Blak bart
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Well let me say that this trip is really about 3 of us here at t-net and another mutal Bahamian friend !! Myself, @SADS 669 , @Magoopeter and our Bahamian friends!! These guys are great and we all met here at t-net !! I always fish on this far out Bahamian island, and sads and I have had quite a few adventures over the years !! Well this one was no different...except I came to explore only and had no other obligations to fishing or work...a vacation!! The trip was a complete success!! And although @Magoopeter couldn't make it in person he pitched in with ideas research, and theories as to what we were discovering. But the first day was a disaster....flight canceled!! And hotel for the night .... gonna miss a day already. We'll lemon to lemonade!! Free room at "Breezes resort" cable beach Bahamas 🇧🇸!! Guess what happened that night at sunset detecting cable beach ..... RING RETURN !! to a newly Wed couple !! Married on Monday, lost ring on Wednesday, and I returned ring on Saturday !! Wooo hooo !!
Not only that, the first ring I found, was not there's!! So after after a few minutes of shock I started again, and first target was it !! Here's the first ring I found
Both rings were heavy tungsten!!
So after another half day flying I hit the ground running and never looked back until 4 days later !! Wooo hooo it was killer. Pirate shipwreck beach, plantation with slave whipping post site, old 18th century possibly 17th century church site, and mystery plantation site with lost tomb !! Over the years sads and I have had some adventures but this on was great 4 days with sads and our Bahamian friends!!
Suspender clip, 1 reale 1732...I think 🤔 perhaps others see something or know more than I about this 1 reale...I see
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Either way we used a backhoe from a nearby sand mining operation to move some big boulders , and sure enough in the loose disturbed sand up comes the pirate reale from a site that has produced others for us....especially if you know me here at t-net !! We scrambled through the bush the next day at the slave whipping post site and got a silver spoon bowl, a spent musket ball, a very unique mystery lead object, slave flat button, broken 1700s bottle top, and many many colorful pottery fragments it took sads and our Bahamian friends hours to hack our way into these still standing ruins isolated in thick Bahamian bush !!
thats a chimney peaking up there
At the church site things date way back and it's absolutely incredible site with standing bell tower , and even some rafters left .... it dates to 1600s Spanish occupation, and I got a bronze tudor rose church door ornament....just a killer find right buy the rectory entrance steps !! Then I found some curch window glass stii sitting in the dirt just under one opening!!
Just mid blowing little pieces of history that give us a glimpse of the opulence of a Spanish colonial church ⛪️ I'll make a shadow box of artifacts from this site and return with it for the local museum. The one reale I'll mount in gold for my Bahamian friend made from freshly dropped gold rings I've found this summer !!I'll take you guys along for the coin transformation in this thread as it goes....starting to clean it now. The chips of pottery and shards of glass will be made into art In The form of a framed mosaic. There's plenty more stuff to share from this trip, but I'll have to see if I can grab some frames from video to show you guys.
I'll take some better cross side photos and edit them in also !! Really happy with the details with this killer pirate Cobb....can't wait to get it mounted !! Thanks for peaking folks !!🫡🫡
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Baking soda rub and that's it....buff with clean rag, and a little wax !!
Not only that, the first ring I found, was not there's!! So after after a few minutes of shock I started again, and first target was it !! Here's the first ring I found
Both rings were heavy tungsten!!
So after another half day flying I hit the ground running and never looked back until 4 days later !! Wooo hooo it was killer. Pirate shipwreck beach, plantation with slave whipping post site, old 18th century possibly 17th century church site, and mystery plantation site with lost tomb !! Over the years sads and I have had some adventures but this on was great 4 days with sads and our Bahamian friends!!
Suspender clip, 1 reale 1732...I think 🤔 perhaps others see something or know more than I about this 1 reale...I see
SVL
TR
732
Either way we used a backhoe from a nearby sand mining operation to move some big boulders , and sure enough in the loose disturbed sand up comes the pirate reale from a site that has produced others for us....especially if you know me here at t-net !! We scrambled through the bush the next day at the slave whipping post site and got a silver spoon bowl, a spent musket ball, a very unique mystery lead object, slave flat button, broken 1700s bottle top, and many many colorful pottery fragments it took sads and our Bahamian friends hours to hack our way into these still standing ruins isolated in thick Bahamian bush !!
At the church site things date way back and it's absolutely incredible site with standing bell tower , and even some rafters left .... it dates to 1600s Spanish occupation, and I got a bronze tudor rose church door ornament....just a killer find right buy the rectory entrance steps !! Then I found some curch window glass stii sitting in the dirt just under one opening!!
Just mid blowing little pieces of history that give us a glimpse of the opulence of a Spanish colonial church ⛪️ I'll make a shadow box of artifacts from this site and return with it for the local museum. The one reale I'll mount in gold for my Bahamian friend made from freshly dropped gold rings I've found this summer !!I'll take you guys along for the coin transformation in this thread as it goes....starting to clean it now. The chips of pottery and shards of glass will be made into art In The form of a framed mosaic. There's plenty more stuff to share from this trip, but I'll have to see if I can grab some frames from video to show you guys.
I'll take some better cross side photos and edit them in also !! Really happy with the details with this killer pirate Cobb....can't wait to get it mounted !! Thanks for peaking folks !!🫡🫡
Baking soda rub and that's it....buff with clean rag, and a little wax !!
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So amazing seeing your excitement on this trip. Your such an inspiration to us all. Living out your dreams 
