6/23/20 Report - Historical Treasure Coast Images From Wabasso, Vero and St. Lucie. A Few Finds.

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Very Round Ball-Shape Object Found Yesterday.

Here are some finds I picked up yesterday.  I don't know what the ball-shaped object might be.  It looks a lot like a cannon ball, but I'll have to do some cleaning and investigate that.

The bottles below are embossed Coca Cola and Stuart Bottling Works bottles.  Both had a lot of shells on them.  The Coke is from Washington, DC.  I think that is the first I got from there.

Embossed Coca Cola and Stuart Bottling Works Bottles.

I've been able to find some information on the Stuart Bottling Works, but don't think I ever found out what they were putting in those bottles.  I'd guess soda or mineral water.

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The Sea Mist, Wabasso Beach.

Postcard Image Submitted by JamminJack

Yesterday I mentioned using old postcards for research. JamminJack said, I used post cards for research for a long time. Years ago, I donated my collection to Historical Society. It made me feel rewarded knowing future researchers will have access to them.

Below were several used for my research for 1715 Fleet and Treasure Coast. They are accessible online through MyFlorida site. 

This photo was taken before development of Wabasso beach. Check the cars and see if you can figure out the time frame.  

The title reads...

The Sea Mist, Wabasso Beach.

Back then Vero and Wabasdo were one beach. Confuses researchers when reading older articles on wrecks found, etc. 

Do you know exactly where it was?

Penn Wood Court

Postcard Image Submitted by JamminJack

About this one, Jack said, ... Pennwood Court, now Pennwood Motel. Kip Wagner helped with the construction of the motel.

Sexton's Motel Resort.

Postcard Image Submitted by JamminJack.

...Sexton's motel/resort. He was known for taking his guests across the Indian Lagoon to areas where treasure was being found.

St. Lucie State Museum.

3rd image is the building that later became Seal Museum at Pepper Park. This was built after treasure was being found in the Ft. Pierce area. I remember going in this museum.

Thanks to Jack for those images and descriptions. 

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From DJ...

Your June 22 blog reminded my of a search I could not complete. I found this reference to a casino (highlighted for you) and have been unable to locate the site of the old Casino. The only other reference was an advertisement I found once. I would imagine it would be directly across the Indian River as the barrier island was was only accessible by boat at that time. But thats a large area and many uncertain facts remain. Lots of development since them and most artifacts would likely be covered up by now or in the Indian River under sand and silt, anyway good to think about.

DJ also sent the following image of a great research tool.

Thanks DJ.

Can anyone tell us where the Fort Pierce casino was? I only have a vague recollection that I once knew about it.

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The low tide was nice and low yesterday.  The surf is still small.

Tropical depress Four is off the New England coast.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

5/20/19 Report - Treasure Lore of the Jensen and Sewall's Point Areas. Pirate Don Pedro Gilbert. Bottle Finds.

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Source: Trial of the Twelve Spanish Pirates of the Schooner Panda, a Guinea Slaver

The Jensen and Sewall's Point area has been very much neglected in treasure lore.  There are many scattered rumors as well as finds and documented history, but the area hasn't received near the attention that has been focused on some other areas.  I'm amazed that one of Frank Hudson's books that lists 133 Florida treasure shipwrecks completely skips the area between Jupiter and Fort Pierce, for example.   It definitely deserves more attention than it receives.

A couple days ago I posted a photo of a cannon ball that was found in the Jensen area.  SW sent me the following email in response.

I am not surprised at the cannonball. I know of a small hand cannon found in a yard on Sailfish Point. There was mention by a mid 19 Century survey team of ruins in the Jenson area. I know the location but have never been granted permission to hunt. I believe it was a pirate hideout. It is also known ships used the river to bleach their sails. I have not been out for over a year due to a job change, less free time. I read the blog daily. Like you say there are many forms of treasure hunting. I still treasure hunt, just a different kind. I also have enough items to research probably the rest of my life. I have several fantastic sites I know of, some with maps. Just can't get permission to hunt. Maybe someday I will do a book, I tried a blog just do not have the dedication it takes. Best hunting to all. SW.

