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| Ancient Coin Cache. Source: See link below. |
In 2019, archaeologists discovered 150 ancient coins in Újlengyel, a Hungarian village that's about 31 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Budapest. Spurred by this discovery and equipped with metal detectors, the archaeologists returned to the site at the end of December 2020 to look for other treasures, according to a Facebook post, from the Ferenczy Museum in Hungary...
In 2020 four late medieval gold coins were discovered along with 7,000 silver coins.
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-gold-coins-discovered-hungary.htm
So what is the lesson to be learned? Where you find some treasure, there might be more.
Like I've often said, "Birds of a feather flock together," That is the concept of signal finds. When you find one, the probability is increased that you can find more.
As you hunt a site, you can keep in your head an imaginary thermometer of the potential of a site. One observation might increase your reading of the likelihood of another find, and the next observation might decrease the probability.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Before the North Carolina Department of Transportation began clearing land for the last leg of the Triangle Expressway, its archeology unit fanned out looking for sites used by North Carolina's original inhabitants.
The scientists found something significant.
"As a result of the survey for this entire corridor, we identified, I believe, it's over 155 sites," said Matt Wilkerson who heads up the NCDOT's archeology unit.One of the most exciting finds unearthed on the dig was a broken and once polished piece of stone with holes drilled in it from about 10,000 years ago...
"Probably a piece of personal adornment, jewelry, if you will," Bamann said, and she added, "it's a two-holed item that someone would have suspended as a piece of personal decoration or ornamentation. At least that's what we believe these items are. So, finding something that's a personal item from someone who lived here, and camped here is, I think, is just one of those things that makes all of this extra interesting because it's a little bit of a glimpse into the past."
Here is the link for more about that.
Artifacts found during 540 project reveal glimpse of NC's ancient past - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham
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How time flies. I don't know if you remember what it was like in January last year, but we were having some erosion and reales and other things were being found. It was a good start to the year that would end well too. So far this year January hasn't been so good for metal detecting. In fact, overall I would say it has been poor. And the worst part of that is all of the beach renourishment projects that will take place this year.
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| Recent View From The Sebastian Web Cam. Submitted by JamminJack. |
The wind is out of the west today. It looks like we'll have another week of very small surf.
Happy hunting,
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