[Enchante]

"Artifacts do move ... without the presence of Spaniards," he said. Blanton cheerfully agrees. "We may never know" how they wound up in the dirt of South Georgia, he said.

Interesting - but absent any other evidence, I don't see how it proves anything about Spanish presence in that particular location - trade with natives surely might have led to beads and other easily portable items getting dispersed up the coast.......

[vetvetdoug]

A High School student in Memphis, Tennessee, was walking on the East side of the Mississippi River bank and found a Spanish Dabloon. There was some other evidence that the Spaniards and DeSoto crossed the Mississippi there. Quite a find.