9/23/19 Report - Two Named Storms Now. Very Early Shipwreck Discovered. One Important Factor For Success.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov

We have two named storms in the Atlantic now: Kirk and Leslie.

It looks like Leslie will just hang around out there for a while.

Tropical Depression Eleven is weak and not expected to strengthen much.

The area just to the east of us is expected to head north. We might get some angled waves from that one.

The one to watch, in my opinion, is Kirk.  It still has a long way to go, but it looks like Kirk will be heading this direction.  It is supposed to remain a storm for several days.

Predicted Path of Kirk.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

We'll have a decent surf for a couple of days, and an east northeast swell.

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Archeologists have found a centuries-old shipwreck off Portugal's coast near Lisbon, a local mayor's office said Saturday.

Aboard the ship, thought to have sunk between 1575 and 1625, divers found spices, including pepper; Chinese ceramics from the period; and cowpies, a type of shell used as currency for the slave trade in some parts of Africa at the time.

The project's science director, Jorge Freire, called it the "discovery of the decade."

Very nice discovery, but "discovery of the decade"?  I don't think it is all of that.

Here is the link for more of the article.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/centuries-old-shipwreck-found-in-portugal/ar-AAAufJr?ocid=spartandhp

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I saw this quote today and thought it was worth posting.

"Success is not the way to happiness; happiness is the way to success."

Here is the link to the article: https://www.spiritdaily.com/happiness.htm

I really agree with the quote, and in more ways than one.

First, how can you say someone is successful if they aren't happy.  It doesn't matter what they have or get, they just aren't happy people.  That is no kind of success that I'd be interested in.

Happiness helps people succeed.  Happy people attack projects with optimism, joy and energy.  If you love what you are doing, the chances are very good that you will do it well.

There is a clerk at my local Dollar Tree.  I enjoy meeting him every time I'm in the store.  He is young and geeky looking and his contemporaries might consider him weird, but he is always up-beat, goes beyond what he has to in order to make sure he is serving you well.  He greets people like he likes them and his work.  He knows what he is doing.  He is making his job enjoyable for both himself and his customers.  I have no doubt he will do well in life.  I know that it is only a temporary job for him and I feel certain he is working towards other things.  If I had a business and needed a worker, I'd try to recruit him.  He is excellent.

There are detectorists (very few) that have written to the TreasureGuide who seem to be unhappy.  They seem to think the world is treating them unfairly.  They criticize others and wonder why no one thinks as much of them as they should.  That won't get you anywhere.

I like to make a distinction between joy and happiness.  Joy is internal.  It doesn't come from what happens to you.  Happiness does.  When things go well you can be happy. I  don't think the author of the quote was making that distinction.

In any case, I think the quote is worth thinking about.  To me it seems very wise.

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I'll be watching for changes to the beach in the coming days.

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

Angry grouch people never seem to be successful. How can you say someone is happy if they aren't happy.

9/22/18 Report - Atlantic Getting Active Again. Tropical Storm Kirk. Medieval Seal Found by Metal Detector.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov

Things are heating up in the Atlantic again.  The wave almost directly east of us only has about a 20% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours.

According to Ventusky, it will be closest to us on Tuesday (See below.).

Wind Speed Map for This Coming Tuesday.

Source: Ventusky.com

The wind speed map then shows it moving directly north.

I wouldn't pay too much attention to the area northeast of that.  I don't think it will likely come our way.

Eleven is going to head in our direction as a depression for the next couple of days.  It is still days away, and there is a lot of time for it to change.   I don't expect much out of it for at least a few days.

Kirk is headed in our general direction, but is also still far away.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

The Treasure Coast is supposed to have three to five feet of surf for a couple of days.

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During the construction of new pipelines, archaeologists uncovered an unusual find on a small island in central Sweden.

The group found a fragment of a medieval seal on Biskops Arnö, in between Uppsala and Stockholm.

"I was very lucky to make that discovery," archaeologist Maria Lingström, one of the group of archaeologists which is linked to the Swedish History Museum, told The Local. "The shaft for the pipeline was just one metre wide and about ten metres deep by the time I examined it. Without a metal detector, I wouldn't have found it."

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

https://www.thelocal.se/20180921/archaeologists-find-medieval-seal-on-biskops-arno-sweden

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/6/18 Report - Big Surf Predicted for Next Week. Florence Could Cause Problems For the U. S. Coast.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Three More Systems To Watch.
Source: nhc.noaa.gov

After a very quiet summer, there is now a lot of weather in the Atlantic.  

