12/22/15 Report - A Few Recent Treasure Coast Finds. Beach Conditions. Important Viking Hoard Found.

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Emerald, Spike and Copper Finds.

I've been busy lately trying to keep up with beach changes.  That is a good thing.  Since October we've actually had some erosion and a few periods of improved beach hunting conditions.  It has been better than all summer by a large amount and better than at least the previous winter or two.  I had to do a lot of checking around to keep up with it all

I didn't get around to posting many finds lately.  Above are a few miscellaneous finds from December. On the piece of copper is a small emerald and a spike.  There were some cobs found and other artifacts.  I'll try to post some of those soon.

Yesterday afternoon I checked around and the beaches and those that I saw didn't look very good.

Monday Afternoon.

There was no erosion on this beach.  Notice the seaweed.

Frederick Douglas Beach. Monday Afternoon.

A few days ago this beach had tons of new sand piled up on the front beach. Then one morning the new sand had a small cut, which barely scratching the surface of the new sand.  Shortly after that sometime, much of the new sand got moved.  Now the beach looks more normal again.

At the top of the slope in front of the cliff is a bunch of shells, many of which got covered by one of the two most recent high tides. You can see a new layer of sand just a few inches thick that washed up during a recent high tide.  It partly covered many of the shells and some of the sea weed.  Sometimes you can see signs of how a beach developed over a period of days.  This is one of those cases.

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Here is another important find by an amateur treasure hunter.  Detectorists contribute a lot of important finds.

A close up of some of the jewellery and ingots of a significant Viking Hoard found near Watlington, in Oxfordshire, England as they are displayed at the British Museum in London, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015. The hoard contains 186 coins, seven items of jewellery and 15 ingots of precious metal. The items include rare coins from era of King Alfred the Great (871-899) and King Ceolwulf II (874-79) when the kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex fought the invading 'Great Heathen Army' also known as the great Danish army, in the late 800's.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Here is the link to the entire article.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/viking-hoard-found-in-field-sheds-light-on-englands-origins/ar-AAgf9hq?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UP97DHP

Thanks to William K. for sending the link.

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We're going to have several days of moderate surf ( mostly 2 - 4 foot) and southeast winds.  That won't do much good.  Still I'm encouraged about the rest of the winter.  I think it looks promising.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net