Thoughts on this find.

[Stifeout]

So I finally got out and photographed the slabs that are around the rocks where I found the wooden beam.
These are large, some 15 ' long. I walked about half a mile, still I saw these slabs with the cuts in them.

I have lifted tile in my house and while sliding a long pry bar underneath, I could break free huge areas of tile...Several men with long bars could do this with this material. That's my guess..

 

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[ARC]

Very interesting... thanks for posting ... never seen markings like that before

 

[Sandog]

So I finally got out and photographed the slabs that are around the rocks where I found the wooden beam.
These are large, some 15 ' long. I walked about half a mile, still I saw these slabs with the cuts in them.

I have lifted tile in my house and while sliding a long pry bar underneath, I could break free huge areas of tile...Several men with long bars could do this with this material. That's my guess..View attachment 2044470View attachment 2044471View attachment 2044472

That's intriguing. Couldn't zoom in too well on the photos, so I have to ask if they appear to you to be solid rock with cuts inscribed, or individual small blocks joined by mortar. That's a great discovery either way. Looking forward to this thread's progress.

 

[Stifeout]

That's intriguing. Couldn't zoom in too well on the photos, so I have to ask if they appear to you to be solid rock with cuts inscribed, or individual small blocks joined by mortar. That's a great discovery either way. Looking forward to this thread's progress.

Good morning sandog
They are solid rock. Large slabs. I almost can imagine a seabed that when exposed was worked over by hammering 6 foot pry bars parallel to each other at a downward shallow angle. My poor analogy of lifting an area of old kitchen tiles. What's left underneath are these marks. These were definitely never individual pieces of a former structure.

This site was used as an area for procuring raw material to build something.... Maybe Castillo San Marcos. Or Fort matanzas. I am going to both those locations this weekend. I have a nice sample and f it. I want to see how it compares to the other locations.
I am starting to think I stumbled onto something significant pertaining to St Augustine's history

I'll take some better pictures of

 

[Sandog]

Are you thinking that this could be a site for harvesting building blocks? How big would you say a squared section is? That would indeed be an amazing find. Good luck in your investigations.

 

[Stifeout]

Are you thinking that this could be a site for harvesting building blocks? How big would you say a squared section is? That would indeed be an amazing find. Good luck in your investigations.

HI Sandog
Man, not sure at the moment... I would say that it was used as a possible site for raw material for building. Maybe to bring up large then cut/shape and them.

I haven't been back yet, but the smallest slabs 10 feet x 10 feet. The majority is beneath the sand with exposed areas. Most of it, except what is around the wood beam is flat. I also found this interesting.

I am going there this afternoon at low tide.
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