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A total of 112 whole and fragmented glass vessels, likely dating back centuries, were found in June 2024 during underwater archaeological work in Chengene Skele Bay in Bulgaria’s Bourgas district, the Regional Historical Museum Bourgas said on July 9.
The archaeological work was done by a team from the National History Museum led by Professor Ivan Hristov, and involved dives in five areas in different parts of the bay.
The discoveries in June this year follow the finding of dozens of fragments of glass objects in the bay in 2020 and 2021.
It has been suggested that the glass may have been a cargo spilled from a boat or ship during a storm and high swell.
The probability that the wreckage of the vessel carrying the glass vessels is near the location of the discovery of the glass fragments is very high, the Regional Historical Museum Bourgas said.
The basis for this hypothesis is provided by several fragments of iron anchor chains and highly fragmented ceramic vessels found underwater, bearing traces of ceramic production characteristics of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance...
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... Mansfield is thought to have been born in the early eighteenth century in West Africa, then enslaved and trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean. He was eventually freed in New England, where records show that he bought two acres of land in 1762 and constructed a stone house. The site of the home had been lost over time, however. Mansfield is known to have hosted hundreds of free and enslaved Black people at his home in an annual event known as “Black Election Day,” where he was elected to the title of “King,” and entrusted to handle important matters for the local Black community, nearly every year until his death. The structure discovered at the site matches the descriptions of Mansfield’s home found in the historical documentation. “The big find was the handmade pebble foundation without quarry rock,” said Meghan Howey of the University of New Hampshire. Large stones were usually purchased for foundations, but the use of river pebbles, she explained, indicates that this home had been built by a self-reliant person without access to a quarry...
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Historic home foundation located.
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When trying to make sense of the world around us we do not perceive every small component. You can look for individual elements, such as erosion, shells, or high waves, and each one might provide a clue or a sign, but you can also see the overall situation as an integrated complex system. As they say, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." The individual elements fit together in relation to each other forming a scenario that if you've been metal detecting for many years will create recognizable patterns.
Unfortunately the most "stand-out" scenarios or situations are truly exceptional and all too rare. You might remember the time the dunes were cut to create an eight-foot cliff, as was the case a few years ago at certain locations. That is a rare event, but what makes it really stand out is when there is also truly exceptional hunting with a seemingly endless number of good, or great, targets.
Those types of events stick in your memory. You remember many details, not just the cut, or the waves and tides during and after the event, or the slope of the beach in front of the cut, or the rocks or shell piles exposed, or even the wind and rain, but also the finds.
The most memorable days for me are varied. Some were shallow water days. Some were high beach days. Some were days crowded by many detectorists flocking to the same beach while others were days when I was the only one on the entire beach. Some were stormy days while others were beautiful sunny days. They are special unique days, and you can spend years or even decades hoping to see the same situation again. It forms an indelible multi-sensory image that you may never see again. See The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 11/11/19 Report - History Between the Pages of Old Books. Memorable Metal Detecting Experiences.
When you walk out onto a beach you might first of all notice a particular feature such as the shape of the beach or the amount of sand or erosion. You might see particular features or elements, but if you just stand there and let your mind take in the everything, your mind will put it all together.
Look for the individual features and take them in, and test your hypotheses, but then slow down and quietly stand there for a few seconds, letting your mind work to put it all together until you get that peaceful feeling that seems to intuitively lead you. At one level you will consciously and analytically assess the situation but at another level your mind will synthesize the data. That way you will get the best of both worlds.
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The Treasure Coast tides are moderate and the surf still small. Nothing on the NHC map right now.
Good hunting,
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