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Post by liveoak on Mar 19, 2022 11:49:22 GMT -5
Not sure if I'm stretching the concept of human artifacts- but this is definitely a human made item & it is old & it's the first time I've ever found anything like this.
We went to the beach the other day, St Vincent NWR - our favorite beach- 7 mile long island & usually no one there.
You need a boat of some kind to get there.
Anyway, I found, in addition to some shells, some pieces of copper sheet, that had obviously been in the Gulf for a long time.
It has a patina to die for
My husband says that it's from an ancient wrecked Spanish treasure galleon- just my luck I don't find the gold treasure, just the copper hull sheathing.
But it could be just as well be from someones dock or house.
It was an interesting find though.
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 19, 2022 12:02:53 GMT -5
Very cool! I miss Florida. I spent time in Orange Park, Jax and Pensacola. Loved it. Love the Gulf best.
I wonder where the copper really came from?.....
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Post by RickB on Mar 19, 2022 14:57:15 GMT -5
Nice finds. Very cool! I miss Florida. I spent time in Orange Park, Jax and Pensacola. Loved it. Love the Gulf best. I wonder where the copper really came from?.....
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Post by brybry on Mar 19, 2022 15:13:33 GMT -5
Nice finds. Very cool! I miss Florida. I spent time in Orange Park, Jax and Pensacola. Loved it. Love the Gulf best. I wonder where the copper really came from?.....
Lol Probably roofing copper from a hurricane but Rick's idea could have merit.
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Post by liveoak on Mar 19, 2022 15:54:41 GMT -5
LOL
It's all in the imagination :-)
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Post by jasoninsd on Mar 19, 2022 17:46:43 GMT -5
I haven't been to a beach in many many years...love seeing the beach finds! I love how the shells look like butterflies when they're opened up like that! Beautiful!
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Post by liveoak on Mar 19, 2022 18:19:22 GMT -5
Those are Coquina Clams , and depending on the time of year, there are sometimes lots of shore birds that eat them in the surf.
You can watch them (the clams that is) bury themselves back into the sand as the surf goes back out.
Patty
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Post by jamesp on Mar 23, 2022 14:19:14 GMT -5
Those are Coquina Clams , and depending on the time of year, there are sometimes lots of shore birds that eat them in the surf.
You can watch them (the clams that is) bury themselves back into the sand as the surf goes back out.
Patty
My Grandmother used to hand me a colander and give me the job of screening sand on the beach to catch Coquina clams. She called them donax or periwinkles. She made sea food soup broth out of them by boiling them. The shells would sink and the meat would float to the top. The meat was tossed in with the rest of the other various meats. It has a fairly sweet flavor. That clam has to have more colors that nay shell on earth. Some solid colored, some with the sunburst pattern. Easy catchings during the right season, when the wave retreats there would be hundreds of them. Copper sheeting is often clad to the bottom of boats to repel barnacles. One possible source...
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 23, 2022 14:25:43 GMT -5
Those are Coquina Clams , and depending on the time of year, there are sometimes lots of shore birds that eat them in the surf.
You can watch them (the clams that is) bury themselves back into the sand as the surf goes back out.
Patty
My Grandmother used to hand me a colander and give me the job of screening sand on the beach to catch Coquina clams. She called them donax or periwinkles. She made sea food soup broth out of them by boiling them. The shells would sink and the meat would float to the top. The meat was tossed in with the rest of the other various meats. It has a fairly sweet flavor. That clam has to have more colors that nay shell on earth. Some solid colored, some with the sunburst pattern. Easy catchings during the right season, when the wave retreats there would be hundreds of them. Copper sheeting is often clad to the bottom of boats to repel barnacles. One possible source...
Thank you for sharing that.
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Post by liveoak on Mar 23, 2022 16:06:47 GMT -5
It would take a LOT of Coquina clams to make a meal that's for sure.
Makes me think of harvesting mussels off the rocks on a Rhode Island beach some years ago & filling up our backpack.
We had many meals of them.
I think I'll stick with the mussels- more worth the effort , but then you were just a kid following directions
Hull sheathing of the Spanish treasure ships- Absolutely !
Now we just need to find the gold
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