7/20/19 Report - Artifacts Found by Kayaker. Super Bowl Ring Pawn Attempt. Battle of Waterloo Artifacts. Apollo 11.

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

Items Found by Kayaker.

Source: See TheGuardian.com link below.

Objects from a possible Roman shipwreck have been found off the coast of Kent in one of the most unusual archaeological finds in living memory.

The chance discoveries were made by a kayaker in the sea off Ramsgate. The tide was low enough and the water clear enough for him to reach down and pull out beautiful cobalt blue glassware and high-status Roman pottery, called Samian ware.

Mark Dunkley, a marine listing adviser with Historic England said it was the sort of find which just did not happen in the UK. “It is the rarity of the material and the quality of the material that is really significant. In my experience this stuff just does not exist in an underwater context anywhere around Britain...

For more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/17/kayaker-finds-rare-roman-glass-and-pottery-off-kent-coast

One good thing about glassware and potterys is that you can often find it when conditions are not good for finding things like coins.

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An employee of a Tempe, Ariz. hotel was arrested trying to sell stolen Super Bowl rings belonging to Mark May at a pawn shop in Las Vegas, according to Joe Enea and Shane Dale of ABC 15...

Behnert allegedly tried to sell the pair of rings for $12,000, which raised immediate questions by the staff. Considering a single 2006 Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl ring issued to defensive lineman Montae Reagor is currently listec by the store for $80,000 and a 1989 Denver Broncos AFC Championship ring issued to defensive lineman Greg Kagan is listed for $60,000 the asking price for the rings was understandably curious...

For more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/pawn-stars-shop-helps-nab-thief-trying-to-sell-mark-mays-stolen-super-bowl-rings/ar-AAEvu09?ocid=spartandhp

Asking too little can raise suspicions, yet I suspect there was more to it than that.

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The first ever excavation of the main allied field hospital at the Battle of Waterloo has uncovered sawn-off limbs and musket balls fired during a previously unrecorded fight on the steps of the farm where the Duke of Wellington’s medics worked...

The heavy concentration of balls found at the site, fired both from the allied Brown Bess infantry muskets and the smaller calibre French weapons, suggests that a fight also took place there, potentially after Napoleon’s generals ordered a cavalry charge on the grounds of Mont-St-Jean, now an orchard, which lay about 0.3 miles (600 metres) behind the main allied line...

For more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/17/excavation-of-waterloo-field-hospital-unearths-limbs-and-musket-balls

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Soldier From Battle of Waterloo Identified.

Source: See Archaeology.org link below.

,,,  “I think this is a unique case,” he says. “We excavated 120 trenches in this area, covering more than half an acre, and found almost nothing and no other remains.” In fact, the soldier is not just the only one to have been found in this area—he is the first and only British soldier to have fought and died at Waterloo ever discovered on the site. (Another soldier was supposedly found in the early twentieth century; however, later DNA analysis showed that the remains came from two different people and that that “soldier” was a forgery.) Although the soldier’s head and one of his knees were destroyed by a bulldozer, and some of the bones of his hands and feet were damaged either by a plow—the area has long been a wheat field—or perhaps by a battlefield explosion that tore them away, the skeleton is remarkably intact. Bosquet is able to say that he was between 20 and 29 years old, about five feet three inches tall, with a slender frame.... 

Source: See Archaeology.org link below.

For more of that story: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/79-1303/features/535-waterloo-british-soldier-dominique-bosquet

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The Apollo 11 takeoff was projected onto the Washington Monument.  Would have been nice to see.

Here is the link.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+of+apollo+on+washington+monument&view=detail&mid=BE0EC691C7688123122BBE0EC691C7688123122B&FORM=VIRE

Here is more about that.

https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/18/washington-monument-apollo-11-50-anniversary-moon-landing/

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No new storms forming and no significant change to Treasure Coast beach detecting conditions.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

5/21/14 - Lost and Found Rings, Super Bowl Ring, One Ring Not Found Yet, Sebastian Inlet History, and A Couple Rut Busters

 

 

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

A Tiffany engagement ring was lost in the water at Jacksonville Beach.  A year later it was found by a detectorist.  The detectorist noticed the serial number inscribed inside the ring and took it to a Tiffany store, which was able to identify the owners, who then got the ring back.



Rerturned Engagement Ring.
Source of photo and story: Link below.



Returned Super Bowl Ring
Source of photo and story: Link below.

A bottle of champagne was the reward given to the detectorist who returned the engagement ring.

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/05/19/couples-engagement-ring-found-at-the-beach/20888344/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing11%7Cdl11%7Csec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D478272


One thing to notice in this story is that the ring was lost in the water and a year later found by the detectorist.  It is difficult to tell from the story, but it sounds like it was lost in the water but found on the beach.  That could man one of two things.  Either it was lost in very shallow water at high tide and found when the water went down, or it could have washed in from where it was lost.

Here is a story about a Super Bowl Ring that was lost AND found years and years before it was finally returned.

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/05/19/couples-engagement-ring-found-at-the-beach/20888344/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing11%7Cdl11%7Csec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D478272

This one was originally found by eye while swimming.  I often remind people to keep their eyes open while detecting.  You can visually cover a lot more ground than you can cover with a detector coil.

Lost rings can be found a years or decades after they were lost.

Earlier this month I posted the description of a ring lost at Pepper Park.  I wanted to post that again since I have not heard that it has been found yet.

 It was lost Sunday, April 27, at Pepper Park.  The ring has 3 stones across the top, center stone is square and the stones on each side are round! White gold. If you find the ring please contact  crzy4stmpn@aol.com.


