jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 23, 2022 14:47:15 GMT -5
The ships were from Europe. Ballast dumps are plentiful around barrier islands off of the Carolinas Georgia and Florida. The piles are mostly European rock ballast or rock from in-state Georgia towns like Macon and Augusta where the ships could go no further upstream. The piles are located in around Sapelo Island and Creighton Island at the coastal barrier islands. Must collect at low tide. The ballast was picked up by old Buddy Cliff whom's family has owned Creighton Island for generations. A deep water creek flanks the island allowing the ships to park close to shore to dump/add ballast. This is known as Savannah River Agate, a fossiliferous chert well known by lapidarians. The source is south of Augusta 50 miles. A 30 mile circle of chert mined heavily and heat treated(the purple piece)by Native man. So the ship had unloaded at Augusta and had to add this weight to go the 100 miles back downstream to the coast. HEAVY slag likely from England. Waste product from making steel prolly granites and quartz likely from England/Europe since some were water worn cobbles Black flint from England's chalk deposits(left), slag glass, Spanish roof tiles, waste slags, water rounded mortar(bottom), fossil death plate chunk packed with limpet shells(bottom)prolly from Europe: limpet shells recent Four ice cream store parlor chairs that were sitting in the Fanning's resident's barn for 50 years. They came from the drugstore/fountain in Crescent Georgia. Cliff's family still owns the 150 yr old family home looking out over the salt marsh to the ocean. His grandfather fished and caught shellfish, served them at the home to travellers 4 days/week:
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