Shipwrecked Artifacts from the Merestejin (1702) and an unknown Cape Shipwreck (Only for Personal Pick-up in the Western Cape)
This collection did not form part of the large shipwreck collection that I have recently listed on BidorBuy.
According to the vendor, all the items were salvaged from the Meresteijn (1702) except the conglomerate of cowrie shells that were salvaged from an unknown Cape shipwreck. However, on one of the storing boxes (not shown in the picture) is written Meresteijn Cannon Balls (larger = bar shot) and Rygersdal + Typical Conglomerate (Ship unknown)
Cowrie shells were used in the olden days by Africans as money but an internet source states "However, cowrie shells were more than money. They also represented power in trade. Europeans in the 16th century were able to use cowries to enter the valuable African trade markets, where they used shells to buy goods, including people..."
The items salvaged from the Meresteijn is the following:-
- A conglomerate showing some old clay pipes and pieces of glass.
- A conglomerate showing some pieces of glass.
- A small canon (?) ball that were probably embedding in the above conglomerate.
- A larger canon ball that was stored in the smaller boxed shown that reads End Shot of Large Bar Shot ex Meresteijn
- Four pieces of copper or brass, the one looking like a large nail.
It is interesting to note that the Meresteijn was salvaged during the early 1970s and the old newspaper that some of these artifacts were wrapped in is The Argus of 12 April 1975.
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