Blackbeard ’s beloved ship Queen Anne ’s Revenge sank off the coast of North Carolina in the eighteenth Century , and now researchers have recover a blade handle and some gold stashed aboard .
The steel sentry go you see above would have rested between the sword and the handle , and an XTC - ray revealed a piddling hole bored in it where you might hang a loop of jewelry – sort of the pirate sword equivalent of a cell phone spell .
Last week National Geographic reported on several other items recovered from the ship , include these midget nugget of amber that were hide in a keg of what was once ammo . Researchers speculate that one of the shipmen in all probability hide his gold in there and then it was lose when the ship sank .
Another bit of treasure recuperate was this navigational legal document ring a “ chart divider . ” agree to National Geographic :
Navigational instruments were favorite butt of plunder sea robber , because the tools could well be sell or swap , said archaeologist David Moore of the North Carolina Maritime Museum , who is make on the crash website .
There was also this gold apothecary weight , inlaid with the fleur de lis , a symbolic representation of French royal house , which affirm the story that Blackbeard stole the ship from France . Apothecary weights might have been used by a ship ’s doctor , or perhaps by Blackbeard himself for quantify the weight of gold he ’d stolen .
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