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I found a really good online book entitled The Nautical Archaeology of Padre Island: The Spanish Shipwrecks of 1554, by Barto Arnold III and Robert Weddle of the Texas Antiquities Committee (the link is below).
The book goes over the history of the ships, the wrecking, and a good list of recovered artifacts along with illustrations. Included are the detailed costs preparing the wrecks and provisioning.
One of the things that caught my attention was the illustrations of splash ingots such as this one.
The one on the left reminded me very much of a similar silver splash ingot found on the Treasure Coast. Here is the bottom of that one.
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| Bottom of Splash Ingot with Shell and Sand Firmly Adhering. |
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| Copper Strap Find. |
There is much more that you will want to read in that report.
Nautical_Archeology_of_Padre_Island.pdf
That should keep you busy a little while.
There was also mention of the range markers used by the archaeologist. It reminded me of something I used to do when detecting in shallow water.
In order to mark my spot in the water, maybe because of a good hot spot or good find. You could get a line on the spot by lining up two objects that are different distances from the water. Maybe a fence post in front and a telephone behind. It might take a while to locate the two markers that align from the spot, but it could usually be done. Maybe it as a tree trunk and the edge of a building or a door or something. That would help me to stay on the line even if the water was rough and kept moving me off the spot or if I wanted to return to the same area later. If you could find two sets of markers that created intersecting lines then you could really hit the spot. After moving to the Treasure Coast my water hunting decreased a lot and I almost forgot about the technique I used a lot when I was spending a lot of time in the water.
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A few days ago a meteor was spotted over the Cleveland area.
A 1-ton meteor streaked over Texas on Saturday - and part of it may have hit a home.A 1-ton meteor streaked over Texas on Saturday - and part of it may have hit a hom
We have some meteor hunters that read this blog. Florida isn't the best place to find meteors, but I guess it has been done.
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Can you believe it? Apple Computer turns fifty on April 1.
I still have a working Mac Classic. I didn't think much of the GUI (graphic user interface), but it has become the thing. Now almost everybody uses a GUI instead of something like the old DOS command line system.
I'll have to say I became accustomed to the Mac. I liked the Old Classic. You could carry your program with you on the floppy disc. Programs didn't take up so much memory in those days.
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Nothing exciting there.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net