An eight-year-old having a Metal detector He discovered almost two-day old shipwreck in Ontario, Canada.
During the family trip to the provincial park in the province near Goderich in 2023, Lucas Athchison, now 10, they found a small Steel Spike With his metal detector, a birthday gift and decided to dig on.
Spike was found attached to a piece of woodWhich in turn had a few more spikes on it.
Further inspection revealed that spikes and wood were part of the entire destroyed ship.
Boy and his family reported the discovery of the park staff and the volunteer group called Ontario The Board of the Heritage Marine reported the news about the CBC.
The archaeologists found the ship was probably an old Spanish, a kind of double-headed tree, a wooden sailboat. He had double frames, hinting that he was a stronger ship for the transport of goods.
However, the exact identity of the ship remains unclear.
Researchers now make drawings shipwreck from different angles to identify the vessel. They also evaluate catalogs from the 19th century in the details of insurance requirements for ships.
Because such requirements included the number of fasteners or spikes, that the frameworks of each type of ship must have, checking catalogs can help identify the type of ship.
From now on, they doubt that Spanish Anthony.
St Anthony, built in 1856. year, he transported wheat from Chicago to Buffal when he was caught in Lake Huron in Ontario.
A Buffalo Daily Republic Piston News from 1856. in “Schooner St Anthony of Erie” transport wheat cargo near Goderich, Ontario. Another clip from November that year suggests that the Spanish with 325 tone troops running near Goderich.
“Her burden of wheat went through the bottom. He thinks he can be excluded,” he reads for the news.
At Least a Porter of the Ship Seems to Have Sunk and Stayed Buried Until 2023. “It was described as Having Gone Ashore Four Miles North of Goderich, Who Fits About Where This Wreeckage Is, And This Would Only Represent A Very Small Piece,” Marine Historian Patrick Folkes Told CBS News.