In this blog I've posted about Pirate Don Pedro Gilbert, who gave his name to Gilbert's Bar. If you want to research it, you should know that his name is sometimes spelled differently. In my 1/13/13 post, I gave a link to a free ebook about his trial (See photo above.)

I also remember once posting about a kid in a canoe finding a musket barrel at Indian Riverside Park, but I can't seem to find that post now.  If you can find it, please let me know.

On an old map there is an area on the river near Gilbert's Bar that is marked something like Bleech Yarde.  That is probably the same one that SW referred to.  I can't find the map right now either.

There is a TV show that I've seen a few times that shows Brent and Jonah and another fellow or two magging for a wreck off Jensen Beach.  At the end there was a find.  If I remember that one correctly, it was a sword hilt.

I'm having brain overload, I guess.

Then there are the middens at Mount Elizabeth and Mount Pisgah, and the remnants of a coquina building thought to be a pirate hangout.

But there is much more than that.  There was a novel written by a local author who conducted a lot of research and had maps and documentation of tunnels and gold at Sewall's Point.

There is also the story about a motel worker and maintenance man at an old motel that no longer exists that was located just north of the current Jensen Beach park who found a box or barrel of gold after a storm.

All that said, it is a very historic area with a lot of treasure lore.

Here is a little of the history of Sewall's Point.

http://sewallspoint.org/community/history/

 I just recalled another book by Frank Hudson that does place several found and buried treasures around that area the St. Lucie Inlet area.  The title is something like Buried Treasures of Florida's East Coast.

You can't put much faith in Frank Hudson, even though I mentioned him a couple times today.  His reputation for accuracy is not great.   I first mentioned him to illustrate how that area of the Treasure Coast hadn't received a lot of attention.

That isn't everything, of course.   I just listed the first things that I thought of.

Long ago I put together my own list derived from numerous sources.  

I  just found the printouts, but am not going to go through all of that now.

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Yesterday I posted some pictures of three Waterman's ink bottles that I found.  Here is another older one.  It is a two oz. bottle for no. 6 ink.

Waterman's Ink Bottle

Two Views.

Since I don't get many chances to metal detect anymore, I do some eye-balling when I get the urge to go hunting.  Last night I found two embossed Coca Cola bottles, which is what I was hoping to find, however they weren't as old or as valuable as what I hoped to find.

One was a Fort Pierce and the other was from Avon Park, which I think is a new one for me.

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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

2/1/19 Report - Spanish Coins, Cannon Ball and Various Other Recent Finds From the Treasure Coast.

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Recent Beach Finds.

Submitted by Jonah M.

I am receiving photos of finds from the past few days.  The finds above were submitted by Captain Jonah Martinez who said, This pic is everything found together not excluding the cannonball. All the different size balls are neat. Lots of melted lead, musketballs, tacks, nails, piece of a broken silver buckle, 2 silver coins, ring I’m not sure if it’s silver but looks close. And a 9 lbs cannonball. A good time with some friends. 

Beach Erosion Where Finds Were Made.

Photo by Jonah M.

Jonah said after they found some good erosion.  Conditions remained favorable so they kept checking that location and some other beaches.

Here is another view of the finds.

Coins and Finds

Photo by Jonah M.

And here is the 9 pound cannon ball find.  Jonah commented on that being an interesting recovery.

Cannon Ball Find.

Photo by Jonah M.

Thanks Jonah.

I figure that the Treasure Coast is about a hundred miles of beach.   A lot of my focus has been on a few locations, but other places eroded too.

Joe D., for example, hit Juno on Wednesday before hitting John Brooks on Thursday.

Juno Beach Wednesday

Photo by Joe D.

He found the following items there.

Finds Made by Joe D. at Juno Beach.

I've heard of hunts from various other places as well, but that is all I'm going to post today.

I've also been in conversation with a long-time diver for Seafarer Exploration Corp., and expect to be posting more on the "Inca" funerary mask some time before long.

I'm starting to feel better, but I've lost eight pounds in fewer days. At that rate, I'll soon fit into my old wet suit again someday.

That is all for now,

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/17/18 Report - Reviewing Some of the Neat Treasure Coast Finds of the Summer of 1918.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspo.com.

