The brass wheel is modern, either part of some wreck or some junk that slid off a barge, or was planted. I've read that that particular artifact was actually made for a TV show about the supposed Israelite crossing of the Gulf of Aqaba.
134 posted on 06/27/2006 6:33:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006.)