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| Jensen Beach Thursday Afternoon. |
As you can see Jensen beach wasn't newly eroded, but there were some people in the surf.
Not a bad metal detecting beach, but there are a lot of detectorists that hit that beach regularly. I still like the area, and would definitely detect around there if I was down that way more often.
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| Jensen Beach Thursday Afternoon. |
One person found some gold walking across a shopping center parking lot Wednesday.
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| Eyeballed Gold Earring. Photo by Joyce H. |
This gold earring was eyeballed in a parking lot. It is marked 14K. If you are in the habit of looking for things, you'll undoubtedly make a few finds like that.
I always like eyeballing and wrote a couple articles on the subject for treasure magazines back years ago. I've also talked about it in this blog.
For example, see https://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2011/09/9611-report-visual-detecting-mule-train.html
(Don't forget - years of old posts are still available at the treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com site.)
Some things can not be found by a metal detector, such as bottles, shells and fossils, but you might be surprised how many metallic objects you can find visually. If you can really read a beach, a you can find coins that way. I've talked to some beach walkers who have accumulated a good collection of coins just walking along a beach every morning. That is much easier in a busy area like Miami.
I always liked eyeballing. It is challenging. Obviously it is much more difficult to find coins on a beach visually than using a detector. As obvious as that is, if you really know how to read a beach and look in the right spots, you will find coins visually, such as at the bottom of a cut or at the edge of the surf as they get uncovered. A good wind will uncover coins sometimes too.
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In addition to those I already posted, I received a good number of thoughts about the mystery lead object, but there was no consensus.
Law W. said,
To me, that looks like a civil war timeframe trench art/weapon; perhaps a boot knife. These would be made from melted down bullets in the down times. I have seen lead knuckles and other type objects on the web.
JamminJack was intrigued by the object, having the feeling that he had seen something like it before. Here are some of his ideas.
I never been intrigue by an object as this one. The reason is I have seen this before, but cannot figure where I have seen it.I checked US & Foreign Car
Emblems, Appliances, etc. There were a lot of old cars dumped in the ocean for barriers to keep subs from coming in.
It could be military related. A lot of German Badges were made of lead.
Possibly, Soviet Space, etc.
Civil War and post Civil War had many emblems made of lead.
It could be part of an old toy plane, shuttle, etc. No holes for attachment may wipe any of my theories, but it rings a bell.
I think more modern then super old, but hopefully someone will be able to identify the object.
Jack sent some other ideas, including a stylized corn symbol, and concluded with the following note.
Now, I remember what it reminded me of. A long time ago I took my nephew to the annual Medieval Festival held at our fairground. I remember he was given an object similar to one shown. The face would be the round part and the 3 points were part of the hat.John L. sent the following thoughts.
This would leave me to believe this more worn triangular section was meant to pierce ground, thus making the object a type of fancy ground marker, or perhaps a golf ball marker, or even a fancy little decoration for a potted plant, especially a poinsettia as the object looks like a little Christmas tree!
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
The NHC map is pretty clean now. The wave of the islands has finally disappeared.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |