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looks like the bottom plate of a boat skeg, maybe.
I haven't seen myself but I would guess keel ballast for a sailing vessel.
Stone cannonballs eye fitness on the Atocha and the DeLuna wrecks in Pensacola Bay. The Pensacola expedition was 1559 I believe.
Were the two find associated with each other?
Stone cannonballs eye fitness on the Atocha and the DeLuna wrecks in Pensacola Bay. The Pensacola expedition was 1559 I believe.
Were the two find associated with each other?
lermontov
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does the lead have nay marking on it that would indicate it was poured insitu i e bottom of a keel or hull
Quite possible.
There's a hole on both ends, like large pins were used to hold it in place, did old sailing ships use lead ballast inside?
lermontov
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lead boat ballast I lean towards ballast- it is usually removable to offset cargo loads and its crucial to hold it in place -a shifting ballast has been the demise of many a ship
looks very like ballast, found it on a shore dive in 30 feet. I'll definitely go back for another look. Thanks
clownfishsydney
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When I first started diving 34 years ago, I was perplexed by the number of house bricks I found well away from the shore. Finally I figured it out, people were putting bricks inside fish/carb/cray traps as ballast and these were lost ones, the wire cage having rusted away. Perhaps something like that?
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