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| 700-Year-Old Ring Found in Garden. Source: SeeTimesOfIsrael link below. |
A Galilee gardener dug up a 700-year-old bronze ring which bears the image of St Nicholas, the patron saint of pilgrims.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/galilee-gardener-digs-up-medieval-ring-bearing-smiling-st-nicholas/
A lot of interesting discoveries are made in gardens.
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Now, in the dense rainforest on a remote part of Kruzof Island, archaeologists have finally identified the campsite used by those who survived the wreck of the Neva, an ill-fated ship that was once an important vessel in the Russian navy.
When the Neva wrecked in January 1813, 54 years before the Alaska purchase, 32 people perished and 28 made it to shore, where they camped in midwinter conditions. Two of those in the camp died, but the other 26 were rescued after about three weeks.
The exact location of the wrecked ship and the survivors' camp was a longtime mystery — until now. An archaeological expedition confirmed that an ocean-facing site of Kruzof Island was where the Neva wrecked and where the survivors held out until their rescue.
"The Neva's one of those sagas that's almost legendary in Alaska and folks have been looking for it for 200 years," said Dave McMahan, a former Alaska state archaeologist and the chief investigator on the National Science Foundation-funded expedition.
Here is the link for more of that article.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2017/03/04/archaeologists-say-theyve-found-the-campsite-used-by-survivors-of-legendary-doomed-ship-the-neva/
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Gaylen C. asked one day about any 1715 Fleet burials that anyone might know about. I've mentioned one or two things sent by readers but haven't heard much about that. Here is what Gaylen said he learned about that.
Regarding my curiosities about the burial of the 1715 fleet dead, I found in chapter 5 of Florida's Golden Galleons, by Burgess and Clausen, a statement by Admiral Salmon that almost immediately some of the surviving seamen, and "lower class passengers" were seen looting the dead bodies on the beaches. No doubt some of the bodies of wealthier passengers, and opportunistic sailors, possessed coin and artifacts of great value. That could account for no burial type of artifacts found " At daybreak the beach was strewn with wreckage and bodies. Other bodies tumbled grotesquely in the waves........The bodies were laid in rows below the dunes and covered with torn sails.....In the first few hours after the worst of the storm had passed, they were unable to do much more than care for their injured and bury their dead, scratching shallow graves in the white sand to be blessed as a matter of course by surviving priests." Later that evening they suffered another violent storm which appearantly washed away much of the provisions that they had been able to drag up on the beaches, and most likely any who were buried in a shallow beach sand grave. Still leaves the question of what happened to those who died later. If they have not been found already perhaps they will be one day.
I have some thoughts on that too, but I don't have any evidence and don't want to say what I think might have happened until I give everybody else a chance to offer their thoughts or findings.
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The big bump in the surf has been moved a day closer. It is now predicted to start on Sunday.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed. com |
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