- Who Found
- Gilbert Hedden
- When Found
- 1937
- Where Found
- Near Joudrey's Cove
- Firsthand / Secondhand
- Secondhand - D'Arcy O'Connor's "The Big Dig", pg. 108
- References
- "There does not exist an old dump on the island in which are the remains of thousands of broken pottery flasks. That this dump is old is supported by the fact that we found nearby an old coin and an ivory Boatswain's whistle which experts tell us date back to the Elizabethan period. " An interview by D'Arcy O'Connor with Amos Nauss in 1976. "Amos Nauss, one of Hedden's worker's, told me that a liquid residue discovered in some of the flasks was indeed mercury."
- Location Today
- Under shed on Fred Nolans property?
- Oddity Factor
- 8
- Assessment of Authenticity
- Letter written by Hedden to Professor Burrell Ruth
- Comments
- It seems they were pottery flasks not clay which is consistent with how mercury was shipped by the Spanish (and probably others) in the period from 1500 to 1700 or so.
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