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I always look for erosion or earth removal that occurs as a result of construction, but there are other kinds of changes that can reveal good old detecting areas. Here is an excerpt from an article that tells how an old pathway was discovered because of draught.
... Visitors will be able to see the excavation of the newly-exposed path, which follows a route walkers still use today, performed by a small team of archaeologists and volunteers on September 20 and 21.
The exceptionally hot and dry weather this summer caused scorching on the grass which led to the discovery of the path which could provide an insight into the history of the 2000-year-old forest, a former royal hunting forest....
The above photo shows a part of the path. Notice the more compact and lighter color earth towards the bottom of the photo. (I added the arrows.)Here is the link if you want to read more of that article.
http://www.dunmowbroadcast.co.uk/news/visitors-at-hatfield-forest-have-the-chance-to-see-a-newly-discovered-ancient-path-1-5662568
If you want to find good new metal detecting spots, you should realize that they are all around you. If you are a keen observer, you'll notice things that others won't.
Almost everywhere you go, people have been there before. They were there a few decades ago and centuries ago. If people spent much time in an area, the area will be permanently changed in some way. In the story of the newly discovered path, the earth was compacted, which also affects vegetation.
Sometimes the signs are hidden, and as in this story, it takes a change of some sort to reveal the signs. Very often it is erosion that exposes signs of the past. In recent days I also posted a article telling how the wildfires out west uncovered ancient camps. It doesn't matter if the changes are caused by man or nature, there might be good metal detecting clues exposed.
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You know those elongated coins that you can make out of pennies at Disney World or other tourist locations? Well, like with many things, there is a collectors club for them; TEC or The Elongated Collectors.
The web site is http://tecnews.org. They have a quarterly newsletter for those who join and also a new Facebook page.
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Mitch King was the first to offer a guess on the coin I posted on 8/21/18. He said, A real quick guess without any research is it's a copy of an 8 Escudo and was probably plated gold at one time?
That is the consensus. Congratulations Mitch!
You can clearly see two things on this coin - the mint mark and the denomination. The mint is Lima, and the denomination is 8. You can also see a P in the first column of the second row and an A in the last column. You can't see the date, but here is the trick.
A reale of that type should show the letters PLV SVL TR in the second row. An escudo would show P V A. Therefore, the design is that of a escudo - not a reale. But it doesn't look like it is gold. As Mitch suggests, the plating probably wore off.
The first fake I ever found was like that. It had the design of an escudo, but was not gold. On top of that, it was very heavily encrusted. I painstakingly removed the crust and and it took me quite a while to figure it out.
I should see if I can find my first fake. It might be the same.
This was many years ago and I didn't have the experience or reference resources that I have today. If I had only had it tested and found that it was a base metal, that would have answered the question more quickly, but I still had to free it from the crust.
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No storms or big changes in beach conditions.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