The most significant thing to watch right now in my opinion is Florence, which has been wobbling.  For a while she was headed west towards the Bahamas.  

The system behind Florence has a 70% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next forty-eight hours.  And then there is another area behind that one to keep an eye on.

It now looks like we could get some big waves next week.

Three to five feet is predicted for this weekend, with seven to eleven feet for next Wednesday.  That could get interesting.  We haven't had waves like that for quite a while.  There is a lot of sand to be moved, but that could do it.

Florence Off the East Coast Next Wednesday.
Source: Ventusky.com

If you are wondering what would cause the high surf, here is how Ventusky shows Florence next Saturday - well north of us, but sending waves our direction.

Notice the other system below that.  There is a lot going on there.

That system is predicted to be near the Dominican Republic the following weekend.

Prediction for Ten Days From Now.
Source: Ventusky.com

Of course, this is just a prediction, so it might not happen.  But it is worth watching.  We might get some improved beach hunting in the next week or two.

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I typed a few paragraphs paragraphs how objects moved on the beach, but lost it somehow.  I'll have to rewrite that to post some time in the near future.


One of Japan’s busiest airports remained closed indefinitely, a day after the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years flooded a runway, toppled huge cranes, flipped cars on their side, damaged historic shrines and caused at least 11 deaths as it swept across part of Japan’s main island.

Typhoon Jebi came ashore with sustained winds of 160 kilometers (100 miles) per hour, cutting a path of destruction in and around Osaka and nearby cities that bore the brunt of the storm...

Here is the link for the rest of that article.
https://apnews.com/24053a149be740e2aeb73957fb751bc1/Typhoon-leaves-major-airport-closed-and-destruction-in-Japan

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In recent months, two 150-ton survival bunkers journeyed by land and sea from a Texas warehouse to the shores of New Zealand, where they’re buried 11 feet underground.

Seven Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have purchased bunkers from Rising S Co. and planted them in New Zealand in the past two years, said Gary Lynch, the manufacturer’s general manager. At the first sign of an apocalypse — nuclear war, a killer germ, a French Revolution-style uprising targeting the 1 percent — the Californians plan to hop on a private jet and hunker down, he said...

Here is that link.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doomsday-preppers/

Looks like all the super-rich are ready to take off and leave us poor suckers behind.



Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/31/18 Report - Mayan Ritual Mask Discovered. Finally Some Activity in the Atlantic. Circus World Token Find.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Circus World Token.

The big news for me today is the activity in the Atlantic.  After a very long quiet summer with very little other than calm seas and building beaches, we now have to areas to watch.  The first is southeast of the Bahamas, and the other is still closer to Africa than us.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov

The disturbance to the southeast of us is not expected to become a cyclone in the next 48 hours.  After checking Ventusky.com I don't expect it to affect our beaches much at all.

The other system is expected to become a hurricane, but it looks to me like it will stay far out in the Atlantic.

As you know, any of this could change, so it is worth watching.

Although the beach conditions haven't been good, there have been some nice shipwreck finds, as you've seen.

I haven't detected much at all this summer due to a variety of factors, and much of my detecting was on an inland site that produced some very nice finds.   I've posted some of those in the past.

I spent a good bit of time catching up on cleaning and inspecting finds.  The token above is one that I finally got around to cleaning.  I couldn't see what it looked like until I cleaned it off.

I expect to get back out to do some beach hunting in the near future.

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Archaeologists have discovered a ritual mask in Mexico which is thought to represent the face of one of Mesoamerica’s most important historical rulers.

According to the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the mask was found inside a building known as “House E” in the palace complex at Palenque—an ancient Mayan city in the south of the country and one of its most precious archaeological gems...

This is a good article that includes a video of underwater artifacts.

Here is the link more.

https://www.newsweek.com/1500-year-old-ritual-mask-longest-reigning-ancient-mayan-king-discovered-1093287

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I'm not expecting much soon, but hopefully we'll get some weather that helps beach conditions before long.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

7/8/18 Report - Tropical Storm Update: Chris and Beryl. Things Heating Up.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Tropical Storm Chris and Beryl.
Source: nhc.noaa.gov

As of Sunday morning, we now have tropical storm Chris, which is expected to become a hurricane and head northeast.

Projected Path of Chris.
Source: nhc.noaa.gov

It looks like Chris might produce some detecting conditions on beaches from North Carolina to Maine.

Projected Path of Beryl
Source: nhc.noaa.gov

Beryl is still headed in our direction, but weakening.

The Treasure Coast is supposed to see a light increase in the surf on Tuesday ( two to four feet ) but that is the peak for the week, with nothing bigger until at least next weekend.

It looks like the Atlantic is heating up and there could be a lot of action this summer.

I'll go ahead and post this much, and might be back later with more.


PM UPDATE:

It looks like Beryl is going to fall apart, and Chris will be the one to watch.  Even though the predicted path has Chris going north, it is supposed to turn into a hurricane and backtrack to the south a little before heading north.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/2/17 Report - New Distrubance Forms In The Gulf. Using Patterns and Technologies for Finding Detecting Sites. Device You Will Want To Have.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov

It looks like the Gulf is starting to produce a lot of weather.  We now have a new disturbance in about the same area that Emily formed.  At this point it only has a small chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours, but that is the way Emily started too, and Emily formed very rapidly.  Emily is no longer a tropical storm and is headed out to sea.

There is another disturbance out in the Atlantic, but it is too early to be too concerned about that one.

Expect another week of one and two-foot surf.  The tides aren't big now.

AFTERNOON UPDATE:  Emily and both of the other disturbances have now disappeared.

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When I post links, they usually provide some type of clue or lesson.  That is definitely the case with the next article.  Here is a brief excerpt.


...So Stirn set out to develop a model to predict the location of more, similar villages.

He first determined all of the main traits that the newfound villages had in common — namely, that they were positioned on south-facing, sunny slopes near whitebark pine stands above 3,200 meters in elevation....

I often talk about patterns: weather patterns, beach dynamics, coin distributions, etc.  There are signs or clues to the location of treasures.  It is all about increasing the probability of success by understanding patterns.  

You might occasionally find something by wandering around randomly ( the blind hog occasionally picks up an acorn ), but you'll be much more successful if you recognize the signs or clues and patterns.  Treasure doesn't just fall out of the sky, it ends up where it is found as the result of human behavior and the laws of nature.  People are somewhat predictable, as is nature.  

Patterns can be complex, especially when it comes to treasure, and we seldom get the whole picture, but the more you understand the patterns, the better you will do.

In the article that I am referring to, several signs predicted the location of Native American villages that were previously unknown.  The newly located villages were located on south-facing slopes that were sunny, above 3200 meters of elevation near stands of whitebark pine.

There are signs or patterns that will help you located all kinds of things, such as metal detecting sites, shipwreck sites, coin holes, good jewelry beaches, etc.  I've talked about all of those things in the past.

The particular pattern that you will be looking for depends upon the kinds of sites you want to find and the types of treasures you are hunting.

The article was talking about Native American sites, but there are more general lessons that you can take from it.  Here is another excerpt.

Then, using Landsat satellite imagery, Stirn and his colleagues identified whitebark pine stands in the northern Winds that best fit their model’s description.

Ancient village sites were discovered in Wyoming after scientists predicted where the would be found based upon site characteristics...

They used Landsat satellite imagery to locate the village sites after they knew what to look for.  As I mentioned in a recent post, you can use webcam images to survey beaches, and you can use other internet tools such as Google Earth to locate good detecting sites.

When you make a find, observe where it was found.  Ask yourself why the item was there, how it ended up where it was found, and what are the clues or signs that might have led you to believe that it might be there.

Here is the link to the article I've been talking about.

http://westerndigs.org/thirteen-prehistoric-villages-discovered-in-wyoming-mountains-may-redraw-map-of-tribal-migrations/

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This is an inexpensive device that I've used for a lot of years.  It still works and is very handy.

It is a battery tester and works on batteries of various sizes.  If this one ever quit working I'd get another right away.

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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/9/16 Report - Two Systems Hurricane Trackers Are Watching. Deep Sea Fishing Effects On Shipwrecks. Cobs With One Good and One Bad Side.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Two Atlantic Disturbances To Watch.

As you can see there are now two systems that we need to watch, both of which seem to be headed to the east of the Treasure Coast.

The second (red) has a higher chance of becoming a cyclone in the next couple of days.

Both of these could bring us some north/northeast winds.  There is no big increase in surf predicted yet.  In fact the predictions are showing mostly a two-foot surf for the next few days.

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You might think that deep sea wrecks rest undisturbed.  That is not usually the case.  Various types of fishing trawlers and things rake through wreck sites, scattering the remains and breaking artifacts.

Many pictures and examples are shown in an Odyssey Marine study.

One of Many Pictures Showing Effects of Deep Sea Fishing.