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Silver Frame Found by Grant, Diver on the Bottomline
Photo by Captain Jonah Martinez

Before all the storm activity I was going to look back at some of the find's made on the Treasure Coast his summer.  It was a slow summer, but there were some great finds.

Among the top finds were those made by the salvage crews.  I posted a photo of the silver frame found by Grant and the crew of the Bottomline.  That is a very unique and significant discovery.

Author and researcher Laura Strolia provided this blog with some excellent research on the object.  She said it is probably a retablo associated with St. John.

Here is the link to that post.

http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2018/08/81218-report-research-on-amazing-2018.html

This wasn't the only find made by the crew of the Bottomline.  I also showed a nice silver candlestick bottom, silver cob and olive jar shard found by those guys.

There were beach finds made by individual detectorists too.  One of my favorite beach finds was the cannon ball that was hidden in a conglomerate.  That was found by Fred B.

Here is that link.

http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2018/08/82318-report-big-surprise-found-in.html

There was also a gold nugget found on a Treasure Coast beach by Duane C.

Here is that link.

http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2018/08/gold-nugget-recently-found-on-treasure.html

I've found gold nuggets on Treasure Coast shipwreck beaches in the past.  This one looked different, but that was something that isn't found every day.

I probably forgot or missed a lot of great finds.  If you have Treasure Coast find from this summer that you want me to post, send a photo and description.

My personal favorite finds this year were not found on a beach.  A 1914 ten-dollar gold coin in excellent condition and over twenty silver dollars were found, along with a bunch of other older coins.  That helped ease the frustration of not getting out to the beach very much.

I was going to post more today but am tired of trying to work with a messed up computer.

There isn't any significant tropical weather to watch now.  The surf will be around two or three feet for most of this week.

A fellow up north got killed by a shark.

Florence is still dumping rain on North Carolina and other northern states.

I heard from some of the guys up in North Carolina that hunt the treasure beaches up there.  There will undoubtedly be some good finds made up that way.

Pray for those who had flooding and damage.

Thanks to the many volunteers who helped the residents.

That is all for now.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/25/18 Report - "Copy" Treasure Coins, Iron Conservation, Hunger Stones Appeared.

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I was researching a token and ran into a forum where a lady from Florida posted these photos and said her grand daughter found the coin on her way to school and wondered what it was.

To the right you can see the word "COPY"  on the coin (upside down).

Many reproductions or fakes will be marked like that, but many will not.  Sometimes the mark is small, inconspicuous or worn off.  I've shown examples of that in the past.

On the same topic, the coin that I originally showed on 8/21/18 and again yesterday, the person who found it took it to a pawn or jewelry shop as I suggested and had it tested.  It was found, as we suspected, that it did not test to be either silver or gold.

Concerning the cannon ball that was recently found by Fred B., it should be properly conserved.  Iron that has been in salt water will need to be soaked in pure water until the salts leach out.   I neglected to tell Fred that.  Thanks to Scott C. for reminding me.   I sent Fred an email right after I got Scott's email.  Hopefully Fred knew to do that, but for all of you, if you don't properly conserve iron objects, they will fall apart.

The best resource on how to conserve objects is the TAMU Conservation Manual.  Here is the link.

http://nautarch.tamu.edu/CRL/conservationmanual/ConservationManual.pdf

I know it is long and detailed, but it has all the information you will need to conserve almost any type of object.  No body wants to see a favorite find fall apart.  It is worth doing it right.

You saw the cannon ball, but Fred has another conglomerate that shows parts of a lead sheet and a spike.  Would anyone be able to do an x-ray to see what else might be in there.  Fred is considering not opening this one, but doesn't know what else might be in it.

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Just yesterday  I posted about an old path that was revealed by a severe drought.  Here is something even more interesting that was revealed by a drought.

Hunger Stones Revealed by Drought.
Source: See Apnews.com link below.

Due to this summer’s drought in Central Europe, boulders known as “hunger stones” are reappearing in the Elbe River.

The low water levels in the river that begins in the Czech Republic then crosses Germany into the North Sea has exposed stones on the river bed whose appearances in history used to warn people that hard times were coming.

Over a dozen of the hunger stones, chosen to record low water levels, can now be seen in and near the northern Czech town of Decin near the German border.

The oldest water mark visible dates to 1616. That stone, is considered the oldest hydrological landmark in Central Europe, bears a chiseled inscription in German that says: “When you see me, cry.”

Here is the link.

https://apnews.com/9512be71cc8f40a7b6e22bc991ef2c6c

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No storm or big changes in beach conditions yet.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/23/18 Report - Big Surprise Found in Conglomerate: Cannon Ball.

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Cannon Ball Partially Uncovered in Conglomerate.
Find and photo by Fred B.

You know how it is when you get a signal that reads out as iron and it sounds big and deep and you pass it up?  Just junk, you think to yourself.  Or maybe you had iron discriminated out and didn't hear it at all and wonder why your not finding anything. This is the kind of thing you could be missing.

Fred B. dug this conglomerate about three weeks ago.  He is what e said about it.

A very heavy conglomerate that was about 12 inches down at low tide. After driving around with it in the back of my car for a while, I decided to start dissolving the shells and sand with muriatic acid to see what was there. Well did I ever get a shock when a cannon ball started to appear, which just goes to show, you never know what you are going to find in those conglomerates.

Conglomerate As It Was Dug.

And here is the cannon ball after it was completely removed.

Cannon Ball Removed From Conglomerate.

Super find Fred!  Congratulations, and thanks for sharing.

There is still a lot to be found.  This is one fine example.

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On 8/21 I posted a coin and wanted to see what you thought it was.  I'll give you one more day to send me your comments.

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There aren't any storms yet, and there are no big change in beach conditions yet.  

You can see from today's post that if you are willing to work for it, there are still good finds to be made.

Happy hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

7/18/17 Report - Tropical Storm Don. Ancient Hoard Found in Spain. Live Cannon Ball Found.

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Predicted Path of Tropical Storm Don.
Source:  nhc.noaa.gov

The big news for me is that we now have a named Tropical Storm.  It is named Don.

While it looks like Don will stay south, it could turn north, or maybe go through the Gulf and come back at us.

There is also another tropical disturbance behind (East of) Don.  That one now has a thirty percent chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours.

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Hoard of Coins Found in Spain.
Source: See thelocal link below.

A treasure of gold and silver ancient Roman coins has been found at a mining site in Huelva, southern Spain.

The discovery is of "incalculable value and a milestone in the archeology of this mining area," according to the archeologists from Atalaya Mining, the company running the mine who found it. The discovery was reported by local newspaper Huelava Spain.

The 40 or 50 coins found, which date from the 2nd century AD, according to a report in La Informacion, are said to be from the era of Nero and Trajan.

"It is a discovery of great beauty that comes to contribute data to our knowledge of RioTinto, that was the great mine of the Roman Empire," Luis Iglesias, director of archeology at Atalaya Mining, told El Pais....

Here is the link.

https://www.thelocal.es/20170706/milestone-treasure-of-ancient-roman-coins-found-at-mining-site

Unless Don or the other system heads our way, it looks like we'll have a one to two foot surf on the Treasure Coast for a week or two.  We have some good tidal variation though.


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Explosive Cannon Ball Found
Source: See CBC link below.

A cannonball fired by the British during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 has been unearthed at a building site in Old Quebec.

The rusted, 90-kilogram projectile was unearthed during excavation work last week at the corner of Hamel and Couillard streets and still contained a charge and gunpowder.

The work crew that found the ball picked it up and gathered around it for photographs, unaware that it was still potentially explosive.

Municipal authorities were contacted, and archeologist Serge Rouleau was called in.

Rouleau brought the cannonball back to his home, and noticed it still contained a charge...

Here is the link for more on that story.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/cannon-ball-quebec-city-1.4202559

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I recorded some detector signals and was going to insert them in a post.  I couldn't figure out how to do that on blogspot.  Maybe I'll get it figured out some day.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

2/15/17 Report - History of Anchors. The Florida Shore. Lost Cannon Ball. Fact Checking Pre-Columbian New World Maps Article.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Source: See link below.

