2/18/20 Report - Double Lost and Found Ring Round by Detectorist. Salter's Eye Lotion: 1926. Bigger Surf.

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Class Ring Lost in Maine Found in Finland 47 Years Later.
Source: WDHD link below.

Here is detector find with a mystery that probably will never be solved.  And the story is evidently one of those lost and found (or stolen) and lost and found again stories

A Maine woman says her husband’s class ring lost nearly five decades ago was recently found by someone in Finland.

Debra McKenna said the ring was a gift that was given to her by her late husband in high school in 1973 when they started dating.

She had lost that ring one day at a department store in Portland.

“I set it on the side of the sink and when I went back – once I realized it was gone – I went back in and it was gone,” McKenna told 7NEWS.

Decades later she received a call from a classmate who said the ring was located in by someone Finland.

That person contacted the Morse High School alumni association who used the initials on the ring to match it with McKenna’s late husband Shawn.

The ring was apparently buried in 8 inches of dirt in a small European town.

A shipbuilder found the ring and used a metal detector to get it out.

McKenna said she got the ring in the mail last week from the shipbuilder.

No one knows how exactly the ring got there, but McKenna said her husband believed that everything happens for a reason.


It's anyone's guess how it got from Maine to Finland.

Thanks to Jorge Y. for the following link.

https://www.wptv.com/news/national/ring-lost-in-maine-found-in-finland-47-years-later

And here is where I found the photo of the ring and the above text. 
https://whdh.com/news/maine-woman-reunited-with-class-ring-that-she-lost-nearly-5-decades-ago/

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Yesterday I showed a Salter's Eye Lotion bottle, and asked if anyone had any relevant information on the product.  Susan B. found a listing from an issue of the 1926 Southern Democrat which proclaimed, Dr. Salters Eye Lotion – Relieves and cures sore and inflamed eyes. Helps the weak-eyed, cures without pain.  

So that gives an approximate date of 1926 on it.  

Here is the link.

https://www.blountcountian.com/articles/from-the-archives-448/

Thanks Susan.

Here are a three more entries from the 1926 archives.

“Stubby,” mascot of the AEF, dog hero of the World War and the most bemedaled and bedecked dog in all dogdom, has just been mounted as a monument to his own bravery, after his death. Stubby was reincarnated in plaster and his hide mounted over the cast. In the cast itself is a metal box containing Stubby’s ashes. (From national news)

Blount County Bank has installed new and up-to-date safe deposit boxes. The boxes are large size with double lock and steel plate front. They are held inside the electrically protected vault where no burglar dares attack them.

For economical transportation, the Chevrolet is smooth and powerful. The Touring or Roadster is $510, Four door sedan $735, Coach or Coupe, $645.

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The surf predictions are still looking promising for the weekend.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

The tides aren't very big now.

Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

12/14/19 Report - Treasure Coast Detectorist Returns 1970 Class Ring. Local Beaches. Huge Coin Hoard Goes on Display.

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Ring Found by Jerry P.

Photo submitted by Jerry P.

Here is a story about a detectorist who found a 1970 class ring (shown above) from Auburndale Alabama on the Treasure Coast and was able to locate the original owner. 

Same Ring Found by Jerry P. After Cleaning.

Photo submitted by Jerry P.

Here is how Jerry told the story.

While detecting along the treasure coast I pulled a class ring or what appeared to be a class ring covered in green crud. It took two days of cleaning before the ring finally revealed the schools name, graduation date and three very hard to read initials KEB. Not being a social media genius I asked a close friend to post it of her FaceBook page. It spread like fire and before long Auburndale High School pick it up and started a post on their FaceBook page. A few hours later a man from the school said he had access to the Auburndale High School Alumni directory and could run the initials with the graduation date of 1970. Within 24 hours from the first FaceBook post the name Kenneth E. Board was identified and notified by answering machine. When he called me back he was in total disbelief. Mr. Board said he had lost the ring after diving his prom date over 100 mile to the east coast for a day at the beach. A storm came in and they grabbed the blanket and ran off the beach never to see his graduation ring again until almost 50 years later! Mr. Boards 50th reunion is coming up and boy will he have a story! Finding gold and silver on the beach is a thrill but being able to return a target and learn about it has been a rewarding journey. JP 

Jerry and the Ring's Owner.

