May 20 2008
The Florida Key’s Ain’t Done Yielding Treasure!
Just when you think all the good stuff has been found, the Florida Key’s prove you wrong!
Shaun and I are really itchin’ to plan a trip south to the Key’s, and the article we read today gives us hope that something might be left. Hopefully we can get our Excalibur II’s and get certified to dive by the end of the summer.
Enough about us. Here’s the article.
- Adam in St. Cloud
“An archaeologist and treasure-hunting divers found a never-before-seen gold artifact likely from a Spanish galleon that sank in a hurricane in the 1600s. They were searching the shipwreck trail of the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita that sank in 1622″ when they found a unique and special little grooming device.
“The treasure, believed to be an intricate grooming tool made with gold and earwax, was found 40 miles off Key West.
“It’s a grooming tool, composed of toothpick and a small spoon for earwax, made of almost pure gold,” Dr. Duncan Mathewson said. “It’s very, very unique. Ah, we’ve never seen anything like it before.”
They also found several skeleton keys, ceramic pieces and rigging elements of the ship.”
This find comes on the heels of gold bars and a lead box containing thousands of pearls that was also carried by the Santa Margarita. The Santa Margarita became famous 25 years ago when Mel Fisher began his initial search of the shipwreck. Divers for his team and many others have been finding valuable treasures off the Florida coast ever since!
Visit Local 6 News for updates about the artifacts found from the Santa Margarita.
DumpDiggers just posted about Canada’s foremost metal detector retailer, Albert Anderson of Golden Treasure Metal Detectors. He’s a swell guy that sells only the best stuff - he could use some media attention.
I love reading about the Spanish treasures found in Florida, and if I can land a decent job down there I’d go in a heartbeat just to be able to metal detect the surf and beaches for a piece of eight or escudo.
One of these days!
Mike
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