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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Blackbeard's anchor recovered off NC coast



The Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck site, located off North Carolina's coast, has yielded more than 250,000 artifacts and is listed on the National Register of Historic Sites.

The area was located in 1996 by a Florida company called Intersal, Inc.

The anchor is believed to be the second biggest on the site, measuring about 13 feet long with arms that are eight feet wide and weighing about 3,000 pounds (1,360 kg), said Mark Wilde-Ramsing, a deputy state archeologist.

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