Florida Greenbrier

antmike915

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

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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.
 

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antmike915

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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.
 

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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?
 

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antmike915

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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.
 

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