Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.After a long summer of building beaches, this surf report is encouraging. It looks like we'll have three or four days of big surf. The surf will start to build Sunday.
Of course it takes more than a big surf, but a big surf can be enough if it washes the face of the dunes. And if we get some good angles and erosion to the front beaches, we might get a good shot at some old shipwreck coins. Right now it looks like it could be the best chance for some good beach metal detecting conditions that we've seen for months. The predictions are for a lot of ENE winds. I'd rather see north or north/northeast, but it is the most promising prediction I've seen for a while.
The surf we'll be getting is from Teddy, which is headed north and will be no threat to make land fall anywhere near us, so I don't think we'll have to worry about closed beaches and bridges.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Archaeologists in Mexico said Tuesday they have identified a ship that carried Mayan people into virtual slavery in the 1850s, the first time such a ship has been found.
The wreck of the Cuban-based paddle-wheel steamboat was found in 2017, but wasn’t identified until researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History checked contemporary documents and found evidence it was the ship “La Unión.”
The ship had been used to take Mayas captured during an 1847-1901 rebellion known as “The War of the Castes” to work in sugarcane fields in Cuba.
Slavery was illegal in Mexico at the time, but operators of similar ships had reportedly bought seized captured combatants, or deceived Mayas left landless by the conflict to “sign on” as contract workers, often in Cuba, where they were treated like slaves...
Here is the link for more of that story.
https://apnews.com/b3288e313576b99153052a3f3b512d28
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Archaeologists examining a recently discovered colonial tavern in eastern North Carolina were stunned to discover that when the 18th Century building burned to the ground a “treasure trove of merchandise” was trapped beneath the charred floorboards, and many of the artifacts hint at the building’s use as a brothel.Dr. Charles Ewen, who led the dig with teams of students from East Carolina University, discovered that the 1760s fire had caused the tavern’s walls to collapse onto the floors, effectively sealing the crawl space “like a time capsule,” according to a report in the Miami Herald...
Here is the link for that story.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/colonial-tavern-0012147
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I've been spending some time with micro-fossils lately. Some beach rocks hold small small fossils that require magnification to see. Some are on the surface of the rock, but others are deeply embedded so the rock must be dissolved in acid to free them.
I've just been experimenting with that process to see what kind of micro-fossils I can find on Treasure Coast beaches.
I'm glad to see some good surf being predicted.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net