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| Henry VI quarter noble minted in London between 1422 and 1427. Courtesy of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Source: See Snithsonian link below. |
Over the summer, an amateur historian in Newfoundland unearthed a 600-year-old gold coin. According to government officials, who announced the find in a statement earlier this month, it was minted in London between 1422 and 1427—and it may be the oldest English coin ever found in Canada...
How the coin made its way to Newfoundland’s coast is likely to remain a mystery; in the meantime, analysis in ongoing, and a more formal archaeological dig may happen later on...
Here is the link for more of the story.
How Did This 600-Year-Old English Coin End Up in Newfoundland? | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
Thanks to William K.
That is something I've talked about. Just because an item is old, doesn't mean it was lost a long time ago. I could pick up an old coin, go out and lose it on the beach tomorrow. I think there are at least a few items found on our Treasure Coast beaches that have been misinterpreted as being from the 1715 Fleet simply because they were found on what we recognize as 1715 Fleet beaches. It is something like Oak Island. All kinds and ages of items are thought of as being somehow related to a single huge historic hoard like there was no other history that ever occurred on the island. And now a copper alloy cut coin, if that is what it really is, and there is very little evidence that it is really a coin except for the opinion of some coin expert that I've never seen on the program, was hypothesized by one team member as possibly being a part of "the" treasure of Oak Island, somehow being lost apart from the main treasure, which was evidently so valuable that a huge effort, including booby-trapped tunnels were constructed all over the island to protect it, and still a copper-alloy coin was imagined as possibly being part of that amazing treasure. Of course, a TV program that runs on for years requires a bigger-than-life story, but doesn't it seem a bit odd that a copper-alloy coin would be a part of one of the most amazing, buried treasures of history. That is a bit like finding a zinc penny on the beach and wondering if it might be a part of some buried hoard of gold.
Speaking of strange TV, if people were walking down the middle of a street in a worn-torn city and the air raid sirens came on, wouldn't you expect to see at least some small reaction instead of an uninterrupted zombie walk without an eye-blink or any kind of orienting response. I'd expect to see some sort of psychophysiological response to a stimulus designed to act as a warning unless it was actually totally expected and staged for the sake of the cameras.
There is no such thing as reality TV. The presence of the camera changes everything. One of my concerns is how modern technology can be used to manipulate perceptions of reality.
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Archaeologists working at a historic battlefield at Gettysburg recently made an explosive find: a live 160-year-old artillery shell that had to be detonated by a specially trained U.S. Army disposal team...The unexploded round they discovered was about 7 inches (18 centimeters) long and weighed about 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms). "There are procedures in place in case such objects are found," Brann explained. Ultimately, the Army's 55th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company (EOD) from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, was called in to remove the shell and destroy it safely.
"Unexploded ordnance still found on the battlefield is a fairly unique circumstance," Jason Martz, a spokesperson for Gettysburg National Military Park, told Live Science in an email. "It's only the fifth found since 1980."
"Most of the objects we find are much smaller, such as percussion caps, bullets, and uniform buttons," Brann said...
Archaeologists find unexploded artillery shell under Gettysburg battlefield | Live Science
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I recently told how switching to pinpoint mode could increase detection depth dramatically. I'll have more on that in the near future.
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Beach conditions haven't changed a lot, but yesterday we had a more brisk south wind for a while.
Good hunting,
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