Photo submitted by Jerry P.

Here is a link where you can read more about this story and more about Jerry's detecting finds and experiences.

https://weather.com/news/news/2019-12-03-class-ring-found-after-50-years-in-florida

Thanks for sharing Jerry.  Great story!  Congratulations.

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Do you recognize this Treasure Coast location?

Where the Walk-over to John Brooks Beach Used To Be.

I visited a couple beaches yesterday afternoon and found that the walkover to John Brooks beach had been removed.  That is undoubtedly why the park was closed when I last visited.

I don't know what they plan to do here, but East portion of the old walkover was continually getting covered by sand blowing off the beach.  

John Brooks Beach Friday Afternoon.

You can see from the weeds deposited on the beach that the most recent tide was not removing sand.

John Brooks Beach Friday Afternoon.

While neither beach looked really promising, Frederick Douglass beach looked a touch better to me.  The bottom third of half was fairly firm.

Frederick Douglass Beach Friday Afternoon.

I saw one detectorist working to the south of Frederick Douglass yesterday afternoon.

Frederick Douglass Beach Friday Afternoon.

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A six million dollar coin hoard found by detectorists will be going on display at the British Museum.

A pair of metal detectorists made the discovery of a lifetime when they unearthed a hoard of ancient coins worth around $6 million in a field in Somerset, in the West of England. The historic find, believed to be one of the biggest ever treasure troves uncovered in the UK, is due to be unveiled at the British Museum tomorrow.

Treasure hunters Adam Staples and Lisa Grace unearthed the 2,571 Anglo-Saxon and Norman coins in January when they were searching farmland with their trusty metal detectors. In an interview with Treasure Hunting Magazine, the couple described the hoard as “amazing” and “absolutely mind-blowing.” They reported their find to the authorities as required by UK law, and the coins were soon sent to the British Museum for evaluation...

Here is the link for more about that.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-treasure-coins-1636096

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Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

The surf will be running around two to four feet.

Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

8/17/17 Report - More 1715 Site Finds From the Capitana. 1802 Shipwreck With Interesting Cargo. Storms Forming in the Atlantic.

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Cole Smith of the Capitana Crew with Encrusted Object
Photo submitted by  Captain Jonah Martinez

Captain Jonah said, The cargo hook was found by Cole Smith newest member of the Capitana...

Congratulations Cole, and thanks for sharing Jonah!

Cole also found a class ring. Not the class of 1715 - but 1968.

Cole's 1968 Class Ring Find.

Things of various ages and sources sometimes get mixed together.  Just because something comes from a known shipwreck site doesn't mean it came from the shipwreck.  That is obviously the case with this class ring.  The ring looks like it has been lost for a good number of years.

Nice thing about diving all day is that your hands look like you just got a manicure - not like relic hunters.   Relic hunters usually look like they could start a seed garden under their fingernails. ( :

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Continuing with that theme, I found an article about a shipwreck that was lost in 1802 that was carrying antiquities taken from ancient Greece.

Chess pawns, combs and a toothbrush are some of the new findings brought to light by the underwater excavation of the wreck of the ship “Mentor” that sank off the island of Kythira in 1802...

Divers On The Site of the 1802 shipwreck of the Mentor.
Source: See GreekReporter link below.

The ship, which was carrying antiquities plundered from the Parthenon by British diplomat Lord Elgin, was bound for England via Malta but sank at the entrance of the port of Avlemona southwest Kythera...

For more about that, here is the link.

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/08/15/items-recovered-from-wreck-of-elgins-ship-off-kythira/

Another example how items from various sources and ages can be found together.

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov

The Atlantic is hearing up.  The system approaching the West Indies (red) had an 80% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours.  The next system has about a thirty percent chance.

Gert is way north now.

I'll be posting a projected path on those systems before long.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/20/16 Report - WW II Class Ring Returned. Important Luna Settlement Artifact. Two Tropical Storms.

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Class Ring of WW II Medal of Honor Winner Returned
Source: Aggie News (See link below)

This is a great story.  It was told on Oliver North's War Stories TV program.  I found it online too.

The ring was lost by Tourney Leonard, a WW II Medal of Honor recipient who was killed at a battle in Germany, where his body lies in an unmarked grave.

The ring was found by a German soldier after the American dead were recovered.  His son-in-law, also a soldier, found the ring, did the research and returned the ring to the family many years after it was lost

Here is the link for the entire story.

https://www.aggienetwork.com/media/guides/texas%20aggie/2014/a%20special%20aggie%20ring%20comes%20home%20from%20texas%20aggie%20mag%202001-01.pdf

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Here are a couple of paragraphs from an article about excavations at the Luna site identified as the Luna settlement.

...“We have this large trash pit, which definitely indicates something about the number of people there, the amount of garbage they generated, the fact that they buried it, as opposed to just sort of leaving it around on the surface,” Worth said. “So, what we’re seeing is clear evidence of a two-year span of time, in which this particular corner of the site, which we think is the heart of the site, was the residence for a number of Spaniards of different social levels.’

For example, in one area containing a dense concentration of artifacts, they also found a balance scale weight, made out of a copper alloy, likely used in measuring pay for soldiers. Worth says there’s only one person in the expedition, the treasurer, who was in charge of that and, therefore, would have owned a set...

And below is one of the telling artifacts from the excavation.

Here is the link to that article.

http://wuwf.org/post/uwf-archaeologists-find-more-evidence-daily-life-1559-luna-settlement

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov

We have two tropical storms now, Karl and Lisa.  Both are expected to head towards the northwest turning north before hitting the U. S.

Despite the nice big tides we are having I don't expect any significant improvement in beach detecting conditions real soon.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

6/18/16 Report - Lost and Returned Times Two: Class Ring and Keys. Lightning Danger Along Treasure Coast Lately. Increasing Surf.

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Facebook Post Thanking Warren D. for Finding Matthew's Class Ring.

Here is what Warren told me in an email yesterday.

I went back to the beach today and recovered a set of keys that I was looking for yesterday when I got sidetracked to recover a lost school ring.

I didn't know the losses were connected. I found the ring yesterday when the mother and son were on the beach. I found the keys today and returned them to the other mother. Turns out the boys and their mothers all knew each other. The boys were at a big beach beer pong party.

Now they're BUSTED. 

Thanks much Warren!  We need to share good deeds like this.

Keys Returned by WarrenPhoto submitted by Warren D.

In the past I've talked a lot about what types of events lead to things being lost on the beach.  Beer parties, of course, are one of those things.  They involve relatively young active people getting drunk. That is the type of thing that leads to things getting lost.

When you hear of a loss, pay attention to how it occurred.

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Lightning Hitting Water At Beach.
Source: Weather Channel

I saw a lot of lightning yesterday. Below is what the National Weather service says about lightning striking the water.

If you are in the sea and a thunderstorm looks likely in the area, there are two ways to cut the risk of getting hit - get out and find some shelter, or swim deeper...

Most of the electrical discharge spreads horizontally rather than vertically. This is bad news for people, who tend to float or swim on or near the surface.

... "If you get out of the water and can't find shelter, it's best to crouch into a ball, rather than lay flat on the floor, as this also raises risks. If you stay in the water, you could try to go deep, but it's unlikely you can hold your breath for long enough to avoid the danger."

Metal detectors can provide early warning.  You can often hear static caused by lightning while it is still a good distance away.

Sudden rain storms also lead to things being lost at the beach, as people hurriedly get up, shake off their blanket, gather their goods and run for cover.

