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| Small Cut At Turtle Trail Tuesday Afternoon. |
I was in the Vero area today so stopped to take a look at the Turtle Trail beach near low tide. It was sandy, but there was a small cut (above) high on the beach.
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| Turtle Trail Tuesday Afternoon. |
You might remember that not too long ago the erosion control bags were exposed. That wasn't the case this afternoon.
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| Turtle Trail Tuesday Afternoon. |
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| Source: telegraph.co.uk link below. |
The excavation of the first HMS Invincible has revealed the original hand cut water-level markers have survived 200 years under the sea.
Swivel guns, a gun port lid, the main stay and even a mop head and bucket were recovered. Other finds include clay pipes, wig curlers and a number of bottles – some with their contents still preserved...
The most significant excavation of the three-year project was to lift the cutwater; the front most part of the ship. Weighing over 5.8 tonnes and over 9 metres in length, the piece still has its original hand-carved draft marks cut into it, showing how deep the ship sat in the water...
Here is the link for more about that.
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The stone, discovered in 1973 in Union County, was clearly too big and heavy to qualify as one of the ubiquitous arrowheads found in agricultural fields across the state.
It’s 7.2 inches long, 2 inches tall and nearly an inch and a half wide, the N.C. Office of State Archaeology posted on Facebook.
So what is it?
David Cranford of the Office of State Archaeology believes what the landowner found is an ancient tool: An adze (or adz) used for smoothing and trimming wood...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/unusual-stone-artifact-found-in-north-carolina-likely-dates-from-3000-to-1000-bc/ar-BBY4cvc?ocid=spartandhp
