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Piecing together the past
Divers find they're far from first to salvage 18th century wreckage
By MOLLY MURRAY, The News Journal
Posted Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Long before beachcombers discovered thousands of fragments of broken pottery, glass and a few tiny toy soldiers on the beach near Roosevelt Inlet, the good citizens of Colonial Lewes likely salvaged wood, anchors and other items from a shipwreck just offshore.
What was left slipped below the surface, and from people's memories, until the fall of 2004, when a dredge used to pump sand onto the shoreline hit a corner of the shipwreck. It started spewing bits of German-made mineral water bottles, fragments of Dutch clay pipes and shards of British stoneware onto the beach in a slurry of sand and water. . . . . Krivor said his favorite discovery was an intact brass iron. The only thing missing, he said, was the wooden handle.The thing that made the iron so special was that two little dolphins would have held the wooden handle in place. "Every dive," he said "was something new."
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