This is part of a mast being held in place by the weight of an iron mast ring since around 1841. It came to rest here in about 20 feet of water after first being washed over the shallow reef, along with it's ship. Interestingly, the iron ring is holding a splinter of the mast, the whole assembly being about 55 inches in length. The wood seems to be very hard and has suffered only little worm damage. The iron ring has much growth of sponges and other sessile organisms. Consequently, it is difficult to make accurate measurements. My reckoning is that has an outside circumference of 75 inches. And from the outside to the inside of the ring is about 4 inches.
This is another iron ring not far from the splintered mast, a few fin flips to the northeast. Measurements for this ring are: 23 inches outside diameter, 73 inches outside circumference, and 7 inches high.
Moving to the east about about 450 feet over the shallow reef, one encounters more wreck debris as the depth drops again to 20 ft. This is where the ship first made contact with the reef. This is where we found all the artifacts in 1956/7.
The structure in the picture above is a piece of decorative railing or support, and is 88 inches in length. It is not a complete piece. There are a few broken ends.
There are two of these structures, this one that I named the square nosed V structure, and the other one that I named the round nosed V structure. They are both rather stout pieces. The V legs vary in length from 34 inches to 58 inches. Probably this variance can be attributed to breakage as they were wrenched from the hull. Both of these V structures have an inside angle of approx 40 degrees.
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