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Treasures from 1608

Posted by Ishvara Dhyan on November 5, 2014 at 2:55pm
...recently I explored Treasure Beach to look for Chinese ceramic shards and carnelain trading beads from India that washed up on the beach after the Portuguese ship Santo Espiritu sank off the Wild Coast in 1608... we were the only ones on the beach and were lucky to find some treasures after 400 years
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  • Alaa eddine SAGID November 7, 2014 at 6:14pm

    Hurray!!

    NIce finds, especially the carnelian beads

  • Ishvara Dhyan November 9, 2014 at 8:32am

    as soon as i returned home i strung the beads and now wear them around my neck all the time

  • ingrid Langerak November 9, 2014 at 9:02am

    romantic and exciting!

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