2/7/19 Report - 14th Century Sword Found. Waterways Book. Ingots From the Keys. Bigger Surf Coming.

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Sword Found in Denmark
Source: See TheLocal.dk link below.

A plumber and a machine operator in Aalborg made a sensational discovery when they discovered an intact and well-preserved sword while at work on Tuesday..

Kenneth Nielsen, an archaeologist from the museum, examined the 1.1 metre-long sword and quickly concluded it was of 14th-century Medieval origin.

The sword was found in ground on top of the oldest layer of paving on Algade, one of the northern city’s central streets...

Here is the link.

https://www.thelocal.dk/20190206/danes-pull-medieval-sword-from-ground-in-aalborg-street

Here are a couple fellows that turn up a 14th Century sword without even a metal detector.  There is a lot out there to be found.  

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Gaylen C. wrote the following about the Waterways and Byways of the Indian River Lagoon book that I mentioned yesterday.

The book "Waterways and Byways of the Indian River Lagoon" is available at 2 Indian River County Libraries. There are 2 copies at IRC Main Library, 1 circulating (currently checked out), and 1 held in for the reference section. There are also 2 copies available at the North Branch in Sebastian. Those both appear to be available for circulation.Pretty expensive on Amazon. Barnes & Noble had the best price I saw...

Gaylen.

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I received an email from someone wondering why I seem so unimpressed with the Oak Island finds.  The answer is very simple: they aren't very impressive.  The finds are nothing more than what I would expect from any similar island having a so much history that has been turned upside down and searched for centuries.  I've not seen any part of the Ark of the Covenant or anything like that yet.  So far, the stories are a lot bigger than the finds.

Back in the day, big land finds were usually kept secret.  They weren't produced for TV.  One day some forty years ago, for example, I was sitting in a metal detector shop waiting for the tide to turn, and through the side door came a couple of guys struggling to with some large ingots.  At the time, I was told the ingots were lead.  I knew better than that, and later I learned the whole story.  They were silver ingots dug on a land site in the Florida Keys by a fellow I got to know better over the years when I was hunting down south.  That kind of thing was not as uncommon as you would think.  If you do some research, you'll read of other finds like that.

Just look at the story at the top of this post.  Two fellows working on a street or something pulled out a 14th Century sword.  I post those kinds of stories almost everyday.  The point is that there is a lot out there to be found.

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The only reason I talked about Oak Island the past couple of days, is that I received emails on the subject.

Did you know that when I started blogging, my first blog was not about treasure hunting?  When I started this blog it just took off.  Now there are over 1.5 million hits on the hit counter, and more than 2 million page views, and all without any PR or promotion.  

It still looks like we will get a bigger surf this weekend.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

It looks like Sunday will be the peak.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net