1//30/13 Report - Early Maps of Florida, Rare 1913 Nickel & Swizzle Sticks

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Did you know there is a currently heated debate about renaming the barrier island south of Cape Canaveral?  There is. 

And did you know that some are recognizing 2013 as the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Florida by Europeans?  An earlier map, however, shows that Europeans mapped Florida several

1/29/13 Report - More Bottle and Glass Finds & Wreck of the Hunley

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Small Bottle Found Yesterday

Yesterday I showed a couple of bottles that I ran across.  I decided to go out again to see if I could find anymore - maybe better ones.   I did find a few more bottles and things, but not anything very good.  It was worth taking the time to check.

When you find one type of

1/28/13 Report - Bottles and History Found

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Ink Bottle Found Yesterday

One thing leads to another.  That is today's subtitle, and it sure is true when hunting in the field or conducting research.

Someone recently told me they would like to see a photo of an Alfar Dairy bottle.  I was going to do that promptly but had a couple more half pint

1/27/13 Old or New? Don't Assume. Gold Chalice. 1812 Battle

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Gold Chalice From Margarita Wreck Site
Photo from Mel Fisher Organization via email.

Beach detecting conditions remain poor on the Treasure Coast.  The surfing web sites are predicting a 1 - 2 foot surf today.  That will allow you to work the low tide or shallow water fairly easily.

Low tide will be

1/26/13 Report - Sand Continues to Accumulate While They Dump Even More

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Cannon I saw the other day.

I saw this cannon Thursday and it reminded me of the cannon that sat in Central Park in New York for years before they discovered it was loaded.


Robert K. found a web site that identified the star fish I showed in a post the other day.  It is actually a  Luidia

1/24/13 Report - On Cleaning Old Dug Silver Coins & More

I'm going to talk about that coin I dug Monday again.  I wasn't going to but when I cleaned it up I saw some neat things I wanted to show.


Same Spanish Silver Coin Dug Monday After Being Cleaned


I used Bill Popp's coin cleaning instructions as found in my treasure coins link list.  I diluted some acid and put the coin in the acid for a short while.  I then used baking soda.

If you haven't

1/23/13 Report - True Identity of Dug Spanish Silver Coin

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Partially Cleaned Dug Coin

Yesterday I was talking about this coin that I was trying to identify.  It is still not very clean, but it is now clean enough that I have figured out what it is.

One small thing that originally made me think it was a fake treasure coin when I first saw it was a very shiny

1/22/13 Report - Dug Coins & Beach Filling

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I don't know what happened, but I noticed that yesterday's post, which should have appeared in the morning, wasn't there when it should have been.  I went back and fixed that, but it was late Monday before I got it fixed.  Sorry about that.





Beach Monday Morning

Some days you have to wear your long

1/21/13 Report - Time to Bust Out & Easy Silver

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Dan B. recently found this lump.   Of course he didn't know what was inside but was curious, as he should have been.  You never know.

See if you can guess what is in there.  I'll show the cleaned item(s) below.


I don't think most people take the time to check for silver coins in their change.  One way

1/19/13 Report - Some Cutting on the Treasure Coast From Last Night

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This Morning Near Low Tide on the Treasure Coast

Last night it was pretty windy.  This morning I took a look near low tide and some sand had been moved.  One of the primary treasure beaches on the Treasure Coast was scalloped.

Here is a photo of what I saw.  The beach was scalloped for a at least a

1/18/13 Report - BIGGGG Gold Nugget & Front Coming Through

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Gold Nugget Found With Metal Detector
From BBC linked story. 

How's that for a gold nugget?  177 ounces, found by a man with a metal detector, and the largest by far known to prospectors in the area.

Here is the link to the article.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21055206

Link submitted by

1/17/13 Report - More on the CSS Alabama, Books & Vero Coin Show

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Alabama and Kearsarge
Photo From US Naval History Center

2013 is marching right along at a peppy pace and the first month is more than half gone.

I want to follow up on yesterday's post in which I posted a link to a site showing a 3-D image of the wreck of the USS Hatteras in the Gulf of Mexico and

1/16/12 Report - CSS Alabama & USS Hatteras & Dating Bottles

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Lieutenants Armstrong and Sinclair on the Deck ofthe CSS Alabama Next to 32 Pounder.
See below for more on this.

