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Joe D. sent me these photos along with the following email message.
Just wanted to show you what i saw and why i hunted South Beach Park the other day! This was the only beach i looked at that day that had both a mid beach cut, and a firm beach with shells and rocks! While i didn't spend a bunch of time there, at least i was able to locate some coins and such!
Also, the picture of Ft Pierce South Jetty Park shows a higher tide verson of what Gaylen C. Sent that you posted! I've hunted there before, but this time i noticed that MOST of the rocks that are exposed are not from lower beach erosion (older sand erosion) but from the fill that keeps eroding from the cliff! ( newer sand erosion) It is very rocky fill and can be deceiving, in that it looks older than it is when it runs out toward the ocean! I hope that makes sense! I know its hunted a lot, and i haven't found much there at all!
I was having few issues with my detector setup that day, and was wondering if it was hindering my hunt, or weather the combination of poor conditions, and the number of detectorists that hunt the area where some of the reason for so few finds! So I hunted a park near home with same setup to iron out the kinks! I was there about two hours and did ok, and fixed some issues! ( Pic) So my conclusion is that all factors are correct!...
Although the rocks are coming from the fill, they are from very old material. I think it was dug from the intercoastal near the port, but there is definitely some VERY old stuff in that fill.
I always recommend that you pay attention to what is being found and what is not being found. The first thing that jumps out to me is the lack of nickels.
I just read through Numismatic Archaeology of North America: a Field Guide by Akin, Bard and Akin, published 2016. It might be OK for an archaeology student, but it didn't provide any real revelations for me. There were a few interesting ideas, but it sure wouldn't be worth the purchase price, which is quite lofty. There wasn't much about actual sites, and nothing about the Spanish Colonial sites or the Treasure Coast shipwrecks. Most of the author's experience seemed to be related to shell money and Asian money found on the west coast of the United States. |
| Fort Pierce South Jetty Park. Photo by Joe D. |
I've posted a lot about the Fort Pierce South Jetty Park lately. While it is not a place where you will find a lot of treasure coins, it is interesting as an illustration of beach erosion. It erodes a lot! It seems like they renourish it all the time but it just keeps eroding.
Joe D. sent me these photos along with the following email message.
Just wanted to show you what i saw and why i hunted South Beach Park the other day! This was the only beach i looked at that day that had both a mid beach cut, and a firm beach with shells and rocks! While i didn't spend a bunch of time there, at least i was able to locate some coins and such!
Also, the picture of Ft Pierce South Jetty Park shows a higher tide verson of what Gaylen C. Sent that you posted! I've hunted there before, but this time i noticed that MOST of the rocks that are exposed are not from lower beach erosion (older sand erosion) but from the fill that keeps eroding from the cliff! ( newer sand erosion) It is very rocky fill and can be deceiving, in that it looks older than it is when it runs out toward the ocean! I hope that makes sense! I know its hunted a lot, and i haven't found much there at all!
I was having few issues with my detector setup that day, and was wondering if it was hindering my hunt, or weather the combination of poor conditions, and the number of detectorists that hunt the area where some of the reason for so few finds! So I hunted a park near home with same setup to iron out the kinks! I was there about two hours and did ok, and fixed some issues! ( Pic) So my conclusion is that all factors are correct!...
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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Park Photo by Joe D. |
There are two steps on this beach. This is the mid-beach cut that Joe referred to. The larger cliff is at the back of the beach.
Notice also the small wind blown sand ridges by the footprints. The ridges will run about perpendicular to the wind direction.
This beach isn't a good indicator beach. It will erode when there is very little other erosion on the Treasure Coast.
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| Rocks and Shells Near the Water Line. Photo by Joe D. |
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| Joe's Finds. |
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One of the more interesting points was about the various uses of money. Coins can be many things besides circulating currency. That discussion was interesting. A coin, as you know, can be sewn to clothing and used in fashion, or used as a votive or religious offering, and for various other purposes.
One thing they mentioned that caught my attention because I have long wondered how coins found on the beach get bent in half. I read that coins were sometimes bent as a superstitious way of changing ones luck. It could be that some were intentionally bent for that purpose, although I think there are ways that they can get bent by nature. I've mentioned that once or twice before.
As is often the case, the bibliography of the book is the biggest value of the book.
If you want to read about Treasure Coast treasure hunting in general, there is one book that I recommend above all others. It is The Rainbow Chasers Tricentennial Yearbook by T. L. Armstrong and Tommy Gore. It is published by Sigmum Ops. 240 jam packed 8.5 by 11 pages.
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Pirate Fest starts today at Veterans Memorial Park in Fort Pierce. It runs Feb. 2 through Feb. 4.
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... The FBI once sent a high-level official to Facebook, begging for some of its personal information — information on private citizens...
And now, besides having our phone numbers and addresses and birthdays and a list of our friends and our personal histories and our credit-card numbers (if we use it for Facebook “boosts”), as well as logging what we read and chat about, Zuckerberg’s company is ready to sell hardware with microphones and cameras that would be placed in your home. Meanwhile, both Facebook and Twitter send certain posts to target customers who they deem are extremists to counter their views....
Here is a link for the rest of that article.
http://spiritdaily.org/blog/commentary/little-big-brother
I don't use Facebook. I very much resent how companies such as Facebook and Google try to get as much of your information as they can. They don't need that second phone number, or any phone number for that matter, and they don't need your social security number unless you do a certain amount of business, but they'll get it if they can. If there is anything to resist these days, I would rank that as being one of the top ones.
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I don't expect any real change in beach conditions today. We are still having big tides.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
