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Here is the link for that story. |
| Showing Recovered Wedding Ring. Source: See link below. |
Sanitation workers dug through tons of trash to find this lady's lost ring.
http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/ny-sanitation-crew-finds-womans-lost-wedding-rings/story?id=43574824
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Not long ago I was hunting in the hills of West Virginia. While I was doing that I noticed several similarities to beach hunting.
It was very hilly. You can see that in the photo I showed in my 11/14 post.
There was a flat spot about a quarter of the size of a football field. It was down the hill from an old settlement, and I know that it was heavily used. There were certainly many thing lost there, yet I found almost nothing there but aluminum. Why? Because tons of leaves piled up and rotted there year after year for hundreds of years. The leaves were piled about a half a foot deep, then under that was partly rotted leaves, and under that very loose new soil. Anything of any age was deep, except for the stuff like aluminum foil, which remained on top of it all.
That flat area was very much like an area on a beach where the sand is very loose. The loose sand moves in and covers any stationary objects, just like the leaves covered more stationary objects on the flat spot.
That wasn't the only area that was similar to a beach area. They had heavy rain there last summer. The rain ran down some of the steeper areas and washed leaves and loose soil off the slope. The result is that some surface objects were removed with the top lighter soil. Some things were left behind though. That area was also very much like a beach in some ways.
You'll might remember my lengthy discussions on "trigger points" and "drop points." When the force of water is great enough some objects will be moved and others not moved. The same thing applies to hilly land. (For more on trigger and drop points, see my 8/30/15 post.)
The top soil and some objects got washed down over the slopes where the slope was great enough and the water flow forceful enough. It as on such a slope that I found the oldest coin (about 100 years old).
The same slope was very hard packed. That was because the looser soil was washed off with some objects. Whatever washed off the slope ended up at the bottom of the slope, whether that was a flat area or a gully.
I'm sure that if I could move a foot or more of soil, the flat area would produce a lot of older coins and things. As it was, the older materials were found on the slopes.
One way that that land was different from a beach is that there were roots and a lot of rocks. The roots and rocks held some of the items that would have been moved by the water.
Old bottles also washed out of the hillside along the gullies.
No matter whether you are on a beach or in the hills, I'm always happy to see erosion. Erosion can always uncover some older items. It also moves sand or soil that can cover up items.
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A six-thousand-year-old underwater site was mapped and artifacts recovered.
Here is the link to that interesting article.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/underwater-stone-age-settlement-haven-fishing-yields-mysterious-elk-antler-pick-axe-1591682
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We're going to have a small surf for a few days, but big tides, at least tomorrow.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net