I received a number of emails the past few days and received some good information.  Brian B. sent me a link to a Master's Thesis on the history and development of the English anchor.  It provides a lot of good information, including some good information on Spanish anchors too.  If you find an anchor and want to identify it, or if you are simply interested in history and nautical things, you'll want to browse this thesis.  The title is The History and Development of English Anchors Circa 1550 to 1850, by Harold Jobling.  Below is a brief excerpt describing the contents.

You'll also find a good section on terminology and of course a good bibliography.

Here is the link.

http://nautarch.tamu.edu/pdf-files/Jobling-MA1993.pdf

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Brian also sent a link to a useful book, Living With The East Florida Shore, by Pilkey et al.

Here is one brief excerpt from the online preview.

You might want to look at the table of contents and browse through that one too.  

Thanks to Brian B. 

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I also received the following email.

My name is Kurt R...   I'm recently new to metal detecting. And am really enjoying your posts.  Lately you have been talking about mistakes and regrets.  About a month ago when we had that last storm that exposed the sandbags at turtle trail I had just got there and was having trouble with a failing coil... I had a large target and i;m pretty sure it was a cannonball in my haste to fix my detector i threw it up on the beach and fiddled with my detector for a bit when i went to grab the object it was gone.. If you could please post and see if anyone reading has it and would like to return it.. Best find i've ever found lost again? I should have taken it right to my truck but i was frustrated..  

Sincerly,
Kurt R...

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I  posted a link to an article on Pre-Columbian maps of the New World in my 2/8 post.  Dan C. provided some links showing that the author, Dr. Thomspon, is not very credible.  

Here is what Dan wrote about that.

... Unfortunately, in treasure hunting and archaeology (and history), we have to be on the lookout for "fringe" science and lunacy.

As it turns out, this Dr Thompson has no qualifications in the field - his Phd is in some unrelated field, BUT, qualifications aside, even non-Phd folks deserve respect if they make sense.  This guy is a fraud and lunatic through and through:

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/gunnar-thompson-claims-to-have-identified-medieval-scottish-lime-kiln-near-newport-tower

Here he claims to "authenticate' a so-called ancient Chinese world map that has been clearly dismissed as bad forgery, a hoax:

http://www.gavinmenzies.net/Evidence/12-dr-gunnar-thompsons-opinion-of-the-1418-map/
And the real story about the hoax map:

http://www.1421exposed.com/html/wade_challenge.html

There have been a lot of people who write books to make a living off of the gullibility of others, and he is one of them.

Keeping an open mind  is healthy. We should not blindly follow assumptions by others who claim to "know".

Thanks much for the research Dan.

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I very much appreciate the emails I receive and want to thank everybody.  Your input helps me a lot, as you can tell from today's post.

I hope your wife bought you a new detector for Valentine's Day.

We still have more one and two foot surf days coming this week.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

6/8/15 Report - Treasure Coast Salvage Crew Making Finds. Cultural Wreck Site Formation Processes in Maritime Archaeology.

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Cannon Ball Found by Bill B. 
On the Salvage Vessel Capitana..

While finds for beach hunters along the Treasure Coast have been meagre, the salvage crews have been doing well.  Captan Jonah and the crew of the Capitana have made some nice finds.  This cannon ball is one of those.  They also just  found an olive jar bottom and musket ball.  They are on the Treasure Trail.

Other Treasure Coast salvage crews are making finds as well.  Maybe I'll have some photos from them soon.

I wonder what most beach hunters would do if they got a signal from a cannon ball like that?  I'd bet most would never dig it.

Thanks to Captain Jonah and the crew of the Capitana for sharing with us.

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A couple of weeks ago or so I referred to a couple of academic papers about shipwrecks and old abandoned ships in northwest Florida.  I told you to check the references at the end of such papers.  One of the references that I found in one of those papers was about cultural site formation processes in maritime archaeology.  It was written by M. Gibbs and is found in The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (2006).

Here is the link.

