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Northshore October 2025
On a sunny Saturday near the end of March, treasure hunters thronged Steep Hill Beach at the foot of the Crane Estate in Ipswich. No one found any gold coins, but they did get to run their hands over the splintered wood of a schooner shipwrecked there 115 years ago. They scoured the tidal sands for pottery and chunks of iron left behind by the ship’s disintegration, and Shawna Pierce of Andover even discovered a piece of metal embossed with the letters M-A-S-S, likely a part of the ship’s stove. “It was really cool to pick up something no one else may have found yet,” Pierce says. “You wonder what part of the ship it’s from
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