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Getting old is a pain in the neck...and the back... and the knee and elbow, and almost everyplace you can think of from time to time.  I've said that the only good thing about getting old is that it is better than the alternative, but there are some other things. 

There are physical challenges, but there is also an accumulation of experience, memories and a certain appreciation for things like youth and family and precious moments, both past and present.

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“I hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens who meet one or more of the criteria in section 1 of this order would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend the entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of such persons.” 

Guess who said that?  The current president of the U. S.

Many claim that a ban on a class of immigrants would be unconsitutional, but it has been done dozens of times in modern history, including by the current president who issued the above ban on April 23, 2012 to exclude people from Iran and Syria who use computer technology to commit human rights abuses or threaten U.S. national security interests.

Source: https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trumps-muslim-ban-not-the-first/

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The recent shooting at the Pulse night club in Orlando has deep roots in Fort Pierce and White City.  There have been news agencies from around the country and around the world in Fort Pierce lately.  They've been lined up along Midway road in White City and doing interviews with residents down by the inlet and other places in the area.

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There is a disturbance over Yucatan that has a 40 percent chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours.

The surf will increase on Sunday up to as much as five feet and as much as seven on Monday.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

7/3/14 Report - Arthur Heads Towards North Carolina Treasure Beaches, 1711 Royal Escudo and 1953 Class Ring Returned

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1711 Royal
Source: CoinWorld.  See link below.

This Felipe V 1711 gold Royal Cob 8 Escudos, MXo-J, graded MS64 PCGS, sold at a Heritage World and Ancient Coin Auction for over $293,000.

...this coin sheds a little light on the way coins of this period transitioned from hammered to milled coinage and offers up some interesting questions about exactly how and why “Royal Cobs” were made and used during the Spanish Colonial Period.



http://www.coinweek.com/auctions-news/gold-royal-cob-sheds-light-spanish-colonial-coinage-highlights-heritage-world-coin-results/



Here is an article about a college class ring that was returned after being lost 60 years.  It was lost in 1954 in a Texas lake.  The recent drought caused the water of the lake to go down and the ring was found on the surface - no detector.

1953 Class Ring Returned
Source: Daily Mail link.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2677593/University-class-ring-lost-Texas-lake-60-years-ago-returned-owner-lake-bed-following-severe-drought.html

That story reminds us to keep your eyes open while detecting and also to watch for special opportunities.  It doesn't matter whether it is high water, low water, or what, many different types of events can provide new opportunities.

Also, isn't it interesting that the ring didn't sink or get covered, but was found on the surface after all that time.   A rocky surface can do that. 

Fabien Cousteau just emerged after 31 days under water in the Florida Keys.

https://news.yahoo.com/cousteau-grandson-resurfaces-31-days-under-water-100124898.html

Since we're not going to be getting much from Arthur on the Treasure Coast, I looked at the surfing web sites for North Carolina and found one location "Blogue Pier" that had up to a sixteen foot surf predicted.  On top of that, the wind at the time was predicted to be from the North all day.

It looks like the guys that hunt the Outer Banks will be getting ready to hit the treasure beaches up there.

Good luck guys. I won't make it this trip.


We're going to have a few more days of one-foot surf.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

 

6/18/14 Report - Salvage Vessel at Cocoa, Mucking, Class Ring Found On Old Shipwreck Returned and Stamp Worth Nearly 10 Million

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Salvage Vessel  Working Up At Cocoa
Photo by John Morgan

John Morgan sent me this picture and email message.

Hi Treasure Guide,
At 8:25 AM  6/18/2014 I spotted a treasure salvage boat with blowers down outside on my balcony at 16th south Cocoa Beach.
They are 1/3 mile offshore...

John heard Josh Fisher talking on a podcast about a wreck of the 1715 Fleet that they thought was around Cape Canaveral.


Thanks for the information and report John!  Nice photo too!




Do you know the difference between this blog and some of the others?  This one is all about you.  I'd rather post your finds, reports and information than mine.

I'm not trying to get attention or sell you anything.  Not even trying to make money off of clicks by advertising.  No ads here.  I just pass along information.

The thing that makes me happiest is when the information that I post helps other people and I hear about that.  One person recently sent me an email and said his finds have about doubled since he began reading this blog.  That is the kind of thing I like to hear.

Another reader recently said that as a direct result of one of my tips, he looked where he never would have looked and found two high quality rings.

I do enjoy researching and analyzing and passing along what I learn.  I was a researcher in academia for a lot of years, and I enjoyed it.  I also enjoy analyzing things and learning, as well as sharing what I learn.  That is why I do this blog.

Typical Sandy Treasure Coast Beach This Morning Near Low Tide 

Here is one typical Treasure Coast beach as I found it this morning.

I have pictures of other beaches from this morning, but they all look pretty much the same.  

In the picture above. towards the right you can see slight remains of an old cut (right of the ATV tracks), and all of that sand in front has washed up since.  You can see the last high tide line.

If you are detecting on the Treasure Coast now, during these sandy conditions, your best bet is recent drops. There is a lot of sand.  Even recent drops are sinking or being covered quickly, both in the water and in the wet sand area.

The renourishment projects added a lot of sand to our beaches too.  Much of the renourishment project sand has been dragged into the shallow water, where it extends out quite a few yards.

I did a little detecting in front of a small hotel this morning where the renourishment was.   I ran loose scan pattern to find any concentrations, then I focused on one small area but only came up with coins.  I don't remember getting anything but coins there - no trash at all.

I then moved on and did some mucking at another beach that had been replenished recently and has been eroding. The sand that was brought in has a lot of torn aluminum in it.  I detected in front of a cut there even though I knew I would find tons of aluminum trash.  

By "mucking" I mean detecting a very trashy where I figured there would be a few good targets. 

The area where I was mucking had about ten aluminum targets to every non aluminum targets, at least that is how it seemed, although I did not keep track exactly, yet it took less than a half hour to find a ring.  Come to think of it, there was only one coin found in that mess, and about a half dozen other non-aluminum targets, plus the ring.  

There is a trick to mucking.  Read the pattern of trash to find the areas where other kinds of targets are most likely to be found.    I should have taken some pictures of that area so I could explain the technique better.  Basically, you analyze the pattern of junk, both laterally and depth, and it will point you to where you might find better things.  There is no escaping digging the trash though.  The trash is what will tell you how things are distributed, and therefore, where to go.

Mucking takes patience.   But it will often pay off.

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I show them all the time - rings that are found and returned to the owner.   A 1972 class ring was found by a treasure salvage crew off of Vero and returned to the owner who last saw the ring when it was stolen form his apartment in Miami some 40 years ago.

Here is the link to that story.

http://www.wptv.com/news/region-indian-river-county/vero-beach/tcoast-treasure-hunters-find-class-ring-missing-for-40-years


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One cent stamp sold for $9.5 million.  Here is the link for that story.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/video/Rare-Postage-Stamp-Sells-for-Millions/283452995508/Comcast/Today_in_Video/?cid=hero_sf_TIV


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On the Treasure Coast we'll have about a one-foot surf for several days.  That won't change the sandy conditions we have.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

4/27/14 Report - Shipwrecks in Gaveston Bay Being Explored, Gold Ring Found on Treasure Coast & More

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Shipwreck Site in Galveston Bay
Source KHOU.com video mentioned below. 

Yesterday I talked about speedy recovery of targets in dry sand.  One thing that I didn't emphasize enough is the necessity of a strong heavy scoop with a sturdy handle.  The scoop should be heavy enough to provide momentum and speed when swung, otherwise the technique will be more tiring.




If you looked at the pfd file presenting a  summary of laws related to underwater cultural heritage that I posed a couple of days ago, you could not have missed the heavy presence of BOEM and NOAA.  It looks to me like those two groups could be taking over the field of deep water shipwreck salvage and archaeology.  Their names are showing up more and more when shipwrecks are discovered.  I really wonder if there will be anything that isn't controlled and operated by the government in the future.  Will there be any room left or any reason left for "private" enterprise?  Will anything and everything "private" be demonized as evil, greedy, or selfish?  It is beginning to look that way to me.