Here is the link.

http://www.shipwreck.net/pdf/OMEPapers4Final_000.pdf

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In recent weeks I've talked about cobs found as a cache that were in remarkable condition.  Many cobs found on a beach will be very much corroded and some will be so corroded that it is difficult or impossible to tell for sure what they are.

In the past I've found some cobs that were in very good or excellent condition on one side and very poor condition on the other side.

Below is a grading system used in one Odyssey Marine paper.

Grade One coins display little or no visible ocean wear, show little or no roughness or pitting, and, therefore, look much as they did when new. Both sides are in Very Good to Excellent condition and the obverse and reverse features resulting from the original strike are defined and easily identifiable.

Grade Two coins were partly exposed to the elements. The coin may not be completely intact or it may look more ‘sand-blasted’ than a Grade One, but the quality is still Good and most of the features resulting from the original strike are easily identifiable.

Grade Three coins are in Fair overall condition, but ocean wear is very apparent. Many Grade Three coins were typically located on the outer layer of a shipping chest and, therefore, the side of the coin that faced into the chest will be of Grade One or Grade Two quality. The opposite side, exposed to the elements following the wooden chest’s deterioration, is completely worn away. Other Grade Three coins might incorporate ocean wear distributed across both sides of the coin. On Grade Three coins, obverse and/or reverse sides will still offer easily identifiable characteristics that have definition.

Grade Four coins are still identifiable as Spanish Colonial coins, but they have been subject to much wear and tear and the markings are faint and have little or no definition.

Grade Five coins are just above a fragment in quality, but can still be identified as a coin taking into consideration factors such as shape and provenience. • A Fragment is a piece of silver recovered among concentrations of coins, but with no markings to identify it as a coin.

Here is the link for that source.

http://www.shipwreck.net/pdf/OMEPapers30-2013_001.pdf

They talk about one way that cobs end up being good on one side and poor on another side. They are referring to cobs that were salvaged from the sea and probably never spent any time on a beach.

One cob I'm reminded of was found on a beach and appeared to have been just washed out of the dunes.  It had a sand and shell crust covering one side.  That side was not visible at all because of the crust when it was dug.  The other side was not covered and displayed fairly good detail.

When the sand/shell crust was removed, that side then showed remarkable detail - much better than the exposed side.  The crust protected that surface of the cob, while the other side was worn down by washing around on the beach.

I'm not certain why one side was covered with a crust while the other side wasn't.  I do believe that that cob spent many years in the dunes.

How a cob corrodes can depend upon what it is next to.or touches.  I once did a couple of posts on surface analysis of cobs and talked about galvanic corrosion.

You can go to the following post to read about that.

http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/search?q=surface+analysis

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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/22/16 Report - Another Cache From the 2004 Hurricanes. Old Great Lakes Shipwreck. Fort Benton Dig. Fiona and Other Weather Systems.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Another Post-Hurricane Cache
Source: 2015 Orlando Sentinel Clipping
sent to me by Darrel S.

This cache was found by Joel Ruth in Brevard County just after Hurricane Jeanne.  I've been talking a good bit about caches lately and decided to add this one.

There were really a lot of finds after Jeanne and Francis.  Coins were found in bunches by a number of  detectorists after the hurricanes.  I've shown only a very few of those that I know about.

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Zika appears to be spreading.  Portect youself from mosquitos in any case.  Here is a link about that.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article96420487.html

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said Wednesday...

The sloop Washington was built on Lake Erie in Pennsylvania in 1798 and was used to transport people and goods between western New York, Pennsylvania and Ontario. It was placed on skids and hauled by oxen teams across the Niagara Isthmus to Lake Ontario in 1802 after being sold to Canadian merchants...

Here is the link.

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/17/explorers-find-second-oldest-confirmed-shipwreck-great-lakes/

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FORT BENTON – Perhaps as many as 120 years have passed since the historic old Fort Benton had both its blockhouses, defensive towers at opposite corners of the fur-trade-era fort...

An archaeological dig is underway to determine exactly where the southwest blockhouse was, its pieces long ago repurposed...

Here is that link.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2016/08/15/digging-history-fort-benton/88810422/

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This has been a tough year for me.  Jan. 1 I broke and tooth, then a multitude of things happened including my mother's hospitalization, then I spent this past weekend in the hospital.  My luck has been as bad as the weather had been hot.  I've had a two decades worth of inconvenience in a single year. I'm fine now. It was a weird thing, and I'm back to normal. Hope the worst of this year is over.