I heard a rumor that three gold coins were found a few weeks ago at Bathtub Beach.  That is all I know about that.


Here is a nice brief history of the modern-day Sebastian Inlet district.

http://www.sebastianinletdistrict.com/Inlet_History.html


One reader wrote and said they were in a rut. I suspect others are as well.  Conditions haven't been real good for quite a while.

Here is one rut buster.   Instead of going out to find the easy spots, go out and look for obstacles.   By obstacles I mean things that prevent most people from detecting a specific area and figure out how to overcome those obstacles.

I don't hold much back, but there are some tricks to this that I'm not ready to spell out just yet, but any beach has some small areas where nobody will detect, and those little areas continue to accumulate items day after day, year after year, while all of the other areas are cleaned out on a daily basis.  That is as much as I'll give on that right now.


Bruce Walking Turtle Nightingale?  It seems there were hermaphrodite nurses among the Native Americans in the 16th Century.  At least that was one early explorers interpretation.

http://floridamemory.com/items/show/254323?id=17

I've mentioned the Florida Memory Project before, but as I was recently reminded by one reader, it provides a wealth of interesting and useful materials.


Lights, Camera, Action!  Here is another but more obvious rut-buster.  When you are anywhere, especially at the beach, look to see where the action is.  The more extreme the action, the better.

Some of my best finds have come from places where there was concentrated extreme action, often of a commercial nature. 

For example, is there a place where jet skis are rented, and where inexperienced awkward people get onto and off of a jet ski for the first time and are doing all kinds of foolish things and falling all over the place.


That reminds me, I received another notice from a TV production company planning on doing a treasure hunting type of program.  I thought about possibly doing that one.  It is a bit different.


The surf on the Treasure Coast will be decreasing over the day and for the next couple of days.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/19/11 Report - Religious Medallion From 1715 Fleet, & Hunt for Super Bowl Ring

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

I've shown the front of this medallion before. Laura Strolia, author of the book on the Marigalera of the 1715 Fleet, has done a lot of research on it, and has found that it is Franciscan and shows St. Anthony on the other side. She says there was a Franciscan priest traveling with the 1715 Fleet.

One Side of Medallion from 1715 Fleet Bearing a Prayer.

We are trying to make out the words, which are in Latin. If you can make out any of this, even a single word, please send your thoughts in.

The clearest word that I see, is FACIE, which is Latin for face. Maybe you can pick that out in the photo.

I know its a small photo and difficult enough to make out in person.


Yesterday I mentioned that some people were expecting a drop in gold prices this week. It is certainly starting out that way.


Do you know what the most valuable US coin is? Take a guess.

It is the 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle which sold for $7,590,020 in July of 2002.

Here is an article that argues that rarity is not the only determinant of the price of a rare coin.

If the coin has a publicized history, that often increases its value.

Here is the link to that article.

http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/even-rarities-priced-by-popularity


The other day I mentioned a Super Bowl ring that was lost a number of years ago down in Fort Lauderdale. It turns out the fellow that did some hunting for that ring read the post and sent in his account. The diver was James F. who was contacted by Kevin Reilly, the owner of a metal detector store in Pompano, who was contacted earlier about the ring.

James says he was told that one of the Miami Dolphin's players was celebrating their win against Dallas and had been having a few cold ones aboard somebody's yacht, and when he was trying to get off the boat and onto the dock, his ring came off his finger, rolled along the dock and plunked into the water.

That would give you a sinking feeling, wouldn't it.

James said it was an oily muddy nightmare under the dock. He says, I still remember the weird stares I got as I clomped through the restaurant wearing my scuba tank, BC, mask and my bright orange Whites PI-1000 pulse detector! I didn't think that was any way to keep the operation low-key, but there was no other way to the dock but through the place.

Continuing, James said, It was about fifteen-feet deep below the dock as I descended toward the muddy bottom. I switched on the Whites and scanned the mud. Signals were everywhere. The first one I got, I stuck my arm down into the mud almost up to my armpit and pulled out a broken aluminum flagstaff with a couple of Semaphore flags still attached! Of course this brought the visibility down to absolute zero...literally couldn't see anything at all but brown-black soup. Finally I had to surface, as I had no way to determine where I had searched while in zero visibility...not to mention, I could hear the amplified engines of pleasure boats passing by or above, that scared me half to death.

James said he used a rope with knots in every couple of feet, which I secured on the bottom, and moved along scanning the mud by feeling each knot in the darkness. At any rate, I found a hashish pipe, a women's watch, 200,000 beer cans (well, seemed like it anyway), a pretty nice Zippo lighter, a hair dryer(?), and other metallic junk. The PI-1000 underwater detector had one setting...on or off, and no discrimination settings whatsoever, so you had to sort through every signal you got...try to figure out what it was by feel, or slapping against the Plexiglas on your mask. Two scuba tanks and three hours later, no ring.

James got a few bucks from the shop owner for his efforts and and a day or so later, came down with a raging ear infection that took half a truckload of antibiotics to cure...don't know what was in all the mud, but I'd never go down there again. Maybe somebody younger with newer detector technology might take a crack at it, as I am sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the ring is still down there.

Thanks for the story on that James.


Treasure Coast Beach Conditions and Forecast.

There are two low pressure areas coming off of Africa. The first does not look like it will develop anytime soon, but the second has a 60% chance of developing into a cyclone in the next 48 hours. It is still too far away to say where it will go or what it will do for us.

The wind is from the southeast again, and that means hot humid air again.

The seas are running about 2.5 feet or the next day or two and then will slowly decrease.

That means no real change in conditions real soon.


Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net