11/29/19 Report - Massive Emerald. Jaegea Skeletal Remains Found. Viking Brooch. Bigger Surf.

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794 Pounds of Emerald Found.

Source: See Geology In link below.

The massive emerald, which weighs 794 pounds and stands around 4.3 feet high was unearthed a month ago, 200 metres deep inside the Carnaiba Mine in Brazil

Experts predict the enormous emerald rock could fetch around £238million Whopping 360kg emerald discovered in Brazil worth $308 million

An enormous £238million emerald rock discovered in a gem mining field in Brazil is being kept under heavy security in a secret location as the owner exclusively revealed he is living in fear of kidnapping, extortion and armed robbery...

Click here to read more about that in Geologyin.com.

Link provided by Robert H.

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 I need to make a correction today.  The fellow that shared the photos and story about the 3-hole deadeye in my in my 11/27 post is actually GB - not Scott.  I made the corrections in that post.

Sorry about the mistake.

Thanks for sharing GB.  That is one nice artifact.

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The skeletal remains of an early Native American adult and child have been discovered on the property of the historic Duck's Nest residence.

The bone fragments, estimated by an archaeologist at around 2,500 to 3,000 years old, were found in mid-October while workers were digging utility trenches on the property at 303/305 Maddock Way.

The site already was listed by the state as archaeologically significance because of prehistoric artifacts found there in the past, so archaeologists were there when the remains turned up...

Here is the link.

https://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20191126/archaeologists-uncover-human-remains-at-historic-florida-property

The remains are thought to be Jaega.

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A fully preserved early Viking-era brooch found in Northeastern Estonia this spring is one of two such items that have been discovered in Estonia. It is believed to have belonged to a woman born on the island of Gotland who moved to present-day Estonian territory later on in her life.

The bronze box-shaped brooch was found in the Ida-Viru County village of Varja.

Mauri Kiudsoo, archaeologist and keeper of the archaeological research collection at Tallinn University (TLÜ), told BNS that the brooch found at Varja was cast as a single piece.

The decorative item has been wholly preserved, with only slight damage to the surface, likely as a result of the cultivation of land, Kiudsoo said. The pin, which was apparently made of steel, is also missing...

Here is the link for more about that.

https://news.err.ee/1006840/rare-box-shaped-viking-brooch-found-in-northeastern-estonia

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Did you notice the thin sliver of moon last night?   Venus was just below the crescent waxing moon, with Jupiter a bit to the right.  You can see several features on Jupiter with a modest telescope, but Venus is covered by gas and shows as a formless bright spot. Both planets are moving eastward with respect to the stars, with the slowest, Jupiter, initially in the lead and the faster Venus in the rear. Some people believe that some planetary event like this, perhaps a conjunction, formed what we call the Christmas star.  

It was pretty anyhow.

The surf will be increasing soon.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

2/9/19 Report - Great Treasure Coast Eye-Ball Find This Week. Beach Conditions. Bigger Surf Coming.

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Emerald Found This Week On Treasure Coast

Find and photo by Joe R.

Here is what Joe said.

Eyeballed this in the surf line Mon. 2/4

2.10 carets.

My jeweler confirmed it is an emerald.

Thanks Joe.  Great find!

In the past I've posted several emeralds eye-balled on Treasure Coast beaches.

Here is an excerpt from a 2106 article about some fantastic shipwreck emerald finds.


… An exciting feature of the collection is a clutch of cut gems found on the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, a galleon bound for Spain in 1622 which sank off the Florida Keys while heavily laden with copper, silver, gold, tobacco, gems, jewels and indigo.

The ships had sailed from Spanish ports at Cartagena and Porto Bello in New Granada (current Colombia and Panama, respectively) and Havana, Cuba.

In 2014, the Atocha was added to the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most valuable shipwreck to be recovered, as it was carrying roughly 40 tonnes of gold and silver, and 70 pounds (32 kg) of emeralds which are treasured for their deep, clear green...

And here is the link if you want to read the entire article.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/16/rare-emeralds-found-400-year-old-shipwreck-expected-fetch-millions/

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I took a look at some South Hutchinson Island beaches this afternoon.  The beaches were as ugly as the weather was beautiful.

John Brooks Saturday Afternoon.

John Brooks Beach Saturday Afternoon.

As you can see there was some beach-front filling and some seaweed washed up.  You can still see the old cliff face though.  There were also Portuguese Man-O-War washing up.

