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| Do You See What Was Exposed By the Erosion. |
Look just below the grass and weeds near the center of the picture. You will see a box of WWII pistols that was found by a German beach-comber after some recent erosion.
A German man and his father found more than seashells along the beach after a storm in their coastal Baltic Sea town last week. Alexander Ladwig, 23, was out for a walk with his pop when he found a recently unearthed box in the sand that contained 30 handguns, reports German news outlet Kieler Nachrichten. The find, near the town of Waabs in Schleswig-Holstein, was quickly collected by the notified local authorities and destroyed– but not before Ladwig had snapped a few images...
Here is the link that was submitted by Brian B.
https://www.guns.com/news/2019/02/21/german-beachcomber-finds-box-of-30-wwii-pistols-after-storm-photos?avad=55963_a1521345d&utm_source=AvantLink&utm_campaign=41227&utm_med
That is a good picture that illustrates how things can be exposed by erosion. In this case, the item was not deeply buried.
Thank Brian.
On some of the most popular Treasure Coast beaches, items in the dunes are often down a foot or foot and a half. Of course that varies from location to location.
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Interesting Curled Spike Find
Find and photo by John C.
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Large Staple.
Find and photo by John C.
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Yesterday I was talking about ship's fasteners and wondered why I hadn't found more clinched spikes considering how commonly they were used. There are several disparities that I've wondered about. Why I've found so few clinched spikes compared to straight spikes is one. Why silver rings are not found by salvagers on submerged wreck sites, as reported by top salvage guys, while they are rather routinely found on the beach. It could be that those found on the beach are not from the wrecks or the same time period, or there could be some other reason for the apparent disparity. Or why so many small denomination reales are found on the beach as compared to the larger proportion of larger denomination reales found on the submerged wreck sites. In my mind that one is easier to explain.
Some things are simply easier to find. And people tend to target some things more than others. People are often not as interested in iron objects and often discriminate them out of pass them over, for example.
Some things break down in the salt water and surf and disappear over time as compared to other things. The EOs that I've been talking about were iron and have almost dissolved. All that is left is the crust.
Here is an excerpt from the McCarthy book that I mentioned yesterday.
When you are talking about long time periods, the accumulated record of what is found will not be a completely accurate representation of what was originally there. Some things are dispersed, disappear, or for some other reason are disproportionately found.
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Here is another good resource on Spanish shipbuilding in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
https://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/~cbaisan/Florida/A_Plague_of_Ships_Spanish_Ships_and_Ship.pdf
Thanks to Dale J. for that link.
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It looks like we'll have a four foot surf for a few days next week.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
