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| Glass Mystery Objects for ID by Dan B. |
Dan B. said. "I have identified these in the past but it's been a while apparently. Found in shell pile at beach." They are glass with convex and concave sides.
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Glassmaking, like ceramic production, is one of those skills that went into abeyance in post-Roman Britain. The people of Britain seem to have been supremely competent when working in metal, wood, leather, bone, stone, textile, and even manuscript illumination during the early medieval period, but for glass they went elsewhere. High-status carousers at Tintagel and Cadbury used decorated glassware from south-west France and Spain for their alcohol consumption in the 5th and 6th centuries, while glass of Continental and Mediterranean origin was finding its way to high-status settlement sites as far apart as Devon and Strathclyde. Meanwhile, excavated finds from East Anglia show that this fragile material was reaching the region from the Rhineland. Rare and jewel-like millefiori glass was used as a decorative insert into early medieval metalwork – again possibly imported from the near Continent – and grave goods show that high-ranking women wore necklaces in which glass beads were treated as equivalent to semi-precious stones and jewels...Here is the link for a lot more interesting history about glassmaking.
Glass roots: examining the archaeology of glassmaking in England – The Past (the-past.com)
When you first start bottle hunting you probably look for bottles that you somehow recognize. In many cases, the bottles have some type of label or embossing that tells you a great deal about it including its age and what it was used for. Over the years I've learned to identify more about a bottle just by the look of the glass. In fact that is now what I appreciate most. I like to see the bubbles and other marks and features from the bottle making process. Older bottles are much thicker and have much more irregular thickness than modern bottles that are very thin. You can get a pretty good idea of the age of a bottle just by looking at a small piece of the glass and the general consistency. In many cases can tell what kind of bottle it was even if there are no labels and markings to inspect. Some bottles turn purple with exposure to the sun, which tells you something about the chemicals used to make the glass.
It is generally accepted that the ultra-violet light initiates an electron exchange between the manganese and iron ions. This changes the manganese compound into a form that causes the glass to turn purple.---
Here is an excerpt of an article that talks about rogue waves.
But it wasn’t until New Year’s Day 1995 when a 26m high surge was recorded at a gas platform in the North Sea, that scientists started taking their reports more seriously.The extreme waves have been blamed for numerous incidents at sea. In 2018, for example, eight crew members had to be rescued when massive waves hit and sank a fishing boat off the coast of Hawaii.
More recently, a rogue wave slammed into a cruise ship in the Southern Ocean, shattering windows and injuring several passengers, one fatally. However, it remains unclear how common rogue waves actually are.
One study based on media reports captured just 210 rogue waves between 2011 - 2018, but the real number is thought to be much higher...
And here is the link for more of that one.
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About 200 "irreplaceable" books worth more than £2.5m ($3.2m), which were stolen from a warehouse in London, have been found buried under the floor of a house in rural Romania, police say.The works include first editions of Galileo and Isaac Newton.
They were taken by thieves in January 2017 who cut holes in the roof of a warehouse in Feltham then abseiled in, dodging sensors.
The men were identified as being part of a Romanian organised crime gang...
Here is that link.
Stolen books worth £2.5m found under floor of Romanian house (bbc.com)
Before I got into metal detecting I collected old books. I still like old books a lot and think it is a shame that books are going out of favor. Looking through old books can turn up treasures too. It is not uncommon to place money and other ephemera between the pages of books. I've talked about that before and I think I found a few treasures found between the pages of books. One of my favorites was a book I picked up very cheaply that I sold for over a hundred dollars. It was written by a very famous person, and his business card was found inside the book. You can also often sometimes find inscriptions and signatures of famous people in books.
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It seems the media keeps discovering things that was known and published years ago. It seems they make old news new again - or try to. And some news was denied so people didn't believe it to begin with. You might remember that I posted this "news" way back right after the COVID epidemic started. I clearly remember that, but here is the link to the rediscovery of the news.
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I'll expand on some of these topics in the future. I hope someone remembers of can figure out the identity of Dan's mystery objects. I have some ideas.
We are still having southwest winds and a small surf - down around two feet. The tides aren't big either.
We did finally get some good rain. You might want to check some runoff erosion or other rain caused erosion. Rain can uncover things on a beach.
Good hunting,
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