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Unidentified wax chunks washed up on the beach
On the northern Oregon Coast, near the mouth of the Nehalem River, beeswax chunks, other cargo, and even parts of a ship have been turning up over the past two centuries. Is this a lost Spanish galleon from the 17th Century? My buddy from high school, Scott Williams, is the Washington state archaeologist working on the project and he thinks it is. When I last visited him he showed me chunks of wax…or something…that had washed up on the beach that they were trying to identify.
Oregon Field Guide recently aired a story on the project that I thought you all might find fascinating. Enjoy! View the video here.
I also found a second video online from The Archaeology Channel:
