3/29/21 Report - More Relic Hunting. Big Back Yard Fossil Find. Maya Salt Trade. Bigger Surf Coming.

 

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Railroad Construction.
Source: Gettyimages - Underwood Archives.

Since I've been digging up lots of railroad items in an lot that was partially cleared, I did a little research and found the photo above.  Notice the keg in the foreground.  I've found hoops and wire loops from a keg similar to that.  Also notice the heads on the hammers.  I found four of those in a group.  I showed those in a previous post.

I spent some time detecting the lot Sunday too, but didn't have as much luck.   Still using the Ace. '

I did find one more of the tin cups, which was very similar to the previous one but slight different size.

Tin Cups Found On Recently Cleared Lot.

Both have holes where the handle was attached.  Maybe they were discarded after breaking, but I can't be sure of that yet. I haven't found any handles so far.

I also found some more loops from kegs and a one or two more spikes and rail anchors.

I'm still looking for an old coin or marked railroad item, but so far have mostly been clearning out the big stuff.  There is iron everywhere, and a lot of wire from kegs and fences or whatever.  It is difficult to find the better smaller items when there is so much ground clutter.

Most of us are not really relic hunters.  Beach hunting is much more comfortable and less dirty and grimy.  

In relic hunting there are a lot of bugs, dirt, leaves, twigs, and nasty roots that seem to entangle everything you try to dig.  It is a different kind of hunting.

There are some similarities though.  Some of the things I always say are still true.  Birds of a feather flock together.  If you find one of a thing, the chances are much higher that you'll find another.  I've found several groups of things, and now found the second tin cup.

In one old post in the treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com I posted the results of several polls and found that  overall your chances of finding a cob is relatively low, but if you find one, the chances are several times greater that you will find more than one.  

For example, lets say that 10 of a 100 people (10%) who detect found a cob on a particular day.  It would not be uncommon  for something like 4 of those people (40%) to find more than one cob.  The point being that if you find one of something, the chances are much greater that you will find more of the same thing.  I often sum that up by saying birds of a feather flock together.  It also illustrates what I have called the signal or "sign" value of a find.

Here is a link to the results of one such poll.

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 11/29/13 Report - November Treasure Coast Finds and Poll Results

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Source: See The Guardian link below.

A six-year-old boy has found a fossil dating back millions of years in his garden after receiving a fossil-hunting kit for Christmas...

“I was just digging for worms and things like pottery and bricks and I just came across this rock which looked a bit like a horn, and thought it could be a tooth or a claw or a horn, but it was actually a piece of coral which is called horn coral. I was really excited about what it really was.” ...

 

Here is the link.  Thanks to DJ.

Boy finds fossil up to 500m years old in his West Midlands garden | Fossils | The Guardian

Never overlook your own yard.  Not only is it a good place to practice, there also might be a surprise.

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BATON ROUGE – The first documented record of salt as an ancient Maya commodity at a marketplace is depicted in a mural painted more than 1,000 years ago at Calakmul, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. In the mural that portrays daily life, a salt vendor shows what appears to be a salt cake wrapped in leaves to another person, who holds a large spoon over a basket, presumably of loose, granular salt. This is the earliest known record of salt being sold at a marketplace in the Maya region. Salt is a basic biological necessity and is also useful for preserving food. Salt also was valued in the Maya area because of its restricted distribution.

Salt cakes could have been easily transported in canoes along the coast and up rivers in southern Belize, writes LSU archaeologist Heather McKillop in a new paper publishes in the Journal of Anthropoloical Archaeology.  She discovered in 2004 the first remnants of ancient Maya salt kitchen buildings made of pole and thatch that had been submerged and preserved in a saltwater lagoon in a mangrove forest in Belize. Since then, she and her team of LSU graduate and undergraduate students and colleagues have mapped 70 sites that comprise an extensive network of rooms and buildings of the Paynes Creek Salt Works...

Here is the link for more about that.

 Worth One’s Salt (lsu.edu)

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This is rediculous.  Lets face it - there is no legal system.  The laws are only for getting whoever the administration wants to get, but if you are on their side you can commit any crime and not be prosecuted.  

Oregon: Patriot group gathered for a flag wave attacked by Antifa | GOPUSA

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Still looks like we will get a rougher surf.  The tides are bigger now.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.

Happy hunting,

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