Botany Bay Plantation is located on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Sea level rise has destroyed a forest where the plantation meets the Atlantic. The sandy beach line is covered with dead trees, shells and archeological bulding remains.
Red colored bricks, weathered and rounded, cover the beach. The exact source of the bricks is unclear. Brick ovens that date to colional times are still obserable on the island. The bricks on Botany Bay Beach are soft with a hardness of 2.
Over time, the shells, trees and bricks have mixed into a rather peculiar coquina like rock. The red color in the pictured sample comes from the weathered bricks. A true Anthropocene sedimentary rock that contains material from the bricks and shells. I’m calling it anthrobotanite.
Coquina like sedimentary rock
Weathered brick source material
Botany Bay Beach, Edisto, SC