1715 find or junk?

[PBBill]

First let me say thank you to everyone that has posted before. I am new to metal detecting and I spent several weeks going back to the old posts and gained a wealth of knowledge. I ended up choosing a Whites prizm 3 just to make sure this is something I want to do. Spent the last several days checking out the beaches on the treasure coast here in Florida. I did scoop this out from a bunch of shells in about a foot of water almost directly in front of one of the 1715 wrecks. It is not magnetic. It is not plyable i.e. not aluminum or tin. it marks under the icon for z1c, bottle cap, or gold ring. Anyhow mostly wanted to say thanks to all the members for the wealth of info on this site. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Bill

 

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[spritch]

I agree I think it is a melted blob from the space program, not necessarily the challenger. There are lot sof space junk off shore. I also found some and took it to the museum at Sebastion. He indicated that it was probably titanium (not aluminum) from the space program. Aluminum is very soft. The stuff I found wasn't.

Stuart

 

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[inletsurf]

I found several pieces like that just south of the Cabin wreck, in close proximity to where an old beach campfire was. Like the others, I suspect it to be molten aluminum cans.