Near low tide was a few scattered shells in a flat area and then a small dip in front of the beach.

Fort Pierce South Jetty Park Saturday Afternoon.

The beaches that I looked at besides John Brooks all looked pretty similar.

Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Saturday Afternoon.

MagicSeaWeed is still predicting a five to seven foot surf tomorrow (Sun.).

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

4/17/17 Report - Small Emerald Found On Beach. Lots of Seaweed. Decreasing Surf. President's Grandfather In Klondike Gold Rush.

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Small Beach Emerald.

Hope you had a great Easter.  I didn't get out much.  I did get out a little while.  I did find this little piece of what appears to me to be emerald.  It is on a penny for size comparison.  It is not a quality emerald.  Just a raw piece of opaque stone.  I have found better and bigger emeralds at the same location in the past.

I didn't have as much luck with coins.  I didn't hunt long enough to give it a good chance though.

Broken Piece of Something.

I did find this unidentifiable broken item.  The scale is the same as the emerald above.  It is small and encrusted.  Have no idea what it might be.

John Brooks Beach The Day Before Easter.

Saturday I took a look at a couple of beaches and took a couple of pictures. This is what it looked like.  Lots of seaweed.  The beach in front of the cut was mushy.

Another View of John Brooks The Same Day.

Another Beach The Day Before Easter.

I took this picture at another beach I stopped at after John Brooks.  The dunes were getting high.  That is what I wanted to show, but it didn't show very well.

I also noticed Saturday that the heavy equipment was on the beach at Fort Pierce South Jetty Park.  I didn't get to look around at enough beaches to give a good beach conditions rating.

Horse Tooth Fossil

My wife picked up this horse tooth fossil on a Treasure Coast beach last week sometime while she was collecting shells.  It does show that you can find some really old stuff.

Peahen On Roof.

This Peahen showed up on my roof a few days ago.  I have no idea where it came from.

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I just found out last week that our President's grandfather, who emigrated to the United States when he was 16, later made his money operating a restaurant and boarding house in a mining town during the Klondike Gold Rush.  That is what Wikipedia says.

Here is an another article about that.

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/inside-the-wild-canadian-past-of-the-trump-family/

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The surf will decrease today and for the next few days.

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

12/22/15 Report - A Few Recent Treasure Coast Finds. Beach Conditions. Important Viking Hoard Found.

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Emerald, Spike and Copper Finds.

I've been busy lately trying to keep up with beach changes.  That is a good thing.  Since October we've actually had some erosion and a few periods of improved beach hunting conditions.  It has been better than all summer by a large amount and better than at least the previous winter or two.  I had to do a lot of checking around to keep up with it all

I didn't get around to posting many finds lately.  Above are a few miscellaneous finds from December. On the piece of copper is a small emerald and a spike.  There were some cobs found and other artifacts.  I'll try to post some of those soon.

Yesterday afternoon I checked around and the beaches and those that I saw didn't look very good.

Monday Afternoon.

There was no erosion on this beach.  Notice the seaweed.

Frederick Douglas Beach. Monday Afternoon.

A few days ago this beach had tons of new sand piled up on the front beach. Then one morning the new sand had a small cut, which barely scratching the surface of the new sand.  Shortly after that sometime, much of the new sand got moved.  Now the beach looks more normal again.

At the top of the slope in front of the cliff is a bunch of shells, many of which got covered by one of the two most recent high tides. You can see a new layer of sand just a few inches thick that washed up during a recent high tide.  It partly covered many of the shells and some of the sea weed.  Sometimes you can see signs of how a beach developed over a period of days.  This is one of those cases.

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Here is another important find by an amateur treasure hunter.  Detectorists contribute a lot of important finds.

A close up of some of the jewellery and ingots of a significant Viking Hoard found near Watlington, in Oxfordshire, England as they are displayed at the British Museum in London, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015. The hoard contains 186 coins, seven items of jewellery and 15 ingots of precious metal. The items include rare coins from era of King Alfred the Great (871-899) and King Ceolwulf II (874-79) when the kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex fought the invading 'Great Heathen Army' also known as the great Danish army, in the late 800's.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Here is the link to the entire article.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/viking-hoard-found-in-field-sheds-light-on-englands-origins/ar-AAgf9hq?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UP97DHP

Thanks to William K. for sending the link.