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Gibbs/publication/227714075_Cultural_Site_Formation_Processes_in_Maritime_Archaeology_Disaster_Response_Salvage_and_Muckelroy_30_Years_on/links/53e0ad390cf2d79877a4deeb.pdf

This article might not seem very relevant at first to some of you, but if you read it and really think about it, there are some very practical and useful ideas that you will get from it.  If you have some good experience hunting shipwreck items, I think you'll benefit by reading this and mulling it over.

I haven't taken the time to really organize this post well yet.  I've put off posting on this for some time, hoping to get it digested and better organized, but that hasn't really happened yet.  I'm afraid that it would take me a lot more time, so I'm going to go ahead and post a bit of it hoping that you can take it from there for yourselves.

First off, here are some useful terms from that paper.

I don't know how often detectorists think about flotsam. Maybe not enough.  Prior to a wreck items can be jettisoned.  Some will float, including maybe crates or containers containing items that would not float on their own.  Those items might end up hundreds of miles from the wreck site.  They can be jettisoned long before the ship sinks and then float with the currents.

Other items could be tied to a raft or otherwise buoyed with the hope of later recovery.

I suppose it would normally be near impossible to predict where some of those types of things might end up, unlike items that sink more quickly.

Here is an interesting figure from the Gibbs paper.

I won't get into detail on this.  I'm just not prepared to do that yet.  I suggest going to the original article if you want more detail or explanation.

The above figure diagrams several points and processes leading to the eventual observed seabed distribution of a wreck and associated items.

There are what might be called catastrophic wrecks, which occur as a result of a crisis such as a hurricane, for example, and then there are wrecks that are more controlled or intentional, such as running a leaking ship aground.  And then there are abandoned ships such as some of those in Northwest Florida that I mentioned  a couple of weeks ago.

Wrecks are often salvaged at various different times and to different extents.

Here are four types of materials that would be associated with a shipwreck.  They are also listed in a figure in the Gibbs paper.

Cargo and Contents: Non-fixed items not associated with the mechanical operation of the ship and which were meant to be removable, including the ship’s boats and life-rafts. 

Fixtures and Fittings: Minor fixed items, fittings, yards, chains, ropes, anchors and cannon, minor mechanical items and equipment. 

Minor Structural: Items not normally removed, but whose removal would not compromise the integrity of the hull, such as bulkheads, decks, masts, superstructure, major mechanical items and equipment. 

Major Structural: Elements of the ship whose removal would affect the integrity of the vessel, including hull planking, ribs and other structural items.

If you consider the various stages that Gibbs presents in detail, you might have a better understanding of a wreck site.

I was thinking of two important variables that might be simply described as cost, or risk, and value.

The first items to be salvaged would be high value items that are relatively easy to salvage with little risk.

The higher the risk, though, the less would be salvaged.  Deep sea wrecks are little salvaged, while wrecks in shallow water might be extensively salvaged immediately after the wreck.  The Wedge wreck off of Pepper Park is an example of a wreck that was well salvaged relatively soon after the wreck and then picked over years later until little remains.

When the opportunity occurs less valuable and items that are more difficult to salvage are salvaged.  That can occur over a period of centuries as we all know.

Both catastrophic wrecks and abandoned wrecks will progressively deteriorate due to both natural and human causes.

I didn't take the time to put this together well, I just threw few things out there for you.  I just put enough out there to give you some idea if you might want to go ahead and study the original paper for yourself.

As I think about this and get it digested, I'll might expand on this post in the future.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

4/1/15 Report - Cannon Ball Found On Beach. Cannon Fuses. Drained Lake. Easter To Bring Bigger Surf.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of TreasureBeachesReport.blogspot.com.

Granite Cannon Ball From Spanish Armada
Found On Beach
Source of photo: article link immediately below.

This cannon ball was found on a beach in Ireland by a man out for a walk.  He said, it was just sitting up there waiting to be found.
We’ve had a number of items discovered recently because of the winter storms with them washing up then on the spring tide ...  It really was as simple as that, I’ve been walking on that beach all my life and never found anything before, it’s quite incredible.

The cannon ball is only 80mm in diameter. 

   

 Four wrecks from the Spanish Armada sank just off shore.


