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| Holed Piece of Pottery. |
Some things you never figure out. No matter how much data was being collected they never figured out what the Boston bombers were up to until it was too late.
To the left is a photo of an item I saw on a Caribbean Island along with a variety of 18th Century and earlier items. I never figured this item out.
It is about one inch square and a little less than half an inch thick, with an obvious round hole made in the middle.
I don't think I ever received any guesses on what it might be. There was more than one of these types of whatzits at the site.
My feeling is that maybe a rope went through the middle or that it was used something like a washer, but that is just a wild guess.
Anybody have any other ideas?
Battles took place at that particular site and there was a fort nearby right around 1800. Of course there was activity in that area hundreds of years earlier, and it could be much earlier. I don't know.
On the other hand, it might take a while but eventually some items do get identified. I feel fairly confident about the following item.
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| Pewter Find. |
See if you can guess what it is?
It was found on a Treasure Coast shipwreck beach quite a number of years ago.
It is pewter, about five inches long and 3/8 inch across and deep.
It is hollow.
What I think it is, thanks to the input from others who I am pretty sure know more about it than I, is a fork handle. The handle, according to those others, was likely filled with plaster. I think that is right.
I never would have guessed, but I have seen other similar items identified as 18th or 17th Century forks since, and they are very similar but more complete.
I can hardly believe that it was all the way back in June that I talked about the massive NSA data collection efforts and referred to George Orwell's novel, 1984. In the past few days, not only has the President decided that changes needed to be made to the NSA data collection efforts, but I've been hearing a variety of Orwellian references.
On the Treasure Coast we've been having a succession of cold fronts. Nice chilly weather, but the West winds haven't been doing anything for beach detecting conditions.
Tomorrow the surf will get up to a lofty two or three feet! Wow!
Maybe we'll get some change eventually.
A few days ago I posted some bottles that were found on the Treasure Coast and I heard from at least one fellow that was out giving bottle hunting a try.
The winter is still young and hopefully we'll get some improved detecting conditions.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