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We're going to have several days of moderate surf ( mostly 2 - 4 foot) and southeast winds.  That won't do much good.  Still I'm encouraged about the rest of the winter.  I think it looks promising.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

10/4/15 Report - Beach Emerald Found. Iron Artifacts. Don Diego De Vargas. 7 Foot Surf Predicted For Tuesday.

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Emerald Found On A Treasure Coast Treasure Beach

You never know what you might see on a beach.  Here is an emerald found on one of the Treasure Coast beaches.
It was in a shell pile.

It is green, but the light reflecting in the photo doesn't show the color very well.  I tried to get the light to show the facets, which wasn't good for the color.   It is partly encased in matrix.

Others have found emeralds on the beach too.

That is another reminder to keep your eyes open when detecting.





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The most read post of September was the  9/7/15 Report - Great Numismatic Study of Dug Pistareens. Tropical Storm Grace Headed This Way. Ring Beach Find.

The most "google plused" posts of September were  the 9/6/15 Report - Bernard Romans And The 1715 Fleet. Tropical Storm Grace, and  the 9/23/15 Report - One Way To Add Value And Interest To Your Treasures. North Carolina Beaches Producing. Sea Glass Web Sites.  They were tied.

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You'll find a lot of iron on the treasure beaches.  Most of it is modern, but once in a while you can find an old iron item.  Shipwreck spikes are not real rare.  They are often found heavily encrusted.

If you find a nice old iron item, it has to be treated properly or it could eventually crumble into nothing.  It is a shame to see a nice old piece rust and fall apart.

The first step is to get it into a water bath so the salt will leach out.

I won't get into conservation methods today.  I've done that before, but you can't just leave them sit around.

Here are some nice old iron pieces that have undergone treatment at the conservation lab.

Various Iron Shipwreck Items At The Conservation Lab.

Notice that ax head at the bottom right corner.  Also the bar shot.

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Here is an interesting read.

To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692 - 1694.

Click here to read.

It is about the restoration of the government after a revolt by the natives.

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They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I think it is just as true to say that treasure is where you see it.  It seems that some can see treasure where others can't.  I wonder if there aren't some people who can't see treasure at all.

As I grow older my idea of treasure changes.  Last night I was reminded of one treasure that I hadn't appreciated enough.

My dad wasn't the warm fuzzy type.  He didn't give out praise and encouragement.  I don't think he knew how because he never got it himself, not having a father around and being on his own from the time he was very young.

Every Saturday evening he drove me several miles to where the newspapers were dropped off at a gas station on old U.S. 40.  We'd assemble them in the truck, then he'd drive me back to our neighborhood where I'd deliver the papers door to door.

It was a rural area where there were farms with homes scattered between the old farms, so the paper route spread out over I don't know how many miles.

I remember the old farm houses. At the first old farm house on top of a hill where my grandfather was raised in the early 1900s, the dogs were always sleeping on the front porch steps, and I'd step over them to get to the screen door.  The chickens were pecking around in the yard.  It looked just like the house on The Waltons except it was on top of a big hill on a winding unpaved road.

At the next farm there was often a bull right next to the road in front of the house.  I was afraid of that big old bull, and wondered how a little stake in the ground and a chain attached to a ring in his nose was to hold supposed to hold him.  I never trusted it, but I guess it worked.

Then on through the route.  I think I made $2.50 a week.  I don't know how many houses there were.  I'd guess maybe fifty.  And that about works out since I got a nickle a paper.

I had appreciated it before to some extent, but it really hit me today, about how dad spent his time and gas money every Saturday evening to give me the lessons that I learned on my paper route.  Maybe it was as much about spending time together.  Now he is gone.  And now, sixty some years later, I'm old enough to see how much of a treasure it was.  Thanks dad.  It means more than anything I could ever dig up.

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The surf web sites haven't changed much.  The prediction for Tuesday is now for a surf of around 7 feet.  I think it will come down to the wind, and I don't think it is going to do the trick.  We will get some winds from the north on Tuesday, but it doesn't look very strong.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/5/15 Report - Salvage Boat At Work. Little Surf and Beaches Still Sanded. Gold Disc and Emerald Cross.

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Salvage Boat Near The Nieves Wreck Site This Morning.

