Most Likely Not From the CSS Georgia-- Part 1: An Anchor, Some Cannons and a Timber

From the April 13, 2021, Waterways Journal Weekly  "Dredge contractor turns up cannons, anchor while working in the Savannah River" by Frank McCormack.

A dredge contractor working on the Savannah Harbor  Expansion Project they are used to dredging up lots of sand as they deepen the harbor from 42 to 47 feet.

But in February, the crew of the ship turned up items of far more archaeological significance while working in the vicinity of Fort Jackson, a 19th century fort built in the years leading up to the War of 1812, located just a few miles east of Savannah.

The crew brought up several cannons, an anchor and a timber, all likely to date from well before the Civil War.

Since the dredge site was so close to the proximity of where the CSS Georgia, a Confederate ironclad, sank in the closing days of the war, extra screening was being enforced,  This process is intended to identify  potential discarded  military munitions  or unexploded ordnance  that might have migrated from the CSS Georgia site into the channel over the past 150 years.

--Old B-Runner