The Spanish shipwrecks off Florida's coast have produce a number of full sized Viscayan style axes and some smaller spiked boarding hand axes. The Spanish Missions around Tallahassee have produced the same style axes. There were some very interesting finds from the Suwannee River. A river diver brought up a spontoon type smoking tomahawk that is made of hard pewter and no sharp edges. The diver also found a bundle of iron artifacts that were very interesting. When the bundle was cleaned, it revealed 5 lugged Spanish style hoes that were shuffled head to toe, a piece of woven matting and on the other side were 5 iron tomahawks, only one of which had a steeled edge and a larger eye. A trade type halberd was found near Apalachicola, FL. A tomahawk was found in the Chipola River that still had a good portion of the wooden handle affixed. Basically, almost all of the axes both large and small are of the Viscayan type. James "Sparkleberry Jim" Levy
