Today I left early before sunrise to detect Lewes, DE at Roosevelt Inlet with my Garrett ATpro. I arrived at the beach at low tide just as the sun was rising over Delaware Bay. After about a half hour I heard a promising target showing 55 on the target ID and dug down about 5" and found a small handle to a penknife about 2" long. It looked very old and I remembered seeing something like it in the Archaeologist report about the shipwreck at Roosevelt Inlet. When I returned home I checked the report (http://history.delaware.gov/pdfs/roosevelt/volume1.pdf) on Page 195 there were photos of some of the pistol grip style penknife handles that were recovered from the beach and shipwreck offshore. I was hoping to find some more of the Jettons I had recovered before but this identifiable artifact was a nice surprise!
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Shipwreck artifact found today
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Johnny Cache
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Cool!
bootyhoundpa
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may be from the so called-china wreck... ship was carrying mostly ironstone china ,hence the name....nice...