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| Varietyof Great Metal Detector Finds by Scott B. |
I often say there is always some place to hunt and something to find. Recently I've been showing old post featuring a variety of types of finds. The finds shown above were found by Scott B. in north Florida. Along with photos of finds, Scott sent the following email message.
Happy new year to you and your readers. Thank you so much for keeping the blog going, I look forward to reading it daily, as well as your great perspective on current events.
I wanted to send a few pictures of some finds from north Florida (Nassau County) since things have been a bit slow on the Treasure Coast. The last couple of times I’ve been to the Treasure Coast, there is so much renourishment sand, I don’t know if I’ll ever find any 1715 history. Anyway, you often try to encourage your readers to search different areas when things are slow at your favorite spots, so attached are some recent finds near an old shipping area close to where I live and I have permission to hunt.
In the first picture, there are three buttons, one of which is a military button from I believe the early 1800's. It is pretty toasted and may not be too visible, but if you look close enough, the eagle is there. The next picture shows the back of the buttons.
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| Front and Back Views of Three Dug Buttons. Photos by Scott B. |
In the third picture (shown at top of post), there were 15 musket balls in one area. If you look close enough, it appears the muskets were never completely finished, as the sprues were never fully removed, so it looks like they were made there and left. There are also two smaller musket balls, a spoon handle, some sheet copper from the bottom of a ship (with a copper nail still attached), a piece of escutcheon with a dragon (not sure if it is escutcheon or a dragon) and two other items that may have come from an umbrella, but I’m not sure about that either (If anyone has any additional information, I hope they will share their knowledge).
The next picture is a closer up of the dragon and spoon handle.
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| Finds by Scott B. |
The last two pictures are the bases of some old bottles. I’m not a bottle expert, but the lower one was obviously attached to the tool the bottle maker used, it looks like the glass was smoothed over after removing the tool from the molten glass. There are numerous bubbles in the glass, the width isn’t uniform, and the glass is an old green color.
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| Bases of Two Bottles Found by Scott B. |
Hopefully we’ll get some good surf in the near future to improve conditions on the Treasure Coast. Thanks so much for all you do.
Thanks for sharing, Scott. Great finds.
I found a very good match for the serpent sideplate in my 1997 Dixie Gun Works catalog. You can see it below.
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| Serpent Sideplates as Shown in 1997 Dixie Gun Works Catalog. |
Notice the description and reference to Indian Trade muskets, etc.
If anyone can add information or comments on Scott's finds, I'd be pleased to receive them.
Those odd round shaped things look familiar, but I'm not coming up with the answer on them right off.
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It is a good time of year to metal detect some of those overgrown areas. This time of the year, and with the dry weather we've been having, those areas are not as thick with brush and vines as they will be later in the year. I know one place I want to check before the hot humid weather returns.
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Real shocker that they found logs and wood in the swamp at Oak Island. The only thing less surprising to find in a swamp than wood is mud and water. And if there was a storm, which would be common up there, where do you think the flotsam and jetsam would end up? That area would be a natural collector of flotsam and jetsam, including any wood tossed up by storms over the years. Oh, wait a minute. I forgot that it is probably all bubbling up from a galleon sunk in the swamp or something like that.
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| Source; MagicSeaWeed.com. |
So, looks like a bigger surf on Sunday, along with some north winds.
Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net