Sandy Point gives up some treasure!

[Au_Dreamers]

Rumors have it a really nice gold "friendship" ring was brought up from Sandy Point by one of the salvage crews!

[mad4wrecks]

That is great news. It is nice to know that someone is working that site-do you know who? Sandy Point has always held interest for me. The wreck is a bit of a mystery isn't it? All I got from it was a deck spike and lots of WWII shells and casings. I have talked in depth with Jim Sinclair, who did a survey and report on the site, and there is so much more there-somewhere.

[Au_Dreamers]

mad4wrecks,
Yeah it sure is a mystery and one that has had my interest for years!!
It's on my list of must explore more!

I heard the ring was found by some boat called The Endeavor

[FISHEYE]

I think that is John Brandons boat.

[Au_Dreamers]

I think that is John Brandons boat.

humor doesn't always work on the net - yes the Endeavor is John Brandon's boat

[Booty Salvage]

Yes. That was another incredible find by John Brandon.

That was only the 4th piece of gold found on "Sandy Point"

I have seen and held the piece and its detail is amazing; it looks similar to other friendship style bracelets that have been found on the 1715 fleet.

[aloysiusinfla]

Apparently no one has found a "ballast pile", so the state desk jockeys assume there's no wreck. Having lived in Savannah, all of River street is paved/built with ballaststones. The ballast was unloaded and replaced with cargo. After sitting for over a decade in Havana, I'll bet there was very little need for ballast in some of those ships.

Don't forget ballast stones have been found far inland. A rock like this would have been a rare treasure to a Florida indian, for use as a tool of some kind...we don't have rocks in Florida. Maybe they salvaged some/all of them?

[centfladigger]

Apparently no one has found a "ballast pile", so the state desk jockeys assume there's no wreck. Having lived in Savannah, all of River street is paved/built with ballaststones. The ballast was unloaded and replaced with cargo. After sitting for over a decade in Havana, I'll bet there was very little need for ballast in some of those ships.

Don't forget ballast stones have been found far inland. A rock like this would have been a rare treasure to a Florida indian, for use as a tool of some kind...we don't have rocks in Florida. Maybe they salvaged some/all of them?

not trying to hijack the thread but we are LOADED with coral and local cherts here in Fl. I have 10 tons of it my back property from over 25 years of digging and diving for artifacts. Our rocks stop south of the Tampa area, but from here and up towards Ga. its loaded with cherts or coastal plains cherts, coral is only found in a few counties

[RELICDUDE07]

I like it!!!!

[SEAHUNTER]

we don't have rocks in Florida

In Jupiter we have several places where there are natural rock formations. Lots on the beach and I have seen some on the intracoastal that are more than twenty feet tall. Underwater there is rock everywhere.

[aloysiusinfla]

Other than the cherts, most Florida "rock" is some kind of sedimentary deposit. Ballast stones..they're usually round river rocks..round from erosion. They're also harder than most Florida stuff.

BTW, I've gotta ballast stone that washed up on one of our beaches..it's reddish.

[Salvor6]

Florida rocks are mainly limestone. There are limestone quarries in Hudson and Aripeka that they use for road beds.

[centfladigger]

yes there are alot of limestone quarries but there is alot of chert formations in this. In Brooksville there is a huge depsosit of the Ocala chert formation stuff, its kind of grainy but cooks good and knaps ok. lots of artifacts made from it. Florida is an awesome place for the cherts and corals, just not alot of different agates and jaspers like other states, but we do have some. There is alot of English flints that were used for ballast stone but most rivers have a good deposit of a compressed algea that the indians and the flint knappers today loves, flakes good needs no heat and found pretty easy