1900 century Butt Plug recovered

[Zodiacdiverdave]

Well, really it is a cannon barrel plug with the broad arrow on it as well as some letters which I cannot make out entirely yet.
All in all my buddies John, Dana and Steve and I had a good harbour grub dive today. I recovered the barrel plug and a little medicine bottle, John got a nice caulking mallet head from the days of wooden ships and iron men and a bunch of clay pipes and ink wells. Steve got a few bottles and and beautiful ointment jar lid. Dana, well Dana got skunked.
ZDD

[stevemc]

The broad arrow head mark means its British. Nice finds! Nice pipes and bottles.

[Zodiacdiverdave]

Thanks Steve, the ointment pot lid that my Buddy Steve found is a Holloway's circa 1840. This was the earliest know lid from this manufacturer.
http://www.ointmentpots.com/victorian/holloways
ZDD

[piratediver]

ZDD: nice stuff, we do most of our bottle diving here in the winter also, too much boat traffic in the warmer months. What is the water temp where you are diving now? Here in Newport it is right around 40 F. and usually bottoms out at about 30 F. depending on the severity of the winter.

Pirate Diver

[Zodiacdiverdave]

ZDD: nice stuff, we do most of our bottle diving here in the winter also, too much boat traffic in the warmer months. What is the water temp where you are diving now? Here in Newport it is right around 40 F. and usually bottoms out at about 30 F. depending on the severity of the winter.

Pirate Diver

Our water is still around 50F right now but it will drop to around 30 by late winter. One year it was 26 at the surface and very slushy to around 4ft. That was a cold dive let me tell you.
Are you diving in the harbours and bay's or more open spots?
ZDD

[piratediver]

We do harbors and rivers now that are too filled with boats in the warmer months. Our water is usually much clearer now also so that is the trade off.


Dive safe,

Pirate Diver