7/13/20 Report - Blue China Shipwreck. Gold Prices Increasing. Ancient Necklaces Made By Early Sea Shell Collectors.

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Site of BA02

Source: See link to Jacksonville "Blue China" Shipwreck below.

I found a good study of the "Blue China" wreck, which lies about 70 miles east/southeast of Jacksonville.  The study was conducted by Odyssey Marine Explorations and provides a lot of great information and photos.  Above is one illustration of the site.

Plates and Jars on the "Blue China" Wreck Site.
Source: Odyssey Marine Explorations Report (link below)

Source: See link below.

There is  a lot to see in this report.  Here is the link.

Jacksonville "Blue China" shipwreck.

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Source: Kitco.com

Gold has been doing well.  As you can see from the above chart, the price has increased from just over $1400/oz. to over $1800/oz. in the last year.

After peaking back in 2011, it has almost reached those levels again recently.

Source: Kitco.com.

Silver, on the other hand, has not be doing so well.  Silver was nearly $50/oz. back in 2010, but is below $20/oz. today.

Source: Kitco.com.

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Picking up seashells has been a human habit for almost as long as there have been humans. Archaeologists found clam shells mingled with other artifacts in Israel’s Misliya Cave, buried in sediment layers dating from 240,000 to 160,000 years ago. The shells clearly weren’t the remains of Paleolithic seafood dinners; their battered condition meant they’d washed ashore after their former occupants had died....

Shell collectors at Misliya seemed to like mostly intact shells, and there’s no sign that they decorated or modified their finds. But 40,000 years later and 40km (25 miles) away, people at Qafzeh Cave seemed to prefer collecting clam shells with little holes near their tops. The holes were natural damage from scraping along the seafloor, but people used them to string the shells together to make jewelry or decorations. Tel-Aviv University archaeologist Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer and her colleagues examined five shells from Qafzeh and found microscopic striations around the edges of the holes—marks that suggest the shells once hung on a string...

Here is the link to read more about that.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/ancient-seashell-beads-may-help-unravel-the-origins-of-string/

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No storms to be concerned about right now.

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

7/1/18 Report - Farmer Finds Gold Digging Drain. Some Say Cape Canaveral Shipwreck Likely Trinite. Shipwreck Site Sampling Plan.

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Norman Witherow uncovered the gold objects on Saturday when he was digging a drain in a field near Convoy.

The artefacts remained in his kitchen and car boot until Tuesday when his friend, who is a jeweller, told him that it needed to be reported.

Initial observations by staff from the National Museum of Ireland date the gold from the bronze age or earlier.

Here is the link for the rest of the story.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44644347


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Chuck Meide of LAMP recently wrote in the St. Augustine Report about the GME discovery of the shipwreck near Cape Canaveral that I recently posted about on 6/25/18.  Meide thought it was almost certainly the Trinite, one of Ribault’s 1565 shipwreck.  Anyhow, it appears the case is closed and the shipwreck will be the property of France.

In the report Meide states,  We led a search for Ribault’s wrecks in 2014 in the waters of Canaveral National Seashore, near the French survivor camp sites on land. This was probably in the vicinity of the other three shipwrecks, as opposed to Trinité further south. NOAA helped fund our research, as did the State of Florida...  In addition to all of these searches, the State of Florida also led a marine survey searching for the remains of the Trinité, around Cape Canaveral, starting in 2014. They were probably pretty close to the site discovered by GME.

To sum that up, a lot of tax payer dollars went to organizations that failed to find the Trinite, but a private company without tax dollar support, Global Marine Explorations, actually found it.  Never mind, GME will get totally cut out of the deal so state employees, and their contractor friends can get the credit and more trips to Paris.

Here is the link for more of that article.

http://staugustinereport.net/index_htm_files/Trinite.pdf

Like I've said multiple times, I'll be very surprised if Florida ever issues a new treasure salvage lease.

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Source:: See link below.

You might find the following interesting.  It is, A STRATIFIED SITE SAMPLING RESEARCH PLAN FOR THE 2005-2006 INVESTIGATIONS AND RECOVERY AT NORTH CAROLINA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SHIPWRECK SITE 31CR314 Mark Wilde-Ramsing, May, 2006.


 Introduction: North Carolina shipwreck site 31CR314 has been under investigation since its discovery in 1996 and continues to reveal a rich assemblage of early 18th century maritime cultural materials. The analysis of datable artifacts that have been collected from the site provides a mean date of manufacture of 1706 with predominately French and English affiliation (Wilde-Ramsing 2006). Ship's features reveal a vessel of 200 to 300 tons (Moore 2001; 2006). Armament represented on the site is equivalent to that of a Royal Navy Sixth Rate warship, while the presence of langrel shot in one of the small caliber guns suggests a predator or heavily armed merchantman rather than a Royal Navy warship (Henry 2006)...

This is about shipwreck sites and artifact distribution.

Here is the link.

https://files.nc.gov/dncr-qar/documents/files/32-Spring-2006-Recovery-Plan.pdf

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This feels unfinished.  I might rework or add to it tomorrow, but decided to go ahead and post it now.

Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net