Hey there everyone I found this anchor while diving the other day. I found this anchor in the middle of sand with no natural reef or bottom witching thousands of feet of it. I grew up treasuring hunting and shipwreck diving. So a couple of questions, any idea of what era it may be from? It’s...
Found my first arrowhead today in northwest Florida! Been looking and digging test holes on our property for a while and have only found a few flakes and broken pieces until now. This one was barely covered with dirt. The field has been plowed and cultivated in the past. It has a broken tip, but...
I drove back up to the treasure coast on Thursday, stayed the night, and metal detected over 10 miles of beach between the two days. I found most of the same, rusted fragments of metal and random junk like fishing lures and even a portion of a dresser drawer a foot deep in the sand, but I did...
Found this on the banks of a large cypress pond/swamp in the Florida panhandle. It is not metal! Any help in identifying what it is would be very much appreciated.
Anyone out there familiar with the bricks that the Forts made on location apparently (as their requests for bricks from up North were denied) and what to look for etc?
There are two locations were I have personally seen these bricks and at Fort King they have almost identical on display that...
Any Seminole War time period hunters in Florida and/or historians etc.
I have been doing a lot and a lot of research on this topic kicked off by finds mostly.
While there is a lot of info, it typically leads to MORE questions than answers. Finding old clay fired bricks in unusual locations...
Some various finds today at an 1890's era town site in Central Florida. The suspender looking piece made it all worth while, not sure on the other stuff so much. The shard with appears to have some kind of art on it did ring up as metal. The round shaped "ring" thing had a small hole at the top...