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Objects found while freediving

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Well Trelawney I found a 'Brown Bess' but mine was a shire horse !Well one of her shoes .when clearing a carp pit of snags for a fishing club ,the story goes when the pit was working making bricks a small rail track lead into the pit one day the horse fell on the slippy clay broke its leg was shot falling in ,to be left ...till I found the remains 100 year later.
 
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That is morbidly fascinating. Did you find additional remains?
 
Could also have been from a Sea Service "Brown Bess" as well. Cleaned up nice but you didn't want to leave as found? Also nice deadeye. I teach youth how to shoot blackpowder weapons twice a year. Have mostly percussion and cp-n-ball but also some flinter rifles, pistols and a .91 cal blunderbuss "The Beast" I let them shoot. Next event is in mid-October.
 
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Nudge. Anybody loose a spearo's weight vest & other items in Cornwall?

Mr. X said:
...Cornwall ....found several items of spearfishing gear on the seabed. The equipment included a spearo's back-weight/gilet .... if it belongs to you and you'd like it back, please PM me before the end of September 2014...
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No, crabs ate 'em!

(No, it was definitely not being worn at the time.)
 
Last post on this. Image of items found added to my original post & to the above post.
 
Mr. X said:
Think about it...
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Other than those items being all tied together with the belt (I didn't see your mentioning that but I may have. missed it) and it falling off a boat then I don't see what you mean . I originally assumed you found one item and then another a bit farther but upon re-reading I see you mention you think they have been there a long time, so I guess they were all tied together .
 
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...of the chattels or of the spearo?! Well, you have to do something if there are no fish around I suppose!
 
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