Monday, June 8, 2020

6/8/20 Report - Shipwreck Bochie or Manillas From 1600s Wreck. Fenn Treasure Finally Found. Sebastian Beaches.


Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Sebastian Sunday
Beachcam image submitted by JaminJack.

Jaminjack sent these two beach images.  The first was a little earlier when there were fewer people out.

You can see the scooped front beach and some dips in the water.


Sebastian Later Sunday.
Beachcam image submitted by JaminJack.

Thanks Jack.

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Odyssey Marine explored a shipwreck found at the Western Approaches to the English channel.  the wreck, dated to circa 1660 - 1680, appears to be a merchant vessel of the Royal Africa Company.  36 iron cannon, a quantity of elephant tusks and copper bracelets were among the artifacts discovered on the site.


Manillas or Bochie
Bracelets Used As Money in West Africa Up To The 1940s.
Source: Odyssey Marine, Paper 23.

In Odyssey Marine Paper 23, bronze or copper bracelets that were used as money in West Africa since at least the 1500s, were discussed.  It is thought that originally they were created by the indigenous Africans from rods or spikes salvaged from shipwrecks.  Later they were manufactured in great numbers by Europeans who traded them for slaves, gold, ivory and other products.

 West African exchange demanded enormous quantities of this form of currency. As early as 1504-07, just one trading station along the Guinea coast imported 287,813 manillas from Portugal (Davies, 2002: 47). In modern terms of monetary exchange they yielded high dividends. In 1505 a Portuguese merchant reported that at Calabar a large elephant tooth could be exchanged for one manilla and a slave purchased for eight to ten copper manillas (Einzig, 1949: 150-1; Johansson, 1967: 12)…

The Odyssey paper provides a detailed study of the wreck, including much damage by fishing trawlers and provides many pictures of the site and artifacts found on the site.

Here is the link for more of the study.

https://www.academia.edu/3597456/Neil_Cunningham_Dobson_and_Sean_A._Kingsley_A_Late_17th-Century_Armed_Merchant_Vessel_in_the_Western_Approaches_Site_35F_?email_work_card=title


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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Famed art and antiquities collector Forrest Fenn, who hid $1 million in treasure in the Rocky Mountain wilderness a decade ago, said Sunday that the chest of goods has been found...


Fenn posted clues to the treasure’s whereabouts online and in a 24-line poem that was published in his 2010 autobiography “The Thrill of the Chase."...


Fenn told The New Mexican in 2017 that the chest weighs 20 pounds (9 kilograms) and its contents weigh another 22 pounds (10 kilograms). He said he delivered the chest to its hiding place by himself over two separate trips...
Here is the link for more about that.


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Cristobal weakened as it moved inland.

On the Treasure Coast we'll have a few days of smooth surf.

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