6/14/12 Report - Brass Steamship Artifact(?) & Ship Artifacts Pumped Onto a Beach

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Brass or Bronze Artifact Metal Detector Find

 
Here is a  brass, or roughly cast bronze, artifact found by James F. up around the St. Johns River. He thinks it might be a cleat and ring off a early steamboat.  The area is also where Seminole War battles were fought. 



Notice the maker's mark