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Crew of the Bottomline Salvage Vessel
Finding Treasure Off The Treasure Coast.
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I got a couple photos of brand new 1715 Fleet finds from Captain Jonah Martinez. Jonah is working on the Bottomline this year. Here is an eight and some four-reales that they've found.
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| Reales Recently Found by Crew of the Bottomline. |
Thanks Jonah.
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Here is a two piece button bearing a lion and crown. I'd like help if anyone can identify it.
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| Unidentified Two Piece Button Find. |
The back of this button is missing, but the front is in good condition.
It is just a little less than 3/4 an inch across.
Any help is appreciated.
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Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle.
Yesterday I showed what I think is a piece of soldier art. That is one piece of a puzzle. I think it is a very interesting piece, but yet it is only one piece.
The puzzle is of one place and time in history. A lot of the pieces are there. I showed the island, the landscape, the fort, where the cannon were, and some of the other things found there, including some buttons that tell us some of the regiments that were there.
On the island you can still see some of the stone walls where the parts of old buildings still stand. You can see the paths that were undoubtedly the same paths used hundreds of years ago. And we can read much of the history of the island, including about the battle.
That is a land site that hasn't changed much. Relics can be found at about the same place where they were dropped. That is one of the advantages of land sites that haven't been much disturbed.
Putting it all together you get a pretty good picture of that one time and place in history. There is layering. One era rests on another. There were the times long before when the indigenous populations used the island, and there were times later. The different time periods are like individual picture puzzles that have to be put together, each one on top of the other. \
On Pigeon Island, the late 1700s is the most evident time period. Many of the large pieces are still there, including some of the buildings and forts, but there are pieces of puzzles from other time periods still there as well.
Occasionally a piece of the puzzle from one era will get mixed in with the pieces of another. That happens at some places more than others, like on the side of a steep slope where erosion occurs and things fall towards the sea, but there are a lot of pieces from that one period that you can put together to form a pretty good picture. That is the way it is with some land sites, but it is much more difficult on a constantly changing beach.
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The topics are getting active, and it is time to start keeping a close eye on the weather. We might get a storm that produces some nice erosion, and you want to be ready for that.
We have had so much flat surf, and it is continuing for now, but the systems are beginning to come off of Africa.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
You can see Barry down by Louisiana. The yellow system will probably fizzle out by the time it gets into the Caribbean, but you can't say for sure yet, and there will be other systems developing out there.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
