Reliving Drama of San Jacinto Battles with Mexico

Consultants & Vendors - Mining & Environmental

Date posted: 06/05/13

A sweep by Archaeologist Charles Bludau, B.Sc., with his metal detector scores a eureka moment as it beeps a find. Probing with a trowel, he and his team from HRA Gray and Pape, archaeological consultants from Houston, Texas, nudges a musket ball, likely fired by a Mexican weapon, from the earth. Out comes a shovel, and digging begins. Sticky mud of Lake Charles clay deposited during the last ice age rubs into the wire mesh of a desk-drawer-sized sieve. Fingers smear through the viscous mass in search of historic treasure.