4/30/13 Report - 4000 Year-Old Gold Beads, Coins In Pond, & British Surveyor's Camps On Treasure Coast

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Coins At Bottom of Pond When Water Was Lowered.

I was on a little trip yesterday and ran across a pond where the water had been lowered.  The spot shown in the photo was by a bridge where people evidently threw in or dropped coins.  With the water lowered you could see these coins on the surface. 

4/29/13 Report - Small Gold Find, Battle of Okeechobee & Vero Fossils

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Small 14K Charm Find From
a Treasure Coast Beach.

There were a lot of beach goers this weekend.  It looked like everybody was either on the beach or in a boat.

Even though conditions for finding old shipwreck items haven't been good, you can still pick up some other things.  

Here is one small gold

4/27/13 Report - Infantry Button Find, More on Beach Holes, Gold Rush & More

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I've been hearing from people that have been taking some of my advice lately.  It seems like some are taking the opportunity of the poor beach conditions to expand their horizons and try some new things and some new areas. 

That can really pay off.

This infantry button is a nice find by William M., who

4/26/13 Report - Petrotoons, Small Gold Find, & One Item That Will Help You Date a Detecting Site.

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Long before The Simpsons were on TV
there was...

Photo from the ArtDaily article
 linked at the left.

I hope you'll forgive my attempt at humor today.  Here is a five hundred year old Homer Simpson.

Seriously though, is there reason to believe they didn't do cartoons?  Surely they had a sense of

4/25/13 Report - Gold and Bolt Finds & Links to Lots of Good Research Material

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Couple Recent Treasure Coast
Beach Finds.

Different areas provide different detecting opportunities.  The Treasure Coast provides a chance to find something from a Spanish galleon or later shipwreck as well as a few more modern coins and jewelry items.  While other areas provide more bling, the

4/24/13 Report - British Salvage Camp on Treasure Coast & More on Beach Holes

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60th Regiment of Foot Button.
Photo from the Worthpoint link below.

You probably know something about the Spanish salvage camps that worked the 1715 Fleet wrecks immediately after the disaster, but did you know that there was also a British salvage camp on the Treasure Coast?

There is a lot of

4/23/13 Report - Gairsoppa Silver Exhibit, Bigger Surf Coming & News On Digging Holes

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According to a Globe Newswire story (Tampa, Fla., April 17,2013), as a part of a multi-media traveling exhibit, Odyssey Marine Exploration will present to the public for the first time, silver recovered from the SS Gairsoppa along with hundreds of authentic artifacts and historical treasures recovered

4/22/13 Report - Shipwreck Planks and Wood Preservation, Plans to Make Digging on the Beach Illegal & More

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Shipwreck Plank With Square Bronze Spikes.
Photo submitted by Jason T.



Jason found this piece of shipwreck plank complete with spikes while scuba diving.   It was wedged up under a reef.  It has two complete bronze spikes still intact with
a nice green patina as well as some broken spikes.

4/21/13 Report - Pirate Henry Jennings & Coprous Shipwreck Beach Finds

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A Sample of Treasure Coast Cuprous
Shipwreck Beach Finds.

People who hunt the Treasure Coast most often think of Spanish galleons.  That's mostly what the Treasure Coast is known for, especially the 1715 Fleet.  But sometimes old shipwreck items are found on Treasure Coast beaches that do not seem to

4/20/13 Report - Don't Forget the Treasure Hunters Cookout at Noon Today.

 

I might add more to this post later today if I get time, but I wanted to make sure to remind you of the cookout at noon today.

 

Have fun.

4/19/13 Report - Ben Franklin's Privateers, Old Salvage Camps & Passing It On

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Bob K. Passing It On.
Submitted by Bob K.

I talk about layers a lot.  As you watch a beach come and go, it will lay down and then take away layers of sand time after time.

You can easily see the various layers sometimes when you look at the face of the dunes or at the face of a cut on the beach. 

4/18/13 Report. Quick Little Trip to the Beach This Morning & Working Swash Clusters

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Silver Ring Dug in Swash Cluster Today

I went out to the beach this morning to see what if anything was going on.  The first beach I looked at looked very poor.  I didn't bother to detect at all there and moved on to the beach where I've been working the swash cluster where I found the copper (

4/17/13 Report - Armour Pierceing Cannon Ball from the Mary Rose, 1914 D Penny to Look For, & Tracking Treasure

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Photo From the Current Issue of The Telegraph.
See link below.

The 150-foot Mary Rose sank in 1545 during a battle with the French, killing 500 sailors on board.

Layers of
silt preserved the ship until it was salvaged in 1982.

A museum for the ship will open later this year presenting thousands

4/16/13 Report - Treasure of the San Miguel, Mystery Item, and Gold Dust & Nuggets

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Robert K. Gold Dredging.
Photo submitted and rights owned by Robert K.

I've said before that the readers of this blog have a lot of experience. 

Here is one, Robert K. doing some gold dredging.

