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| John Brooks Monday Before Just Before Low Tide. |
The weather is beautiful and the beaches are beautiful, unless you are interested in finding some of that treasure that made the Treasure Coast famous.
Above you see a little superficial cut running along the high tide mark. We are having the first Super Moon of 2021 and the tide changes are pretty big. You can see a big distance between the low tide and high tide marks. There is very little surf to go along with the big tides.
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| John Brooks Beach Monday Just Before Low Tide. |
Very mushy sand. The waves are hitting the beach straight on. No angle at all.
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| John Brooks Beach Monday Just Before Low Tide. |
In front of the beach you can see where the sand is stirred up. The beache will continue to build.
Back on the Indian River Ridge site, metal keeps coming out of the earth.
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| Dug Handle. |
As you can see, there is still big stuff coming from the small cleared lot I've been detecting. Above is a handle that just came out of the ground. For a second, I thought it was going to be a bicycle frame. Too much watching American Pickers.
Below is a bunch of the heavy iron from the cleared area about of only about a half acre or less, and some areas still haven't been covered.
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| Dug Railroad Spikes, Bolts, Nuts, Rail Anchors, Plates, etc. With most of the big stuff removed from some areas, I'm starting to get into some of the smaller finds. Here are a few of those. |
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On the left is a thin lead strip. In the middle is an electrical wire connector. I had those kind of connectors on my pre-WWII Lionel model trains. You insert a stripped end of a wire into the little loop and the spring action of the other piece keeps it firmly attached.
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| Dug H and A Gilbey Gin Half Pint Bottle. |
I've dug a couple liquor bottles from that site. They that metal caps or neck rims. Nothing good. Also a few other bottles have surfaced while digging metal items. This one should be fairly easy to date within a narrow range when I get around to it.
The other day I was talking about the railroad discarding items on property along the tracks. of the dates that occurred and who owned the property then. It could have been owned by the railroad or sold. I think it was at some time part of a pineapple plantation and then sold for home sites.
I thought of the pineapple fields when I dug the three scythe blades, but they would have needed those to clear land for the railroad too. I suspect they belong with the other items and are railroad related, but have no good evidence for that.
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| Pineapple Plantation Along the Indian River Source: FloridaStories.onecell.com. |
I read that the first pineapple slips were planted in the area around 1881, not far off the time the railroad came through. I'm pretty sure the area was once part of a pineapple plantation.
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Did you see the Super Moon last night?
More beautiful weather expected, but not much surf.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net.