FF 563
Famous findLate 15th century, lost in 1492 · found 1796
The Santa María anchor: Columbus lost his flagship off Haiti in 1492, and an anchor turned up a kilometre inland three centuries later
Columbus's flagship, the Santa María, ran aground off the north coast of Haiti at Christmas 1492. In 1796, Haitian accounts say, a great iron anchor was dug up on a plantation about a kilometre from the sea. It is traditionally identified as hers and is held in Port-au-Prince.