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| Snipping submitted by Alberto S. |
Hurricane David was back in 1959. I came to Florida during that time.
If you look behind the people walking, you'll see a metal detector coil and scoop. You can't see the detectorist.
Notice the erosion control bags and cement blocks and the car or truck frame.
There are a lot of places where old cars ended up rusting away on the beach. There is one spot in Vero where cars fell onto the beach when a hurricane caused the collapse of a beach-side parking lot. The car frames were visible some years ago.
There are also car and truck frames in the lagoon. I've picked up parts off of model A and mode T Fords.
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Jack Myers, author of Knights' Gold, sent me a copy of that book. I don't usually comment on a book until I have read it through, but this time I can tell enough already to recommend it. It is meaty book of 498 pages with lots of references and notes.
Here is a brief excerpt from the preface.
This is the story of an immense, tantalizing golden hoard - today worth many millions of dollars, and of the daring, ambitious, yet reckless and often ruthless people who buried those 5000 + highly valued gold coins in the years 1856.
The fantastic, mysterious "Baltimore gold hoard" was not discovered until almost 80n years after its pre-Civil War burial. Now, some 80 years after the gleaming pot of gold was unearthed it is time for the full, sho0cking trutht about the coins to finally be revealed.
The hoard was found by two fatherless poor teenage urban boys digging in their basement in the depression era. The book tells what happened to the gold, including the inevitable court cases, as well as the various theories on where the gold came from.
https://www.amazon.com/Knights-Gold-Baltimore-Confederate-organization/dp/1539896560
Jack is currently investigating another interesting treasure and contacting me concerning that project and was kind enough to send me a copy of his book.
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During a 1996 excavation, UWF archaeologists discovered an ancient armored Spanish breast plate — worn by conquistador Tristan de Luna's army in 1559 — at the site of the first Emanuel Point I ship wreck near Pensacola. The breast plate was found in the stern of the ship during one of several excavations conducted since initial discovery was made in 1992.
Centuries underwater left the breast plate completely covered in marine growth. All the original metal was gone as the iron had been converted into iron sulfide. But concretion preserved the shape of the breast plate and allowed archaeologists to identify it...
Here is the link for the rest of the article.
https://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/2018/10/31/uwf-archaeologists-make-new-emanuel-point-artifact-discoveries/1818306002/
The iron was completely dissolved, but the armor is being reconstructed.
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It looks like there will be no change in the surf or beach conditions for a few days.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
