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Detected this ring at Golden Sands Beach on March 19 with my Minelab Equinox 800. I took it to the Mel Fisher Treasure Museum and they said it looked “very interesting”. Back home here in Colorado my Jeweler just examined it and she said it’s silver and very old. Also it could have been cast from a mold as opposed to hammered. I detected all the beaches every day from Bonsteel to John Brooks from March 5 thru March 20 and this was the only thing of interest I found except clad coins and lead fishing weights. Met some nice people and had fun at the TCAS Hunt at Wabasso. Hope to be back next year!
It is very difficult to put a date range on these types of rings, but they are obviously old enough to be very heavily corroded, but that can happen in much less than three hundred years.
Without more information or perhaps some kind of inscription or something, I can't say any more than Richard has already been told.
The most experienced treasure diver on the Treasure Coast has said that no silver rings have been found on 1715 Fleet wrecks. We do, however, know that they have been archaeologically found on land sites of similar age, so it is difficult to ignore the possibility.
I wonder if they might be trade rings. They are generally small and thin and do not show any outstanding design work that would in any way suggest that they belonged to anyone of high status.
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| Corroded Old Silver Ring Treasure Coast Find Photo and find by Richard W. |
It is not uncommon for me to receive a photo of a heavily corroded small silver ring that was found on a Treasure Coast shipwreck beach. When found on one of the beaches where old shipwreck coins and items are found, it is natural to wonder if the ring came from a treasure wreck. After finding the ring shown above, Richard W. sent me the above photo with the following email.
It is very difficult to put a date range on these types of rings, but they are obviously old enough to be very heavily corroded, but that can happen in much less than three hundred years.
Without more information or perhaps some kind of inscription or something, I can't say any more than Richard has already been told.
The most experienced treasure diver on the Treasure Coast has said that no silver rings have been found on 1715 Fleet wrecks. We do, however, know that they have been archaeologically found on land sites of similar age, so it is difficult to ignore the possibility.
I wonder if they might be trade rings. They are generally small and thin and do not show any outstanding design work that would in any way suggest that they belonged to anyone of high status.
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I received a couple more emails on Terry's gold mystery item. That post received a lot of attention,
Sal G. thought Terry's gold mystery item could have be Incan. He pointed out the similarity between the gold mystery item and the gold pendants hanging on the Incan funerary mask shown below.
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| Picture of Incan Funerary Mask Submitted by Sal G. |
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| Closer View of Pendants. Submitted by Sal G. |
Bill K added these thoughts on the mystery object.
...One thing that came to mind when I saw pictures, was that there was a lot of contraband on those old wooden sailing ships and I wouldn't have put it past one of the crew to snitch some, pound it together and punch a hole through it, then tie around his/her neck with a leather strand and try to smuggle it back into Spain. Thus the crude workmanship and punched hole.
Thanks Sal and Bill.
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A lot of my recent posts have been very popular. I judge by the number of people that read them and also comments I received in emails.
Some topics attract a lot of readers, while other topics do not attract as many readers, they are deeply appreciated by some individuals.
My posts commenting on Oak Island attract more than the average number of readers, and I get nearly universal positive comments about those discussions. No matter what you think of the show, it gives me examples and illustrations that a lot of people are familiar with and provides a lot of sharp contrasts with my approach. If you read what I wrote yesterday and notice how I approach things,, I think you might be able to see some very basic differences.
Although I don't always know why a particular post gets a lot of readers and others do not, big finds are always popular, as are big changes in beach conditions.
There are some posts that are read by a huge numbers of people, and i don't know why. I suspect that they are picked up elsewhere. One of my all-time most popular posts was the post I published the day after I was interviewed by CNN. That naturally drove a lot of people to the blog.
On the other hand, there are some posts that I really like that aren't read by many people. Even though they are read by fewer people, they can be very meaningful to those people that relate to them in some special way, and I get emails telling me so.
When I started doing this blog I never thought I would have something to talk about everyday, but that hasn't been much of a problem. In fact right now I have about a hundred pages of content on my mind that might make good posts. In fact, I keep delaying some items.
When I started doing this blog I never thought I would have something to talk about everyday, but that hasn't been much of a problem. In fact right now I have about a hundred pages of content on my mind that might make good posts. In fact, I keep delaying some items.
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DJ sent the following tip.
... I use the fishing tide tables to scope out future high and low tides that may be good. This site has a handy “Tide Coefficient” that lets you look for a number 90 or higher - they also show the noon phase. You can choose the location - make sure it is for the ocean not river.
Thanks DJ,
For the next week the surf will be gradually decreasing from the two to three foot range down to about one foot.
The tides will be a bit higher.
Happy hunting,
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