8/30/17 Report - U. S. Geological Survey Web Site That Shows Areas Expected To Undergo Coastal Change Events. Harvey and Tropical Storm Ten Coastal Change Area Maps.

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U. S. Geogloical Survey Coastal Change Hazards Portal
Source: See link below.

Here is a great tool for identifying coastal areas likely to significantly erode.  It is the U. S. Geological Survey Coastal Change Hazards Portal.  The above picture shows the areas identified for coastal change due to Topical Storm Ten.  The bright red shows a high (97% probability of storm-induced collision and specific areas of South Carolina.  A good portion of the South Carolina beaches is marked.  If you go to the site, you can zoom in for a more detailed map and more specific information.

Here is the link

https://marine.usgs.gov/coastalchangehazardsportal/

Texas is obviously going to have a lot of erosion - both coastal and otherwise.  I hate to think of the disaster as a metal detecting opportunity because the human loss and suffering is the highest priority, but this is a metal detecting/treasure hunting blog.  I'd encourage everyone to think of the human needs in Texas first and perhaps contribute to the relief effort in some way if you can.  I always end up passing up some of the best metal detecting opportunities during hurricanes because I think there are more important things to do.  There are people that need help.  We can, however learn a few things from the unfortunate event.  Earth and sand will be moved and historic items will be exposed that should be recovered before they are lost.  Despite what some would have you believe, they won't last forever and in many cases the archaeological context has been destroyed.

Using the U. S. Geological Survey Coast Change Hazards Portal, here is a look at the Texas coast.

U. S. Geological Survey Coastal Change Portal Showing Texas Coast.

As you can see, much of the Texas coast is in danger of inundation or overwash.

Below I zoomed in on an area near Corpus Christie Bay.

Area Near Corpus Christie Bay
Source: U. S. Geological Survey Coastal Change Portal

I'll added the link to my reference list.  You will find on the first page under the poll, surf and tides, and followers.  

This is one very useful tool.  You can watch it for future Florida coastal events.  

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov

Unfortunately Harvey hasn't moved much yet.

The system out by the Canary Islands has a 90% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours. It could be headed our way.


On the Treasure Coast we have a one to two foot surf.  The wind will be from the north this morning, shifting back to the south later in the day.  The tides are small now.

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The blog poll is progressing nicely.  Almost 100 people have responded so far.  It would be nice to get that number.  Only a short time left to respond.

You might want to play around with the Coastal Change Portal a little.  I had some other things to post today, but decided to put them off for another day.

I was looking for an old find and ran across what appears to me to be a strange error coin.  I also found some other good web sites.

Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

5/6/16 Report - The Guale Uprising of 1597. PARES Portal to Spanish Archives. Atocha Silver Bar. Smooth Surf and Big Tides.

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Illustration from Murder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida Don Juan and the Guale Uprising of 1597.

Here is a lot of great information on the missions in Spanish Florida and relations with the natives, including many pages of detailed information on the murder of missionaries and the following investigations. The title of the article is Murder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida Don Juan and the Guale Uprising of 1597.

Here is the abstract.

In the late fall of 1597, Guale Indians murdered five Franciscan friars stationed in their territory and razed their missions to the ground. The 1597 Guale Uprising, or Juanillo’s Revolt as it is often called, brought the missionization of Guale to an abrupt end and threatened Florida’s new governor with the most significant crisis of his term. To date, interpretations of the uprising emphasize the primacy of a young Indian from Tolomato named Juanillo, the heir to Guale’s paramount chieftaincy. According to most versions of the uprising story, Tolomato’s resident friar publicly reprimanded Juanillo for practicing polygamy. In his anger, Juanillo gathered his forces and launched a series of violent assaults on all five of Guale territory’s Franciscan missions, leaving all but one of the province’s friars dead. Through a series of newly translated primary sources, many of which have never appeared in print, this volume presents the most comprehensive examination of the 1597 uprising and its aftermath. It seeks to move beyond the two central questions that have dominated the historiography of the uprising, namely who killed the five friars and why, neither of which can be answered with any certainty. Instead, this work aims to use the episode as the background for a detailed examination of Spanish Florida at the turn of the 17th century. Viewed collectively, these sources not only challenge current representations of the uprising, they also shed light on the complex nature of Spanish-Indian relations in early colonial Florida.

Really a lot of good reading.  And here is the link.

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/6123/AP95.pdf?sequence=1

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PARES is the portal to the Spanish archives.  This is for the serious researcher who is fluent in Spanish.  You can get some really good research material through the PARES.

Here is that link.

http://pares.mcu.es/

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Silver Bar in Sedwick Auction.
Lot number 300.

About two more weeks are left for the current Sedwick Coins auction. Many lots already have starting bids.

The 85 pound silver bar shown above has an bid of over $35,000.  That bar has a lot of nice markings.  No wonder it is getting so much interest. It is from the Atocha.

The auction will be concluded live on the internet May 18 and 19.  Until then you can bid online.

http://www.sedwickcoins.com/ta19/catalog.htm

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We're having some smooth surf.  Expect at least a couple of days of one-foot surf.  That is good for getting in the water.  Also we're having some nice big tides with good negative tides.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net