I was headed to the walk-in clinic when I got sick as a dog and had to pull into an gas station.  I drove over to an unpaved exit that I thought was pretty much out of the way where I had to open the door and throw-up everything in side me, while some fellow blew his horn for me to move because I guess I was inconveniencing him.  I really appreciated that.  Actually I was too sick at the time to pay it much other than passing attention.

It has been month after month of the same type of weather.  I'm hoping for a change there too.  I'd like to see a good long storm but not a hurricane.

Source: nhc.noaa,gov

Fiona is still out there and heading towards Bermuda.

The second one (yellow) has not strengthened yet, but could head our way.

The third is expected to become a cyclone very soon, but is still expected to head out into the North Atlantic.

This morning the surfing web site predicted a ten foot surf for the Treasure Coast, but that didn't last long.  It is not back down to around three feet.  Those big bumps you see in the surf report 7 to 10 out seldom last.

We'll have to wait a little longer before we get any kind of a good idea about what these weather systems will bring to the Treasure Coast.

Glad to be out of the hospital.  I did my last post from the hospital bed.  First time I was a hospital patient in the last sixty years or so.  Don't want to be one again.

I still have a lot of finds and stuff to show you.  Sometimes I'm missing a detail that I'd like to include and don't have the time to spend researching it.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/21/14 Report - Possible Storm Heading Our Way. Metal Awl Dating Back Thousands Of Years Found.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.BlogSpot.com.

Tropical Disturbance Just East of the West Indies.

This disturbance has about a 50% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours. 

One computer model predicts that it will hit South Florida, however the computer models aren't very accurate before you have a developed storm.  Note that at this point there is only a 50% chance of development in the next couple of days.

If it does develop, it will have a C name.  I heard it, but forgot what it will be.

My guess is that it is a long shot for us.   Still, worth watching.


The oldest metal object ever found in the Middle East is a recently found copper awl dating to around 5200  to 4600 BCE.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/the-oldest-metal-object-found-to-date-in-the-middle-east2


Sea mammals brought tuberculosis from Africa to the New World, not Europeans.   That is what this article suggests, though they don't go there.

https://asunews.asu.edu/20140819-tuberculosis-research-seals-sea-lions


My most read post of June 2014 was the following.

6/29/14 Report - National Archives For Research, Detecting Military Shells With a 2-Box Detector, Getting To More Remote Beaches, & US Religious Shrine


A massive tomb was found in Greece

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/08/13/massive-tomb-unearthed-in-greece/20946363/

http://archaeology.org/news/2428-140813-tomb-greece-hellenistic-ancient-grave-Macedonian

When such huge discoveries are still being made, you know there is a lot out there remaining to be discovered.


Just a short post today.  A lot of people liked yesterdays post.  It  showed the development and anatomy of a recent coin hole.  Take a look if you haven't seen it.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

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8/19/14 Report - Three Surprises. One Dense Coin Hole. Brass Button Found. How To Reinforce Metal Detector Rod Stem.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.BlogSpot.com.

Concave Brass Button Found This Morning

I went out this morning to do a little detecting near low tide and had a couple of surprises.  The first was that my camera battery was dead.  That turned out to be especially disappointing because of the next surprise.

I was digging a target at the waterline while facing the beach when I heard something behind me.  I turned around a saw an unusually large manatee not much more than five yards behind me.  The beach dropped off very steeply there.  Anyhow I wish I had my camera working at that point.

I guess I need to check more than my detector before going out.  I did check my detector but not my camera.

I spent most of my time in an area not much bigger than ten square yards.  The targets were dense.  Probably near fifty coins and things in that small area.  Mostly modern coins.

 I like those kinds of areas even if most targets are nothing special.  When they are densely packed, there will usually be at least one or two better things.

I didn't get a picture because of the above mentioned reason, but I'll try to draw a diagram to show what it was like and how the targets were distributed.  I'll try to do that tomorrow.  It is instructive.

That was the kind of area that you can spot a mile away (exaggeration), and the kind of place that I would never pass up.

There was very little trash in that area. 

This area is seldom detected.  I don't think I've ever seen anyone else detect there over the years.



Whites detectors seem to have some problems with the plastic parts.  I don't know if they suffer from the Florida heat or what, but I've had a few broken plastic parts that received no unusual amount of stress.

The plastic part that connects one ear phone to the ear phone holder broke.   And two different lower rod stems broke. 

Working in the water does put more stress on a detector.  

In the old days I broke about six arm rests on an old Fisher Aquanaut before I got a metal one to replace the weak plastic ones. 

