built to gather the mineral.  Giant iron kettles such as the one pictured here (used near Steinhatchee, in Taylor County) would be filled with salt water and placed over a large fire.  Over time the water would evaporate away, leaving the salt which could then be collected and shipped away.  These factories could greatly range in size and complexity. ..

(Civil War Salt Works - Florida Department of State (myflorida.com))

See also Volusia’s Vital Engagement in the Civil War | Volusia History (wordpress.com)

And also 

https://www.floridamemory.com/fpc/memory/onlineclassroom/floridacivilwar/documents/saltworks/saltworks.jpg

SaltWorks on Florida Beach.

Thanks for the research DJ.  Not only might it explain the structure, but it also provides some good information on Civil War Florida.

A recent article suggests the object is a 1800s shipwreck.  We'll see.

Here si that link.

Scientists Explain Mysterious Object Found on Beach After Hurricane (msn.com)

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You can now pre-order new Equinox models - the 700 and 900.  The 900 has a gold mode.

You can look up the other advertised differences.

But I understand there will be another new Minelab coming out soon - the Mantaca, or something like that.

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A study was conducted an analysis of ingots to determine the sources and trade routes.  Here is the abstract of the study.

This paper provides the first comprehensive sourcing analysis of the tin ingots carried by the well-known Late Bronze Age shipwreck found off the Turkish coast at Uluburun (ca. 1320 BCE). Using lead isotope, trace element, and tin isotope analyses, this study demonstrates that ores from Central Asia (Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) were used to produce one-third of the Uluburun tin ingots. The remaining two-thirds were derived from the Taurus Mountains of Turkey, namely, from stream tin and residual low-grade mineralization remaining after extensive exploitation in the Early Bronze Age. The results of our metallurgical analysis, along with archaeological and textual data, illustrate that a culturally diverse, multiregional, and multivector system underpinned Eurasian tin exchange during the Late Bronze Age. The demonstrable scale of this connectivity reveals a vast and disparate network that relied as much on the participation of small regional communities as on supposedly hegemonic institutions of large, centralized states.

Here is the link to the study.

Tin from Uluburun shipwreck shows small-scale commodity exchange fueled continental tin supply across Late Bronze Age Eurasia | Science Advances

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Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.

The surf today will be increasing through the day.  The wind will be mostly from the north.

The high tides remain high.  The full moon was beautiful last night.

Good hunting,

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