I always look for signs and clues to treasure.  As I've mentioned before, one of the first signs that you will often see that might hint of the presence of other old items is ceramics, glass

1/15/13 Report - How to Avoid Some Treasure Scams & More

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Here is an article from Florida ScubaNews.com -  Dan Sedwick: Where Does Sunken Treasure Go?  It is a good introductory article.



Dug Gold Ear Ring 

http://www.scubanews.com/node/26


I mentioned the Craigslist lost and found section the other day.  I noticed a few listings that I suspect are scams. 

1/14/13 Report - Gold and Bloosdstone, Loaded Cannon & Lost and Found

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Gold and Bloodstone Ring Found with Metal Detector

I mentioned the other day that now they sometimes actually mount diamonds on silver rings.  Well, I was just at Sams Club and noticed that they are also mounting diamonds on steel rings these days.  It is not safe to assume that if you find a ring

1/13/13 Report - Treasure Coast Pirate

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Illustration of Don Pedro Gibert's Pirate Ship Panda
From free ebook.  Link found below.


A few days ago I provided a link to an old out-of-copyright collection of anthropology papers, which among other thing,s, presented articles on Indian mounds around Florida and other states.  Some included maps

1/11/12 Report - Some Dug Finds & Club Meeting

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Cross Metal Detector Find.

 This cross was recently found.  It is heavily encrusted, especially at the top and bottom which have a thick rock-like build up.   Enough of the encrustation has been removed from the middle part to see the triangle and eye symbols.

It is hard to know how to clean this one

1/10/13 Report - Silver and Dumping Money in the Ocean

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1.825 Ounces of Silver Dug Yesterday

If you really watch the beach you know that it changes everyday.  It constantly changes.  The casual visitor might not notice that, but it's true.   As a detectorist, it is helpful to notice the small changes that take place constantly.

On the beach front where

1/9/13 Report - Rosaries and Stuff

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Yesterday I posted a photo of a dug copper rosary center piece.  Laura Strolia, researcher and author of The Marigalera of the 1715 Fleet and who has contributed a lot of good information to this blog, sent this photo of two rosaries from the museum of the National Shrine of St. Therese in Illinois.

1/8/13 Report. - Shipwreck Spike and Rosary Center Piece

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Dug Old Copper MedalBack and Front


As you probably know, I've been having trouble uploading photos to my blog lately.  It seems there was a new compatibility issue between blogger and Internet Explorer.  Until the engineers get the problem worked out, the temporary fix is to use a browser other than

1/8/13 Report - Found Shipwreck Spike and Cross & Good Reference

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Above is a video of the beach conditions at John Brooks this morning near low tide.  The wide angle lens on this camera creates an artificial bend in the picture and I think makes the waves look a little smoother than actual.  Nonetheless, this will give you some idea.

There was some wind from

1/6/13 Report - A Few Comparisons of Beach and Shallow Water Hunting

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There is very little shallow water detecting done along the Treasure Coast ocean beaches.  One of the reasons for that is that most of the shallow water on the ocean is protected by salvage or exploration leases.  

Please don't write in and ask me to tell you where you can and where you can not detect

1/5/13 Report - Sand Accumulating But Miscellaneous Items Being Found On Beach Fronts

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I've been pretty busy lately and haven't been getting out to the beach much.  Fortunately I got out this morning. 

It was an overcast day.  The water was just a little rougher than it has been.

There were some fairly large shell piles at places containing some moderate size shells.  Most of the time

1/3/13 Report - Gem Stones, Jet & Coal

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Beach 14K Ring Find With Large Stone

I don't think detectorists pay much attention to stones.  Paying attention to stones can be helpful though.  First, there are gem stones - some of which are more valuable than the gold in the ring, but it can be difficult to identify the type of stone but even more

1/2/13 Report - Religious Medals And a Few Clues on How to Date

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Dug Religious Medallion

Many goods were shipped to the New World from Spain in large quantities.   Among items supplied to the New World were a lot of religious items.  Although Spain was protective of trade with the New World colonies, it could not supply all that was needed and imported many items