Just over a week ago, on the 27th to be exact, I posted about a bunch of treasure including a great 8-escudo royal recently found by a salvage crew on the Treasure Coast.  After seeing pictures of the finds, I thought I probably knew where they came from.  Well I was down that way today and took a look.  The thing that surprised me was that the salvage boat was exactly where I thought they would be.

Here is a closer view.

Salvage Boat This Morning Near The Nieves Wreck Site.

You can see the blowers are up.

While the salvage crews are having some of the best hunting they've had since back in the eighties, the beaches are about as bad as I can ever remember.  It just has been a really long time since we've had anything to move the beach sand.

Here is Walton Rocks Beach As Seen This Morning.

Walton Rocks is pretty typical of what you will see on the Treasure Coast.  Big wide flat beach fronts.

John Brooks Beach This Morning.

John Brooks is a little steeper on the front beach.  The sand is more coarse.  Mushy.

Detectorist Out For A Morning Hunt by Fort Pierce Jetty.

There were about as many detectorists as beach goers this morning.  Not many targets on the heavily hunted beaches.  Poor conditions too.

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Really Nice 82+ Ounce Gold Disc Up For Bids In Mel And Deo Fisher Collection Auction.

If you've been watching the auction, this gold disc has a bid of $60,000 already.

The gold and emerald cross that I showed the other day has eleven bids already.  The current bid is $70,000.  I think that item has the most bids of any item in the auction.  No doubt the post helped.

Here is the link again.

http://www.invaluable.com/catalog/searchLots.cfm?scp=c&catalogRef=LCOZ5LM9LU

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KT wrote and sent this link.

http://www.lostmystuff.net/index.php

It is a site where people can post about lost items. Volunteer detectorists in the area will then go and hunt for the lost items.

KT also said, keep up the good work on the blog. as a landlocked geologist, i have really enjoyed your discussions of classification and attendant diagrams. took me back to my college days. if you havent already, you might want to study up on how crossbedding is formed in rocks. its basically size/density and migration of small geophysical structures. kinda gives you a 3D mental picture of how stuff is moving.

Thanks KT

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Keep watching for the latest Treasure Coast 1715 Fleet Finds.

You can see from the photos what the beach detecting conditions are like.  

Expect several more days of one or two foot surf.

I can't wait to see something that stirs up the beaches.  It has to happen someday before long.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/6/14 Report - 16th Century Cob Found on Treasure Coast. Reales, Emerald & Porcelain Found Too. Biggest Dino Ever.

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Very Early Mexico Four-Reale Found Along Treasure Coast
Photos submitted by Captain Jonah Martinez

I showed a great escudo and a very interesting cluster of artifacts yesterday.  Today you'll see that that was only the beginning.  You might consider this post to be continuation of yesterday's.

The crew of the Capitana has been busy this year.  It has been a good season.  Here are some more photos of finds sent in by Captain Jonah Martinez.

This is a very early four-reale.

You can see the denomination over the waves between the Pillars of Hercules.



You can see the legend running across the coin reading "PLUS ULTRA," meaning something like "more beyond" and referring to the New World.

Same Mexico Four-Reale
Photo submitted by Captain Jonah Martinez

Here is the other side of the same cob.

It would have been minted prior to the Great Shield era, which began in 1572.

Notice the M mint mark to the left of the shield.

In my 8/28/14 post I showed another old Pillars and Waves cob that will be auctioned by Sedick this November.  That particular eight-reale could possibly be a million dollar cob.

The coin shown today is probably just a bit later.







Below is a real handful of treasure.   Looks like about sixteen or seventeen reales and a piece of K'hang Hsi porcelain.  It is spelled in a variety of ways.

You can occasionally find pieces of the K'hang Hsi porcelain on the beach.

 

Handfull of Treasure
Photo submitted by Captain Jonah Martinez.

I've talked about Kang Hsi porcelain in this blog a few times, for example in my 12/29/13 post.

http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/search?q=Kang+Hsi

You can use the blog search box to find specific topics by keyword.

There was a fellow who found a entire stack of plates that were uncovered by a storm.  He didn't know what they were.  When he found out that they could have been K'hang Hsi porcelain from a sunken galleon, he returned to find them, but never did.   They could have been worth a fortune.

It helps if you read a lot so you know what to look for.

The variety of cobs you see here ranges from small half reales on up.

If you look close you can see details on a few.  Those look a lot like what you can find on some of our shipwreck beaches when the conditions are right.

An Emerald Found On The Treasure Coast
Photo submitted by Captain Jonah Martinez.

Here is one more thing to keep your eyes open for when walking down the beach.

There are treasures that aren't made of metal.
This emerald is one more example.  You have to use your eyes to find these.

Well, you've seen a good sample of the kinds of treasures that are still out there waiting to be found.  And things like this will be found from time to time, occasionally showing up on the beaches.

Thanks to the Captain for letting us see all of these.  Keep it up guys.



The remains of the largest land mammal has been discovered.  They think it would have weighed something like 65 tons, about what a Boeing 767 weighs.

Here is a link to that very good article.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/09/04/this-is-the-kind-of-dinosaur-you-find-in-hollywood/


We still have a small surf on the Treasure Coast, but there are two disturbances to watch.  One is over North Florida and one is just coming off of Africa.


I'll have more new information on how coins and rings sink on a beach soon.  I made a little video of another experiment which shows what causes things to sink quickly.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net

9/21/12 Report - Treasure Coast Emerald & West Coast Shell

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Emerald Found on Treasure Coast Beach

I've previously reported on raw emeralds being found on some of the Treasure Coast beaches.  It appears that one example is now for sale on eBay.

The listing says, Up for auction is this rare 1.45 carat (5x6x8mm) rough (uncut) Colombian Muzo Mine Emerald which was recovered from the beach just inshore from the 1715 Fleet shipwreck called the "Cannon Pile Wreck" which lies in the near shore waters off of Treasure Shores Park, Vero Beach, Florida.

Here is the link.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1715-FLEET-SHIPWRECK-ARTIFACT-TREASURE-1-45-CARAT-COLOMBIAN-MUZO-MINE-EMERALD-/261101355143?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccada8087

The listing says that the emerald was discovered while someone was looking for sharks teeth.  There is another good reason to keep your eyes peeled while detecting.

Ted B. sent in a report from the West Coast of Florida - Pinellas County to be more precise.  Ted said, Unfortunately, the county started a beach re-nourishment project that has since covered the beach with about 3 feet of new sand. They feathered it out into the water. To get to any clean areas you can only go at very low tide or hunt in water up to your neck.

Thanks for the report Ted.   Before the beach replenishment there, Ted found the WW II shell pictured here.   You can find them many places in Florida, with heavier concentrations at some beach locations.  

Find and Photo by Ted B.

If you are new to this blog or don't remember, I once posted how you can tell the date and place of manufacture from the letters and numbers on these shells.  You can see that this one is from 1943.

On the Treasure Coast today we have winds from the East and one to two foot seas.  The seas will stay around that for a day or two and then start to increase a bit Sunday and up to about five feet on Monday, decreasing after that again.

Low tide today on the Treasure Coast is around 7 PM.

There is one low pressure area in the Atlantic, east of the Carolinas, just sitting there.  The only change has been an increased probability of it turning into a cyclone (50% now).  


Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

3/25 Report - Pedro Menendez & Emerald Ring

Emerald & Gold From a Treasure Beach.

Yesterday was one of those days. I didn't know what I wanted to talk about and it seemed that everything I tried to do didn't work. The camera memory was full, then the battery needed recharged, and on and on. Finally I gave up and decided that I'd just wait until another day for my next post. Usually I just sit down, know what I want to talk about and do it. Well yesterday it wasn't working.


I did run across some good research materials about Pedro Menendez and his activities along what the Treasure Coast area. The article is by Eugene Lyons and was published in the Tequesta under the title of The Florida Mutineers, 1566-1567.

Here is some of what I learned.

In 1565 Pedro Menendez took the French fort at Cape Canaveral "and then marched southward along the beaches to Ays." Captain Juan Velez, who with two hundred men and fifty French Prisoners waited a month at Ays for supplies to arrive. A mutiny occurred and a hundred men left and walked south along the beach until they reached an inlet that was too wide to swim. Eugene Lyons conjectured that this inlet might be the St Lucie River.

Later Velez discovered another port further south and moved the whole garrison there. There they built a fort which they called Santa Lucia, where they were continually attacked by the Jeaga Indians. Some sources put this site near the Jupiter Inlet and others at the St. Lucie inlet.

Here is the link if you want to read the entire article for yourself.

http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/files/1984/84_1_04.pdf

Or for a concise timeline with some different opinions on some details, see the following.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/histarch/menendez.htm


The most productive beach and water hunting depends heavily on the movement of sand. That is especially true when you are looking for older items or accumulations of items. When you are hunting what I call recent drops, the movement of sand doesn't matter much.

The dry sand or back-beach area does not change often, but it does change when there are unusually high waves or tides. The front beach or wet sand area changes often, but not as much as the area that is continually underwater and constantly affected by waves, tides and currents.

If you want to increase your finds, learn to hunt out the hot spots where the water has sifted, sorted and gathered items according to density and other physical characteristics.

When you find a hot spot, settle down, detect slow and get every last item.

Many hot spots will be in the water, but not all. I've found 15 rings in a four hour period in a wet sand area. The key is to locate the hot spots.

While it is easier to hunt the dry sand area, and there are times to do that, you can often be more productive by taking advantage of what the moving water will do for you - either underwater or in the wet sand after the tide has receded. The more water action you have in an area, the better the chances are of finding a real hot spot.

The wet sand areas work pretty much the same as the underwater areas except the water action is generally more consistent and therefore effective.

If you focus on finding hot spots, you'll want a detector that will work well no matter where the hot spot is found. Since the back beach, front beach and underwater areas all require something a little different from a detector, you might want to have a good general purpose detector that will function in all of those areas fairly well.

Some detectors that work fine in the dry sand do not work so well in the wet sand. And of course some are not made to be submerged. Dry sand is, of course, the easiest to work in some ways, but usually does not offer the advantage of items being sifted and sorted, and therefore junk is often intermingled with more valuable targets.


Everybody knows about the pirate, or privateer, Henry Morgan. Well archaeologists have found a cannon thought to be from his ship.

Here is the link to more of that story.

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/team-including-texas-state-professor-recovers-cannons-thought-1335660.html

Good article.


Did you know that Moammar Qadaffi has 143 tons of gold stored away in Libya? Whooeee!


The price of metals has been doing well lately too. Some are saying that metals prices will continue to rise.


Forecast and Conditions.

Conditions are not good for finding cobs on the Treasure Coast. Beach conditions haven't changed much for weeks, or months actually. And the sand just continues to build.

The wind is out of the west today and the seas are very calm. There are a lot of shell piles out there. Good time to be in the water (where allowed).


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

12/3 Report - Non-metallic Treasure Coast Finds

Indian Pot Shard Found on the Treasure Coast.

This one was found at the beach on the surface. It is about an inch and a half square. It is darker on the outside than the inside and the outside shows some of a decorative design. Pot shards showing some ornamentation are almost always a bit more interesting - at least to me.

You might be able to see one line running from near the bottom center at about a forty five degree angle towards the upper left and two parallel lines on the opposite side.

Below you see a view of the other side (inside) of the same shard. Notice the rim edge at the top of the piece.


Another View of the Same Shard.

Some of you might have any interest in pot shards or Indian artifacts, but they do provide information when they show up on a beach. First it tells you that old light items are washing up - or out.

Second it tells you that there has been some activity at the site in past centuries. That is important and useful information.

Many sites where the Spanish camped were also associated with Indians. Sometimes the Indians were involved in salvaging shipwrecks, either of their own free will or otherwise.

We know that the Indians often interacted with the Spanish and both Spanish and Indian artifacts can be found at the same sites. Not too long ago I mentioned a Native American dwelling found in St. Augustine where there was a mission settlement.

Also, if the Indians found a particular site to be of some advantage, so would other people, weather it was a source of water, game, or strategic advantage. That means that it would be a good site to detect.

Use non-metallic signs like this as an indicator of a possibly good detecting site.

While on the subject of non-metallic items, watch out for loose emeralds. They have been found on the Treasure Coast.

Two Raw Emeralds.

They won't necessarily be cut and polished like those found in a ring or other jewelry.



Bottles of vintage champagne were salvaged last summer from an early 19th century shipwreck near Finland. 50 sealed bottles are expected to sell for about $68,000 each.

http://i-winereview.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-government-revenue-source.html

The previous record price for a bottle of champagne is $21,200 for a 1928 bottle of Krug.


Forecast and Conditions.

Beach conditions remain essentially unchanged. The forecast shows nothing as high as five foot seas for the next several days. That means more of the same.

You'll probably have to really hunt for anything much good. The good spots will be few and far between.

One piece of advice I would give is to take a look at the low tide areas. Also hunt out some of the off-beach spots.

I might give a hint or two on some of those in the next few days.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net