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[eseaton]

While on vacation last week, I got a little time to do some beach hunting. I ran across a signal with my CZ-6A Fisher that read penny high coin signal sporatically. I eventually got through several thick layers of shells and dug this out at 14 inches. Looks to be solid copper. I just wondered how this got washed up on a beach. It weighs two pounds and is 6 inches across. I found it on Pass-a-Grill beach just south of Clearwater on an inland waterway.

eseaton

 

[JohnnyI]

Port holes and porthole covers are neat finds. A bronze porthole cover like this one opened inward, so it is unlikely that it just fell off. It's more likely that it was from a wooden boat that disintigrated in a hurricane, or over time. Hard to say how it got on the beach. Fragments of the cabin or the boat itself could have been beached in a storm. It could have been dredged up to clear the channel. As you mentioned, it was under a thick layer of shells, so it possible that the current was strong enough to carry it up along with the shells, providing it had a piece of wood to buoy it, or it had its glass in place to give it a surface against the water.

 

[eseaton]

The glass is in place. Do you feel it is bronze as opposed to copper?

eseaton

 

[JohnnyI]

Most boat fittings are bronze. Bronze has the reddish look of copper, but it is not copper. it's great that it has the glass.

 

[eseaton]

n/t

 

[GoGoGopher]

[size=large]Very Neat find, and to have the glass intact makes it even better..

Happy Hunting,[/size]