Shipwreck wood washed up on the beach, copper plating still attached

[DocBeav]

Found this yesterday at the oceanfront. The winds had pushed ALOT of crap up onto the beach in places. Tons of sunglasses, dive masks, shoes and snorkels. There was hardly any good tgts in the mess but a few pieces of shipwreck wood were out there and I grabbed a really nice one. It is a bit smaller than one I found a few years back but constructed the same. It has square (broken) iron spikes, hand drilled holes with wooden plugs and shims in them and the copper plating held in place by brass nails. I've found plenty of the copper plating over the years but never this much still attached to the wood.

I rinsed it off and will be putting it in the plastic dog pool (sorry Emma) to soak the salt out. Once that is done I'll dry it, keep knocking the sand shells out of it, then give it some spray urethane to protect it. It will look great with the other as some nice display pieces.

 

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[stealthycat]

I know nothing about ship wrecks and ocean ... what would the age be you think on something like that? was it buried in sand and the currents/tide/winds/storms uncovered it you think then off-shore and it ended up on beach or ??

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool find! Good Luck on the preservation!

 

[DocBeav]

I know nothing about ship wrecks and ocean ... what would the age be you think on something like that? was it buried in sand and the currents/tide/winds/storms uncovered it you think then off-shore and it ended up on beach or ??

I would guess around the 1700's or possibly early 1800's. I know they used lead before copper and I have found several pieces of lead plating too.

It was washed up on the beach, pretty high up, after the nor'easter we had with all of its winds. No idea if it is a piece that was just banging around out there or if there is a wreck offshore breaking up.