Rolex Found with Metal Detector. What has a crown on the face but is not a cob? A Rolex of course.
This one drowned. A jeweler said he could easily replace the face and get it working though.
The empty space inside the watch makes it relatively light, so you can often find watches during sanded-in conditions.
All is not lost when the beaches are sanded in. You just might need to change what you are looking for and where you are looking. There were a lot of things on the beach this morning - some hundreds of thousands of years old. Of course I'm talking about fossils.
Celtic Cross as Technology. I found an interesting article on the Celtic Cross that maintains that says that the Celic Cross was used as a survey instrument and nautical navigation instrument. The article says that the Celtic cross was used with a plumb line to construct the pyramids and determine positions around the globe. To read the article, go to the following address.
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_5.htm
Reader Email. I got an interesting email from someone new to the hobby and they asked what metal detector they could buy that would actually find things.
I gave them some ideas about buying a detector. Of course, I couldn't tell them which one to buy because that depends on a number of factors including what they want to hunt, where they want to hunt, their budget, and their psychology. I wanted to help them out as much as I could, so I suggested a few brands, but there is another answer that is perhaps more correct.
I don't know exactly why the person asked the question the way they did. The question seemed to suggest that maybe they had tried a little detecting and hadn't found much. And maybe they had a detector that wasn't really very good, but maybe they had a perfectly fine detector. I don't know, maybe none of that is true, but there is something that I want to say here.
Here it is. A metal detector never found anything. A detector will never find anything.
You might say that I'm being a little extreme, and maybe that is true, but there is a very important point that I want to make. In my mind, it is the detectorist that finds things. It is the detectorist that turns on the machine, tunes it, and puts the coil over an object. Some experienced hunters can find things on a consistent basis without a detector. Of course, those hunters can find more with a detector,but it is not the detector that provides the skill and know-how. Basically, you can't expect much more from a detector than beeping when it is put over a good target.
I've talked to old people that walk along Miami beach and find coins all the time without a detector. They don't even own a detector. And many experienced detectorists have eyeballed a lot of good things, including cobs and gold.
The thing is, in my opinion, the emphasis should be as much or more on the skill of the detectorist than on the capabilities of the detector. I'm not saying a good detector is not important. I'm just saying it is not the only important thing, and in my way of thinking, not the most important thing.
On another topic, another email I got came from Gary D., one of the most successful beach hunters around. He found the big emerald ring that I've shown a few times and teaches a session in one of the big treasure hunting seminars.
Confirming what I said about swinging your detector in a recent post, Gary wrote, "I have found 2 items on the treasure coast after hammering a beach methodically then walking off fast just swinging between strides, a nice 4 inch long piece of silver plate above the high tide line on the way back to the parking lot, and another time I found a 1 reale which was the only target or signal in 3 whole hours!! It was also above the high tide line in the dry sand. How do you explain that? Probably from a previous really high tide?"
Confirming another point that I've made in the recent past, Gary wrote about finding a half reale laying on top of the dry sand toward the back dunes. He said he thought the rain probably washed it out of the dunes.
I've talked about wind and rain erosion before, but in the future, I think I need to talk some about the layering of the beaches.
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Beach Conditions. No change yet. I heard they were even down-grading the number of named storms expected to 10 this year. We've had proactically nothing at this point.
The waves are a little higher today. And the tides are around 3 o'clock. I actually saw another little (and I mean little) cut this morning. Mostly, there was sand building up on the beach.
Scout around and check for the signs of treasure or find a nice water spot, or hit a heavily used beach.
Keep watching for a summer storm.
TreasureGuide@comcmast.net
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