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Wonder if anybody's found the treasure yet??Nope. Or if they have, they're not telling. Damn you, NickW, I was going to trot out the Wash story tonight as an example of how King J. had two cold baths in 1215, and how the second one was probably less costly in the long run than the first ... 
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There have been unsuccessful attempts to locate the jewels. Unfortunately they did not have a seaman with them smart enough to take accurate bearings
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There have been unsuccessful attempts to locate the jewels. Unfortunately they did not have a seaman with them smart enough to take accurate bearings.
In 1215, old son, they didn't have the means or knowledge to enable them to take accurate bearings. They did search at the time, believe me. And so did the locals. But no joy. Or at least that's the current wisdom.
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I saw on Internet a site about a place on North Sea English coast of a place called Scara Brae, where they have found a sauna used in 8000 BC.
Dr. Bill, this may have been one of the Internet's less reliable sites. Scara Brae is in the Orkneys, which are most definitely part of Scotland, not England.
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Dear CK: They didn't have theodolites or optical compasses for taking exact azimuth, but they could have lined up objects on shore in more than one direction, so intersection of sightings would be over the wreck.
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Great theory, Dr Bill, but would you stop to take bearings when the sea is racing up the shallow sands at a speed of 30 - 40 mph ? (as I believe it does, round there.)
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According to a description I read, King John was on shore, and could have.
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Ah, but he wasn't a seaman - let alone a smart one.
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Back in the thirties there was a hilarious parody of English history "1066 And All That". Which mentioned a staple anecdote of old English history books that King John died ;"of a surfeit of peaches." I remember reading an article in a medical journal speculating that he actually died of coronary heart disease, a malady not described until fairly recently.
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