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Mike Brown with his unique find July 3rd 2012
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While diving in early July 2012, Gold Hound partner/diver Mike Brown had a great week, recovering approximately 38 1715 Fleet artifacts, including a beautiful, perfectly intact silver buckle, a floral-carved silver sewing thimble, and a new first; what appears to be a solid quartz crystal carved inkwell.
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Silver buckle, sewing thimble, solid quartz inkwell found by Mike Brown in July 2012
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Mike explained that finding this “first of its type” artifact on July 3rd was nearly miraculous:
“I was diving a hole in zero visibility using my Aqua Pulse detector looking for metal artifacts. While moving around the bottom of the hole, I encountered large pieces of coquina rock that I had to move. At one point, my knee went down on what I thought was just another small rock, but when I picked it up to toss it aside, I instantly felt its smooth, square shape and knew it was something man-made. My first thought was that it had to be something modern, due to its precision shape and texture. As I headed to the surface with it, I could then see it was carved stone and something truly unique!”
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Inkwell found by Mike Brown July 3rd 2012
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While positive identification has yet to be made by an archaeologist, all evidence points to it being a “one of a kind” inkwell, which begs the question: “On who’s desk did it reside?”
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| Group of artifacts found by Mike Brown July 2012 |