But since two Whites lower rod stems broke on me, that seems to be a weakness, and so I decided to reinforce that area.

Whites Reinforced Lower Rod Stem.

The above picture shows the reinforced lower rod assembly.   A section of pvc pipe that would not fit over the entire lower stem without slitting was cut to a short length, and then the section was slit along the length of the section, and then slipped on over the lower stem.  The slit along the section of pipe allowed the short section to open just enough so that it would fit very tightly on the stem.   That should provide additional strength so that the stem will not break again.

The lines drawn on the pvc section shows the larger rod on the left, which the smaller diameter stem fits into.  Two pins go through both the larger rod and stem to hold the stem in place.

On the two breaks that I've seen, the stem broke at the lower of the two pins where the red line is drawn on the illustration.

We'll see if this reinforcement keeps the new rod stem from breaking.  I think it will.


One more surprise.  Treasure Coast conditions remain poor.  That is no surprise.  The button shown above was found.  That is a surprise, given the poor conditions.

It was found where old things have not been found before even though a lot of modern things have been found there.

The button is 2 centimeters in diameter, and is in unusually good condition, and appears to have a good bit of remaining gilt.  It must have been buried safely for a long time.   Unfortunately there is no back mark or anything to date or identify it.

The best web site about old Spanish military artifacts that I know of is the one listed in my rerference list.  

If you've never looked at it, you should.  The button information is absolutely great.

Here is a link to see similar buttons.

http://www.artifacts.org/Early%20Buttons.htm

The above button looks something like the example labeled Presidio.

Source: www.nhc.noaa.gove

On the Treasure Coast we still have a one-foot surf, and will for a while.

There are, however, two weather systems in the Atlantic to watch.  The one nearest us has a 30% of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net

7/30/14 Report - Fine Bunch of Stone Tools Found. Site For Learning About Stone Tools. Cyclone Likely to Develop in Atlantic.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.BlogSpot.com.



Photos of Finds Submitted
By One Reader From South Africa

I got an email from a reader in South Africa that found these stone tools.  I only have a vague familiarity with that sort of thing.  I wondered if anyone knows if they have a Portable Antiquities Program like England or what the laws are in South Africa.  He has some very nice finds but doesn't know what to do.

Here are some of his pictures.

  





 He said something about what he thinks is a Spanish shield on an item from the same location.  I didn't see a picture of that.

Maybe some of you guys that know about stone artifacts can offer some comments.





I don't do this very often anymore, but I did it today.  I added another site to my reference link list.  That site will give you a very good introduction to stone tools and a few other objects.  If you want to be able to identify a stone tool when you stub your toe on one, this would be a good site to look at.

I think every detectorist should know a little bit about a lot of things, and this is one of those things.

Check it out.

http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/tools.html#chopper

Very good site for learning some basics.  It is now listed on my reference list as Stone Tools: An Introduction.


Don't throw anything away in the field if it MIGHT be interesting.  I've done that too many times.  I still regret discarding some things that I tossed aside years ago.  It is important to recognize items in the field, but if you aren't sure what something is or might be, hold onto it until you can really inspect it and do some research.  You can always throw something away later, but you might never find it again if you toss it aside too soon.

The most recent item that I discarded was a piece of flint that I dug when I was up north digging another target.  I should have kept it.  It wasn't an arrowhead, but it might have been another tool or partly worked.  I don't know now.  That is why I regret not keeping it.

It reminds me of the time many years ago when I dug a musket flint.  I was just beginning detecting and tossed it away.  That seems stupid to me today.  Shortly after tossing the flint I found the rusted part of the musket that held the flint.  Should have kept that too.  Live and learn.  Those are a couple of things that I threw away that today I wish I hadn't.



From the stone age to the digital age.  Early personal computers are selling for big dollars.  An Apple-1 (the company's original model) sold at auction in November 2010 for more than $213,000.

Here is a link to an article on collecting for financial investment.

 http://www.bankrate.com/lite/smart-spending/collecting-items-as-an-investment.aspx#ixzz38nRTfF8e


On the Treasure Coast we still have that one-foot surf and winds from the West today.

Low Pressure Area Likey To Become a Cyclone.

This low pressure area will likely become a cyclone (70% chance).

Who knows where it will go from there.  It is still a long way out.


I've been impressed lately how hunting the same site over and over again can continue to produce finds long after it would seem that you have covered everything, especially when you change detectors.  Some detectors that are very good at the beach are not so good on developed inland sites where there may be power lines, underground cables and other sources of interference and junk.


In the future I'll do some more tests with various detectors.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net