Sunday, January 20, 2013

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Cumberland Island: Shipwreck Found In Georgia Sands

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Cumberland Island: Shipwreck Found In Georgia Sands
Jan 20th 2013, 19:56

SAVANNAH, Ga. -- The odd skeleton of wooden beams barely poked above the sands, exposed just enough by wind and tides for a beachcomber to report the curious find.

Fred Boyles, National Park Service superintendent on Georgia's Cumberland Island, says the buried beams could have easily been overlooked as ordinary flotsam washed ashore on the beach. But archaeologists called to the remote Atlantic coastal island spent days last week unearthing an astonishing find: an old wooden shipwreck held together with wooden pegs, its backstory lost in time.


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