April 4, 2009: Blackbeard's Booty

[xoxoxoBruce]

Don't bother calling, it's not that kind of booty.
Blackbeard, you know Edward Thatch/Teach, around 1700, pirate, Arrrrrr?
Well it's not really booty because that's treasure, this is more like Blackbeard's stuff.

A brass navigational instrument known as a chart divider is among artifacts recently recovered from a shipwreck thought to be the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the infamous 18th-century pirate Blackbeard, archaeologists said in March 2009.

Underwater archaeologists from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources have been excavating the wreck—which lies 22 feet (7 meters) underwater a few miles off Beaufort, North Carolina—since 1997.

The stuff's in pretty good shape for bring on the ocean floor for 300 years.
The corrosion on the piece of silver is easily removed.
All that gold would fit in a thimble, and since it was found mixed in with some lead, scientists speculate someone hid it in the ammo locker.

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