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07-01-2017, 03:57 PM | #1 |
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Identification Help Needed
During 40 years of diving,I have have found many interesting things underwater; from Sunken ships to Indian stone bowls and arrowheads, but after finding and recovering these three things at different times in different places, I've never been able to definitively identify what they are. They all are solid stone of some kind, with a perfect tunnel through the middle of each, and weighing from 150 to 180 pounds each. Got any ideas?
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They all have perfectly FLAT BOTTOMS which keeps them from rolling ....
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07-01-2017, 04:28 PM | #3 |
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I have no idea. Can you give us a general idea of where they were found? Were they relatively near each other?
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Some kind of old ship ballast if truly stone. Can't imagine nature could cause such near identical shape.
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Yes, they were found within 100 yards of each other. I believe they are man made, but why drill a hole the LONG WAY, if you were just gunna tie a rope to it ?
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Ancient anchors?
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I know there are some stone ballasts off PV. There's one in the Hermosa museum. The hole could be to place on a post in a boat hull. Or just to lift them with a pole running through center. 150-180 lbs of stone could be pretty unwieldy. If they were anchors then running a line along the outside would be pretty exposed to reef cuts.
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07-03-2017, 08:01 AM | #11 |
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Ballast. A pole was put below deck running length of ship. The stones could be slid up or down the pole like a adjustable trim!
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That makes the most SENSE of any theory so far!! Thanks John!!
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An hour or 2 with something like this would drill the hole and be much more secure than a rope tied around a rock with a Grove , also they only had natural fibers then and they are harder to tie tight it would be very difficult to keep a rope on a rock without a hole
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Check it out. It might not be Chinese but Native American. Regardless, I think it is the most advanced form of its kind.
Seems like every stonesmith making these have different preference as well. http://www.peachstatearchaeologicals...-canoe-anchors This article was published 1982. http://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/03/us...in-theory.html
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