types of ballast stones--point of origin / areas where ship was at

[ivan salis]

recently found a wreck site on the ocean near a beach area--the "wreck" is quite close to shore---there are numerous smallish round stones (looks like roundish chunks of coral) of various sizes (from fist sized to bowling ball size --although the small size is much more common) strewn about on the beach area---at what point did the practice of using rocks for ballest fade out? and I think by proving where the rock/coral came from would help ID the ship as there are several possible differant wrecks from differant time eras in this area. any thoughts on this? Ivan

 

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[Jason in TN]

Pictures if you have them would give us a better Idea as to what we are dealing with.