Here are two links to web sites presenting discoveries of historic shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.khou.com/news/local/No-way-Clock-found-in-shipwreck-debris-off-Galveston-255722941.html

Take a look at the video as well as the text. 

http://archaeology.org/issues/124-1403/features/1811-gulf-of-mexico-monterrey-shipwreck

Here are a couple of paragraphs from this one.

We were a little bit hesitant at first,” says Irion of opening the video feed to the public. For example, if valuable artifacts are found on a wreck site, they might attract looters or salvagers to the area. Or, if an archaeologist makes a premature assessment, a large audience may be there to witness the mistake. One of the artifacts archaeologists were most excited about, for example, was a piece of cloth identified as “the wool jacket.” It tuned out to be a modern T-shirt that snagged on the wreck.

Archaeology is a challenging pursuit under the best circumstances, and even more so when conducted through thousands of feet of water and via a sophisticated, but sometimes very clumsy, ROV. “This is like parallel parking a truck underwater,” commented one of the engineers controlling Herc. “While you’re not sober,” chimed in another. Something as simple as closing the latch on a box of artifacts could take an hour. “Archaeology is sometimes a destructive process,” Irion adds. Previously untouched sites are dismantled in the course of studying them, as artifacts are removed, moved, and occasionally broken. “Sometimes things happen that you don’t want everybody to see.”

As I've said before there is the too prevalent view that the citizen is good for providing tax dollars to fund projects but beyond being a milk cow is not trusted, even when the project is a mile under water.  Where did the concept of public servant go?

Public funded projects should be open to public view and should not be hidden from the public even if someone wants to avoid the embarrassment of a mistake.  An interested and involved public will provide assistance and insure quality.  Simply put, cultural heritage belongs to the public.

Did you also notice the discovery of these wrecks was credited to the government organizations rather than the companies that actually located and reported them?




Another 14K Class Ring
Dug on the Treasure Coast

If you spend much time detecting you'll find a good number of class rings.  Most of the men's class rings are relatively large and therefore easy enough to find.

If you are only finding big gold rings and few ladies or small rings, you are probably using too much discrimination.

One of the larger gold class rings that I ever found was in a small area out of which I dug three or four one ounce sinkers before hitting the ring.  I could have easily quit after digging the first sinkers.

Not only are class rings usually fairly large, but they also often contain all the information you need to find the owner and return the ring.  It shouldn't take too much research.



This was a busy weekend for those of you who attended the meeting at FIT and the Treasure Hunter's Cookout.


Well, it really is starting to seem like summer.  Not only do we have wind from the South and sandy beaches, but now the temperature is climbing.

The high tides are nice and high today, but probably won't do much good because the sea is nearly flat.  I'm not expecting much change any time soon.

Get used to the poor beach detecting conditions.




This is the general type of fish that produced the skeleton that I showed the other day.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

 

 

3/8/14 Report - Sand Movement and Obtacles, Speed Limit in 1861, Class Ring, Expensive US Coins.

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

Sand bar created by obstruction near shore.

I'm still having trouble uploading videos to blog posts.  I had one for today but ended up making a series of stills out of it to illustrate my point.

In this first picture the shore line runs left (north) to right (south), pretty much along the bottom of the photo,and the log sticks out from the shoreline in something like a 45 degree angle.  Most groins, which I talked about back a few posts, would stick out at about 90 degrees, of course,  Nonetheless the principles are basically the same.

In this illustration the waves have been hitting from the upper left corner in about the direction of the arrow.

The water was coming up onto the newly created sand bar that you see to the left of the log.

Notice the lack of sand to the right of the log.  That is what you would see happen as the result of long shore drift, which on the Treasure Coast is north to south.  Look at our inlets and jetties and you will see something very similar.

Picture two showing direction of water.

Picture two (above) shows the direction of the water as it comes onto and up over the sand bar.

