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| Very Small Gold Crucifix Found by LawMan. |
Here is what he had to say about the item.
I just found below [above] also thought it might be something. The item is extremely tiny. Only .42 of a gram. After some cleaning tested as 10K. Just wanted to share.
Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing. Congratulations. That is a tiny one. Good detecting.
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Yesterday I started talking about how and why I developed the spiral search pattern many years ago. I noticed one of the TV detectorists started using it after I described it.
As I said yesterday, I was doing a lot of detecting in rough water, which presents some problems. One problem is the difficulty of maintaining a tight search pattern. It is virtually impossible to execute a tight grid in very rough water. While being jostled around by the rough water, it is difficult to know exacty where you are and what ground you have covered or missed.
Since in rough water you can't see the bottom or the hole, you have to have a way to orient your self. The easiest thing you can use to position yourself is the hole. Once you find the hole, you can stick your foot or scoop in it so you know where you. Keep your back to the shoreline so you will know your directions.
In some cases the item will be deep or otherwise difficult to retrieve. You might have to continue digging for a while, so you will have to keep track of where the hole is. The waves will move you back and forth, so you might have to find the hole several times just to retrieve the target. Not only will you be moved around by the rough water, but the sand can get washed back into the hole too.
Rather than using just your scoop, you might find it helpful to do some foot fanning. That is often a better choice for rapidly moving more sand and retrieving deep targets. There are a few tricks to that too, but I won't get into that now.
Even if you get the item in your scoop, when you lift the scoop, the item can get washed out of the scoope before you get it. That will happen most often when the target is deeper so when you dig it up it will be on the top of the sand in your sccop. Then a waves comes and washes it out. The item can then fall some distance from the hole. Some items will fall farther nearly straight down and others fall farther away from where you were. That also makes it necessary to refind the hole so you know where you are at. That also means you will want to detect around the hole.
And after you retrieved the first item, you will want to check for more items both in the hole and around the hole.
The beginning of the first spiral will have its center at the center of the hole. Be sure to overlap the center of the hole some. After going around one time (blue), you will move out from the center of the hole and detect around the hole again. Since your sweeps will be farther apart out from the hole, you will want to overlap probably about half of your first spiral so you get good coverage as you get out from the center of the hole.
You can continue the spiral pattern as long as you want, continually moving out from the hole. If you make more finds either in the hole or outside the the hole, you might choose at any time to make the new hole the center of new spirals. That leads to a linked spiral pattern.
The benefit of the spiral pattern in rough shallow water is that you use the hole, which you can find by feel to orient yourself and get good thorough coverage.
Of course, as I've described before, the spiral pattern will help you identify if there is a pattern or path of finds. In water, like on land, spills will often scatter in one direction. The linked spiral pattern can be used both on land and in the water. It is much easier on land where you can quickly see your holes rather than feeling for them and struggling to stay put.
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JERUSALEM — Israeli government archaeologists say they have discovered tiny fragments of an ancient biblical scroll near the Dead Sea, the first time in more than 60 years that Dead Sea Scroll parchments were discovered in a professional excavation and not by looters.
The archaeologists also found a 6,000-year-old mummified child and what they think is the world's oldest fully intact basket, dating back about 10,500 years.
The artifacts were found in an arid desert region where the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of parchments and papyri including the world's oldest copies of biblical texts dated between the third and first centuries B.C., were first discovered in the 1940s and 50s.
The new discoveries were a result of a massive Israeli government operation to excavate hundreds of caves along the Dead Sea to find more scrolls...
Here is the link for more about that.
Archaeologists Discover More Dead Sea Scroll Fragments : NPR
Now there is an appropriate use of archaeology. You might remember the article entitled, What Archaeologists Found at Woodstock. You might also remember the post I did entitled The Trouble With Archaeology.
For me that would be the kind of thing I'd most like to find - and it isn't even metal. Funny how your preferences change over the years. I think most people start out wanting to find the most valuable or expensive things. Maybe later in life they want to find something that is significant in another way. Different people like different things. And you might find your interests changing over time.One thing that makes something like The piece of scroll desirable to me is all the research it leads to. There is the puzzle and all of the deciphering. For me it is more about that kind of thing than finding something valuable. Of course old shipwreck coins present a puzzle and lead you to new and fascinating information too. That is more true as you learn more about them and learn toreally appreciate them.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
Looks like we might get somethng very much like what we had a couple weeks ago. A four to seven foot surf is some improvement. I liked the earlier 7 - 10 foot predictions better. Of course the direction of the swells will largely determine how productive that becomes.
Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net