1/24/18 Report - Various Shipwreck Finds From the Treasure Coast. Slave Ship. Bigger Surf Coming Soon.

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Finds and photo by Terry S.

I received the find pictures and the following message from TerryS.  Terry said,  While out there detecting we often find things that we need to research to determine what it is that we just found. These items often look old and of course the first thing we wonder is if is from the 1715 Spanish Plate fleet. They could be valuable or of no value but if you have a metal detector and it looks old it’s neat and research is half the fun.

Finds by JP

Terry continued, These are some items that JP found.  A large bronze ships spike, a brass fastener of some sort and a small silver half reale coin. The second picture is really neat and we thought it may be the butt of a pistol. I took it to the coin show at Vero and two experts said it was a pistol butt. The third expert I showed it to said it’s behind the handle of a sword and holds a spike used in close in fighting. He said he was pretty sure because he had found a sword that had a piece just like this one. Apparently research is never an exact science but I tend to believe the sword theory.

Found by JP.

This is a bent ornate key and DB showed it to an expert treasure diver and he said that it’s from the 1715 fleet. It really would be nice to find the treasure box that this key opened. It probably opened a box that held some wealthy ladies jewelry and I know right where DB found it.

Bent Ornate Key Found by DB.

Congratulations guys!  Thanks for sharing.

More tomorrow.

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Gulf Coast Wreck Could Be Last U. S. Slave Ship.  Below is the link for more about that.

http://www.columbian.com/news/2018/jan/23/report-gulf-coast-wreck-could-be-last-u-s-slave-ship/

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The surf predictions from MagicSeaWeed show a four to seven foot surf for the Fort Pierce area by on Friday.  That has held up pretty good.  They may have improved their prediction models.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net