 

Nice photo Robert.  That looks like a lot of fun.

 

I always recommend participating in as many

4/15/13 Report - Small Cut and Small Finds

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Small Cut Found on Treasure Coast Beach Saturday Afternoon.

I went out for a little while Saturday afternoon around low tide.  The tide was fairly low and I wanted to check out the swash cluster where I found the copper spike a few days before.   I was interested to see if the cluster was still open

4/13/13 Report - No More Sandys, Less Obvious Detecting Sites, Gold Drops & More

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The World Meteorological Organization retired the name Sandy.  No more storms will be named Sandy.  

Read what made Sandy so unusual.

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/sandy-retired-20130411


Russ P. asked a few questions about my discussion of what I called swash clusters.  He pointed

4/12/13 Report - Hurricane Season 2013, Fort Capron Lost Payroll History & More

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First, it isn't hurricane season yet, but it is the season when they make predictions about hurricane season.  The predictions are out.

They are predicting 50 percent more activity this year than normal - 18 named storms, 9 hurricanes and 4
major hurricanes.
  Who knows where they will go?  Or if it

4/11/13 Report - Gold Coin From Fort Capron Payroll Cache, Reaction of Metals to Salt Water, Fort Pierce Project & More

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Nice Gold Coin Found North of Fort Old Pierce Inlet
Part of Fort Capron Payroll Treasure.
Currently listed for sale in the current Sedwick treasure auction.
 

Here is a nice gold coin that was found north of Pepper Park back a few decades ago.  It was lost when a boat bringing the payroll for Fort

4/10/13 Report - St. Lazarus Medallion, Rosario of the Tierra Firma Fleet, & Treasure Coast Beach Conditions

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Gold Medallion Metal Detector Find Identified..


First, I found out about the medallion that I showed yesterday.  It depicts St. Lazarus.  Fred D., my fossil expert, gave me that answer. 

Thanks Fred!

St. Lazarus is described in Luke 16:20 - 16:31, where Jesus tells about a beggar named Lazarus,

4/9/13 Report - Winter Beach Site, Halo Effect, Gold Found & Registry

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I think most people know about the Spanish salvage camp that was located just to the north of  the present day McClarty museum, but some may not know about the Winter Beach salvage camp that was used in the days following the wreck of the 1715 Fleet.  That camp was located approximately 2.6 miles south of

4/8/13 Report - Swash Cluster Illustrated

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1714 Mexico 8 Escudo in Current
Sedwick Coins Auction.

To the right is one of the escudos expected to sell for $10,000 or more that is up for sale in the current online Sedwick Coins Treasure Auction.

You can see the last three digits of the date, as well as the mint mark (oM) and the Assayer

4/6/13 Report - Sudden Erosion Appears on the Treasure Coast & More on Swash Clusters.

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Rio Mar Today.
Submitted by Dan B.

The wind shifted this morning.  It was coming out of the north/northeast and we had some erosion.

To the right you can see some cuts at Rio Mar.  Thanks Dan!

And below is Normandy Beach and the new sand at Jensen Beach leaving already.

Joan T. sent those photos. 

4/5/13 Report - Copper Spike Found & How to Hunt a Swash Cluster

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Here is an old and broken copper shipwreck spike dug yesterday.

Notice the heavy green patina and where the patina rubbed off of the corner.

This one shows a lot of heavy wear besides the recent corner rubbing.

Below (left) the same piece of spike is shown with a couple of iron spikes and a piece of

4/4/13 Report - Annual Treasure Hunter's Cookout, Franklin County History & More on Mystery Objects

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Here is the poster for this years Treasure Hunter's Cookout which is coming up soon.

Contact John for more information.  His phone number is at the bottom of the poster.

 




I was talking about detecting outside the box yesterday.  There are out-of-the-way places in Florida that are fun to explore too

4/3/13 Report - Treasure Coast Gold Ring Find, Pizarros Men, US Galatin & More

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14K Gold Ring Detector Find This Morning

I went on a little hunt this morning at one of those out of the way places where not too many people go. 

There are places where everybody hunts, and then there are places that are seldom detected.  The seldom detected places might not have the largest number

4/2/13 Report - Dug Mystery Objects, Beach Renourishment Sand & 17th Century Shipwreck

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Three Dug Mystery Objects
Submitted by Doug Y.


I always like a good mystery.  This appears to be one. 

Here is what Doug told me.

We found them on a site on west St. Andrews Bay in the Panhandle. The
depths found for each was apprx. 12-14 inches for 2 and a bit deeper on the
other.  I took one

4/1/13 Report - Jensen Beach Renourishment Project, Beach Sifters & More

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Jensen Beach
From the Jensen Beach Web Cam





Beautiful, isn't it?   I didn't think I was going to have an April Fool's joke today, but this is it.  I promise you there are no other April Fools jokes in this post.

The picture isn't the joke.- that is perfectly real.  The joke part is saying that it is