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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: SydneyRover on November 17, 2025, 10:32:09 pm

Title: Spanish Armada-era astrolabe returns to Scilly after mysterious global journey
Post by: SydneyRover on November 17, 2025, 10:32:09 pm

QI .....

''Navigation aid from 16th century was on seabed for centuries before being bought and sold in US and Australia.

It spent hundreds of years languishing on the seabed off the Isles of Scilly in the far south-west of Britain before being hauled back to the surface by divers and setting off a circumnavigation of the world.

Finally the Pednathise Head astrolabe – a rare example of a 16th-century navigational instrument once used by sailors to determine latitude – is back on Scilly after being rediscovered on the other side of the Atlantic''

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/16/spanish-armada-era-astrolabe-returns-to-scilly-after-mysterious-global-journey

Title: Re: Spanish Armada-era astrolabe returns to Scilly after mysterious global journey
Post by: tommy toes on November 18, 2025, 09:38:15 am

So glad the Scilly Astrolabe conundrum has been solved.
Makes my job a little easier.

Title: Re: Spanish Armada-era astrolabe returns to Scilly after mysterious global journey
Post by: Colemans Left Hook on November 18, 2025, 09:41:50 pm

Talking of "things in Auction having been at the bottom of the sea"

I came across this recently  in a general sale

Could say we are scraping the bottom   

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/timeline-auctions-limited/catalogue-id-srtime10116/lot-7280e383-b908-414c-bf06-b38b00e27fbd?queryId=fd556f362b954240f035d8cbfe2b32e9