Cornwall, England\u00a0\u2013 A routine fishing trip turned into a mystery when a local crew hauled a strange, barnacle-covered container from the seabed three miles off the coast of St. Ives.<\/p>\n
The object \u2013 roughly five feet long, made of dark wood with rusted iron bands \u2013 had no markings, no serial numbers, and no logical explanation.<\/p>\n
“We almost threw it back,” said captain Thomas Grady, 47. “But it was too strange.”<\/p>\n
After an hour of debate, the crew pried open the rusted lock. Inside, packed in black sediment, lay a collection of centuries-old artifacts: a gilded bronze hand mirror, three leather-bound books in an unknown language, a jeweled cross, and sealed parchment scrolls.<\/p>\n
Preliminary analysis suggests the items date from the late 15th century. But the mystery is this: the container shows almost no signs of being underwater for 500 years.<\/p>\n
“We should have left it down there,” said 68-year-old fisherman Edwin Marsh. He refused to explain why.<\/p>\n
The artifacts have been sent to a secure lab in London. The British Museum has classified the find as a “potential anomaly.”<\/p>\n
Captain Grady says he’s going back to fishing.\u00a0“Next time, I’m cutting the net.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cornwall, England\u00a0\u2013 A routine fishing trip turned into a mystery when a local crew hauled a strange, barnacle-covered container from the seabed three miles off the coast of St. Ives.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fresh-glaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}