Here is the link for the rest of the article.

http://www.thejournal.ie/spanish-armada-cannonball-2022878-Mar2015/

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Mid 1800s Cannon Fuses and Percussion Caps
From the 17th Sedwick Treasure Auction catalog now online.

I always like to see something different.  It is good to be familiar with things like this in case you ever dig one up.

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What Was Uncovered When A Lake Was Drained.

This is the type of thing that makes me drool.

Here is the link for more about that.

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/03/31/drained-lake-tapps-in-washington-revealed-its-secrets/21159758/?ncid=webmail6

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August Beach. 
It looks like it but
April Fools!  Its really this morning.

The Treasure Coast beach conditions now are more like late summer beach conditions.  Really poor!   Sand is piled up on the beach fronts almost everywhere.

Notice the bathtub-like shallow water in the picture above.  Tomorrow is supposed to be a one-foot surf again.  That makes for very easy water hunting.  Too bad there is so much sand.

Notice the pipes at the back of the beach in the above picture.  I think they began this project and or some reason quit for a while, but it looks like they will start up again before long.  I don't know what that is all about.

Below is a quick video of one Treasure Coast treasure beach this morning.

I did see a lot of shells along the high tide mark at one beach.

On Easter Sunday the surf is supposed to increase.  The prediction is for something in the range of 4 - 7 feet.  That will be a very welcome change.   It is supposed to last for a few days too! 

Tomorrow will be a good chance to water hunt, but what I'm really hoping for is some good surf action that hits the beach just right.

I'll get back to talking more about peripheral sensitivity in the near future.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net

4/17/14 Report - Another Bunch of Finds, Buttons and Coins, Cannon Ball, Semiole War Items, Surf & Erosion

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

As you've been seeing from some of my recent posts this month, some guys have really been cleaning up with the artifacts and silver coins.

Great US Coat Button Find
Find and photo by SW.

SW has been detecting a Seminole War era site where he found all the following listed items.  And he says there is still more left to be found.

Here is a listing of his finds.

Period finds; 1 Dragoon button, 1 Artillery button, 1 Great Coat button, 1 unmarked flat button, 1 4 hole button, 1 brass clip, 1 Jeweled screw, 3 copper nails / tacks, 2 round balls, 2 other bullets, 1 2 1/2 inch Iron ring, 1 8 inch iron ring (both badly deteriorated) and other unidentified items.




Modern items; 1 silver Quarter 1948,
2 silver dimes 1952-54,
3 wheat pennies 38, 42, 57,
1 George Junior Republic token 1946.

Clad; 7 Quarters, 11 dimes, 4 nickels oldest 1947, 48 pennies.



18 Pound Cannon Ball
Photo by SW

He said, A ton of trash was removed,   I only hunted a small portion of the lot. I know better items are there.  Good luck to the next guy.   

Thanks for sharing SW.  Great finds!

And some people think there is nothing left to be found. 

SW also said,
I acquired this cannon ball on the 7th.  The story I got, it was collected by a dock contractor from the Dry Tortugas. The book, out of the blue, I ordered on the 4th!! I think my next book will be on Gold Cobs!!! The guy with the cannons should contact me maybe we can identify the age and country of origin. The Ball is an 18 pounder unknown age. ...  I am researching a pirate site for my next project.


As I've been showing there are still good sites out there if you do your research and get permission.



I went out to take a look at the beach this morning.  Most of the cuts that I showed yesterday had already disappeared.  The sea was rough.  The water was coming up onto the flat beach at high tide.

We had the expected higher high tide.  The trouble is that the wind also changed direction and the water was now hitting the beach pretty much from the East.  

Wind and water direction, which are correlated, are among the most important factors for predicting erosion.   Surf height and tides are also included, but in my opinion the angle that the water hits the beach is most important.

Just the other day when we got the cuts that I showed, there was very little surf.  Now the surf is bigger and the erosion mostly all but disappeared.

 

This is what the water looked like at one 1715 Fleet beach this morning.  Pretty rough.

Later today the surf is supposed to be bigger and then decreasing tomorrow.  It looks like the wind will be coming more from the South, which won't be any help.

Based upon what I saw today, I'm not expecting a beach conditions upgrade now.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net