In the upper left corner you see a wave about to hit the sand bar.

The sand bar builds as the water washes sand in from the upper left,  The waves crash in front of the sand bar, suspending sand and moving it up the slope.  As the water slows down as it goes over the bar, the water loses speed and drops the sand.

Some of the water that makes it over the bar runs to the right and back down along beside the log.  However, as both this water and the water running back down the front of the slope goes out, there is another wave coming in which crashes into the receding water, thus stopping it from receding unabated.  That creates a brief zone of no current where some items are dropped for the moment.

If the size of the waves do not increase as the tide goes out, everything will happen closer to the top of the picture farther out in the water and the bar will be extended out into the water.

Picture three showing how there is little sand on the right side of the log.

Of course the waves are coming in from the same direction on both sides of the log  (from the top left of the picture).  However you can see that on the right side of the log, there is no sand build up.

The sand to the right of the log keeps moving to the right along the shore with the direction of the waves that are hitting at an angle.   There is no sand moving in to replace the sand that is moving out on that side of the log.

When you find a situation like this, no matter if the obstacle is a groin or a log or rocks or whatever, the place to hunt is on the side where the sand has been depleted.  That is where items that might have been dropped over time and accumulated could be uncovered.

If the wind changes and the waves change direction (then coming from the upper right hand corner)
the process would be reversed, though not completely because of the angle of the log, and the sand would build on the right side of the log and be removed from the left side.  Then you would want to hunt the left side.

Due to our north to south running near shore currents on the Treasure Coast (the opposite of the Jet Stream by the way) the predominant direction is for beach sand to travel north to south.  So when you have a significant sustained reversal you might get a good opportunity to hunt the north side of obstructions.  Watch for those unusual opportunities.

When the wind and waves are hitting from the south, it has to be large and sustained to have a significant impact for a variety of reasons.  One the wave energy coming from the south is moving against the near shore currents and the sand pushed in the direction in the past has to be moved before you get down to productive levels.

Swimmers often like to hang out on sand bars, so when a sand bar moves, that is a good place to be.

Recent Find Found by Using
Knowledge of Moving
Sand Bars

If you know about how forces like these work and you know your different beaches, you can intelligently decide what places you want to check before you leave home.

Sand bars are obstacles to the flow of sand too, as are holes, rocks, etc. etc.

Get to know your beaches and how they respond to different conditions.


Today I started a new experiment to show how objects of different size and weight sink in sand.  It is not a very refined experiment but in the first ten minutes I was seeing interesting results.  I'll report on that some time when the experiment is done.


Did you know that you could receive a fine for speeding in St. Augustine in 1861?

City of St Augustine vs Lewis slave of B Olivero; Fast riding through the Streets - January
26, 1861 (St. Augustine City Court Record)
On this day appeared Bartolo Oliveros owner of said slave Lewis in answer to complaint made by City
Marshal against said slave for riding through the Streets of said City on the 20 inst at a faster gait
than permitted by the City Ordinance.

The said Bartolo Oliveros owner of said slave having admitted the guilt of his said slave. His honor
ordered a fine of five dollars to be entered against said Bartolo Oliveros owner of said slave and that
said slave stand committed until said fine and cost be paid.

Here is the source link.   It has numerous interesting tid bits on Florida history.

http://www.drbronsontours.com/bronsonhistorypageamericanstaugustinecivilwar.html


The President's new budget gives the US Mint  the authority to do research on the composition of coins and authority to change the composition of coins.

The latest figures available from the United States Mint indicate a cost of 1.83 cents to produce and distribute each cent and a cost of 9.41 cents for each nickel. All other denominations cost less than their respective face values to produce and distribute.

The cost of making and distributing 5 pennies is about the same as one nickel.

Here is the link.

http://www.coinflation.com/coinage_material.html


We are having north winds and around a four or five foot surf this weekend.  It isn't enough to appreciably change detecting conditions on the Treasure Coast.  That is why I've been targeting modern finds lately.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net