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sat/sun dives - 6/8/2008 3:38:34 PM    bonesbda   Posts: 103 Joined: 2/1/2006 Status: offline good days diving: 2x 1820 porters, 2x 1820 cylinders, 4x codd bottles, 50+ musket balls, 1 small codd/torpedo hybrid, eno's fruit salt + top, 2 inks., tea cup with british crest, brass sword tip, small brass pic,small clay pot. best find was half sized late mallet / early porter(far left in pic) Attachment (1) < Message edited by bonesbda -- 6/8/2008 3:40:25 PM > Post #: 1

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/8/2008 5:29:00 PM    beendiggin Posts: 789 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: online Nice...did you metal detect for the musket balls? (in reply to bonesbda) Post #: 2

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/8/2008 5:37:15 PM    bonesbda   Posts: 103 Joined: 2/1/2006 Status: offline nope....one spot i go...just fan the sand and they appear. (in reply to beendiggin) Post #: 3

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/8/2008 6:53:53 PM    beendiggin Posts: 789 Joined: 6/30/2005 Status: online I love it when you can keep going back for more. Way to go. (in reply to bonesbda) Post #: 4

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/8/2008 7:21:10 PM    Digswithstick Posts: 555 Joined: 3/6/2008 From: north west pa Status: offline Hi ,nice finds and all you had to do is fan the sand that must be great ,Dws _____________________________ Digswithstick (in reply to bonesbda) Post #: 5

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/8/2008 7:32:56 PM    downeastdigger Posts: 1404 Joined: 8/22/2005 From: Crawling through the mud and briars of Eliot Maine Status: offline Are you diving US or UK?  Either way, must have been a blast. _____________________________ Bram Get busy diggin, or get busy dyin' http://www.GreatBayCatering.com (in reply to Digswithstick) Post #: 6

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/8/2008 8:30:56 PM    madman   Posts: 4860 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline  K I L L E R !  i love this place mike (in reply to downeastdigger) Post #: 7

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/8/2008 9:23:47 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3668 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: online Did you ever un cover any cannon balls? _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to bonesbda) Post #: 8

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/9/2008 5:47:30 AM    TROG   Posts: 262 Joined: 9/27/2004 From: South Australia Status: offline Hi, Great lot of finds and looks like they are all English in origin.What names are on the Codds and Hybrid. Also the broken Blue Hamilton would have been a fantastic find if complete(is it Named) David _____________________________ AMERICAN POT LIDS WANTED (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 9

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/9/2008 5:13:12 PM    bonesbda   Posts: 103 Joined: 2/1/2006 Status: offline it does keep things interesting... always good to find more....more...more i say.. (in reply to Digswithstick) Post #: 10

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/9/2008 5:15:34 PM    bonesbda   Posts: 103 Joined: 2/1/2006 Status: offline yup...they do turn up...i know of at least 5 cannon balls i've left. just leave them behind due to weight..and no market for them..too much work to get em back. (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 11

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/9/2008 5:18:51 PM    bonesbda   Posts: 103 Joined: 2/1/2006 Status: offline i mainly find english bottles as bermuda is a colony of G/B. the blue hamilton was a codd....dan rylands.  2nd broken one i've found in that spot...i found an intact one somewhere else... the hybrid is the typical niagra version,  the other codds were bermudian named ones. (in reply to TROG) Post #: 12

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/10/2008 7:14:11 AM    TROG   Posts: 262 Joined: 9/27/2004 From: South Australia Status: offline Hi . Would love to see a photo of the complete blue hybrid (hamilton codd) quote: ORIGINAL: bonesbda i mainly find english bottles as bermuda is a colony of G/B. the blue hamilton was a codd....dan rylands.  2nd broken one i've found in that spot...i found an intact one somewhere else... _____________________________ AMERICAN POT LIDS WANTED (in reply to bonesbda) Post #: 13

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/10/2008 3:33:52 PM    RedGinger   Posts: 992 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline Great pic!  Is there ever a danger with the musket balls?  If you did find a cannon ball as Rick asked, would that be dangerous to take home? _____________________________ [link] [/link] (in reply to bonesbda) Post #: 14

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/10/2008 7:18:22 PM    bonesbda   Posts: 103 Joined: 2/1/2006 Status: offline unfortunately i traded it a few years ago... still looking for another intact one (in reply to TROG) Post #: 15

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/10/2008 7:21:02 PM    bonesbda   Posts: 103 Joined: 2/1/2006 Status: offline i've never had an issue with musket balls..unless we're talking lead poisoning...lol all the cannon balls i've found seem to be of the solid iron variety...so no chance of explosions. (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 16

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/10/2008 7:21:53 PM    adshepard   Posts: 201 Joined: 8/11/2004 Status: offline Great stuff! I'll be back in the water diving for bottles in a couple of weeks off Eastport, Maine.  Just a tad bit cooler water than in Bermuda at a chilly 46f right now but it'll reach 52f by the end of September.  Alan (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 17

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/10/2008 7:29:22 PM    bonesbda   Posts: 103 Joined: 2/1/2006 Status: offline it's currently 76.5 F right now... in winter it drops down to .....60F !!!!!   chilly by my standards.. (in reply to adshepard) Post #: 18

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/10/2008 7:55:46 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3668 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: online What he is saying Red Is that musket balls are solid, they do not have any type of black powder in them.They are like bullets of today..lead _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 19

RE: sat/sun dives - 6/10/2008 10:11:48 PM    GACDIG   Posts: 231 Joined: 9/10/2006 From: Concord NC. Status: offline Good dives, is the sea hard to get off the bottles.??? _____________________________ Glenn YOU DIG IT ! http://www.geocities.com/gac3336/bottledigger.html (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 20

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