More from shipwreck area !

[Whydah]

Went back to the area that held the bones from an old shipwreck today. Here is a picture of the Keel...Started finding quite a few more modern coins... I'd say in about a 2 1/2 hour time I plucked about 100 coins... Quite a few were Wheaties... NO silver, very odd.... Found a few more funny looking lead weights and only 2 musket balls and 1 pistol shot... I did get a nice small Heraldic Eagle pin... and some fine china from the same area that the bottle came from yesterday....Also got a few more buttons and a shoe from that time period... The leather is still in pretty good shape for an oldie... Thanks for looking...

 

[Erik in NJ]

Nice......where's the shoe?

 

[birdman]

That is good times right there!

 

[capt-zero]

Nothing like a shipwreck all your own. Any idea of the time frame of the wreck?

 

[Whydah]

Nice......where's the shoe?

I have the shoe soaking, I will post it in the morning... Its in a couple of pieces but still cool to look at...

 

[PeteWmass]

those coffee cups are not old at all.....last 30 years.....

 

[Whydah]

those coffee cups are not old at all.....last 30 years.....

Thanks Pete, I knew that... They just happened to be in the area of the wreck... there is glass shards all over the area... A restaurant close by too... I think they came from there...

 

[19cbb]

Keep diggin'
Love the eagle pin!

 

[Michiganne]

Wow, that looks like fun. Neat pile of relics. Good luck on future hunts!

HH

 

[eagleforce]

Nice spot you got there! Keep up the cool finds!

 

[frogginfish]

That is an amazing score!

 

[Tnmountains]

Looks like a whole lot of fun to me. Some interesting items in there. Good luck!

 

[TNGUNS]

About the closest thing to a shipwreck around here would be a sunken jon boat on a farmers pond. Ha ha.
Just kidding. There are several wrecks on the TN river near me but no real shoreline to hunt. The dam system put in by TVA decades ago has everything a bit deeper than it used to be when all is at normal level. Really dangerous to dive so most of them just sit there buried in the silt. Did find reference to a paddle wheeler lost in the 1850's very near a ferry in a little town I have been hunting.....Does make ya wonder what all was on it.

Those are some really cool finds......lots of history around your big pond.

 

[CoilyGirl]

You are a rave soul to be out there in the elements in. Massachusetts this time of year but I see by your finds its well worth it.what are the objects on the far right that are shaped like powder flasks?Sinkers?

 

[Whydah]

You are a rave soul to be out there in the elements in. Massachusetts this time of year but I see by your finds its well worth it.what are the objects on the far right that are shaped like powder flasks? Sinkers?

Those items are lead, they were used to check the depth as the ship went close to sand bars or shoals... (depth finders) they were used to figure speed also (Knots)... Thanks for asking...

 

[Clay Slayer]

Those items are lead, they were used to check the depth as the ship went close to sand bars or shoals... (depth finders) they were used to figure speed also (Knots)... Thanks for asking...

Are those plummets (lead weights) hollowed out at the bottom? I know in the south on the 19th century river paddlewheel steamers the leadsmen(guys who did the actual sounding) used plummets that were hollowed out at the bottom. These hollow cavities were filled with tallow(kinda like Crisco) so when the plummet hit the bottom not only did the leadsman get a depth measurement, but also a sample of the riverbed...sand, gravel, mud, etc. I'm guessing this was probably a common practice everywhere.

 

[steelheadwill]

That could be a very rich site you found !!
Check those large leads for a dished bottom, 'sounding weights' would have an indentation to be packed with grease that would grab a sample of what the seafloor was composed of, and are usually quite large.
You may have the site of a lifetime there !!
one of my best sites was the ballast pile from a long disintegrated hulk,
over a period of time it yielded hundreds of military buttons, coins and relics- 1800-1830,
was likely a military transport, also used for fishing as hundreds of those longline jigs were also recovered.
(lower left in your photo).
stuff can be deep and widely scattered, a lot from mine had migrated seaward from the actual pile.
It travelled to southern ports as there were several brain corals in the pile.

Best wishes! And Dig Deep

showing a couple similar items to yours, and jigmold info, sometimes they were just cast in rolled paper...

 

[steelheadwill]

Clayslayer & I were typing at the same time
If there is a hole thru the side to the bottom of those leads they are likely older
fishing weights, I have them up to 26 oz in that style....

 

[John Boy]

Great job buddy.keep up the good work.sweet!!!

 

[boris]

Have you seen Sandwich beach near the old glass factory? The rocks are quite unique. Sandy Neck? Hyannis? Myles Stadish?