1/3/2021 Report - One Great Find: Navigational Dividers. Smaller Surf Today.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Four Detectorists At Turtle Trail Friday.

Conditions haven't been what they were back in October and November, but with the wind and four foot or so surf, not bad.

DJ submitted his best find of 2020, and it is a very good one.  I should have posted it a day or two sooner.  In fact, maybe I should have done a post on the best finds of 2020, but I guess a lot of them were mentioned in my list of most read posts of the year.

Navigational Dividers Recently
Found by DJ On The Treasure Coast.

DJ said, Finally, here is my best of 2020. Followed a line of pyramid sinker followed by the copper chunk and then the dividers. I was following your advice of sampling and the “line” of similar items. Thanks for that advice!

Dividers and Some of the Finds Leading To Them.

You can see similar navigational dividers found on the Nieves site in the illustration below.

Source: Contributions of the Florida State Museum (link below).

The illustration is found in Contributions of the Florida State Museum, Social Sciences, No. 12, A 1715 Spanish Treasure Ship, by Carl J. Clausen, University of Florida, Gainesville, May 1965. 

Here is the link.

Contributions of the Florida State Museum (ufl.edu)

The same paper provides much more good information and illustrations of many other artifacts.  Highly recommended for anyone interested in the 1715 Fleet.

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I've been doing some visual surface scanning and found a few interesting items.  One was a very nice old heavily embossed bottle that was too badly damaged to be worth anything, but it was still of interest to me.

I've seen several old bottles that would have been very nice finds if they weren't so badly damaged.  

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The surf is down today and will be for a couple more days.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.

Happy hunting in 2021.

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