Florida Greenbrier

[antmike915]

Found this one about 5 feet deep with my shovel in compacted sugar sand in Hillsborough County Florida. Pretty thin for the type.

 

[newnan man]

Nice!

 

[antmike915]

Nice!

Thanks Newnan

 

[sandchip]

Danged nice find.

 

[antmike915]

Danged nice find.

Thanks sand

 

[MAMucker]

Nice find! 5 feet deep, you say? That’s a lot of work. I’ve seen artifact diggers on Youtube skinning sand with a shovel off the face of a vertical wall inch by inch.

 

[antmike915]

Nice find! 5 feet deep, you say? That’s a lot of work. I’ve seen artifact diggers on Youtube skinning sand with a shovel off the face of a vertical wall inch by inch.

That was a hole that took hours, that Florida sand I had to scrape like ice.

 

[Fat]

Another beauty.
How did you decide X marks the spot?
The sand gets packed tight from storm surges?
Is that a piece that would soak up some oil?

 

[antmike915]

Another beauty.
How did you decide X marks the spot?
The sand gets packed tight from storm surges?
Is that a piece that would soak up some oil?

It's translucent if soaked in oil but I like it better in natural state. Florida sand is weird, alot of the times it's dry compacted and if I got lucky it would be damp compacted (usually in old sink holes) if that makes any sense.