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| Source: See CNN.com link beow. |
Sargassum has been heavy on a lot of Florida beaches lately. You've seen it in a lot of my beach photos lately, and the above photo shows it near Jensen Beach.
Sargassum is a catchall term that can be used to refer to more than 300 species of brown algae, although Sargassum natans and Sargassum fluitans are the two species most commonly found in the Atlantic...
Here is a link for more about Sargassum.Sargassum seaweed blob heading to Florida explained | CNN
Seaweed is typically a bad sign for the beach detectorist, indicating that light materials are being deposited on the beach. There have been times, though relatively rare, when the seaweed has just been depostied over an area worth detecting.
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The settlement identified by Biezeveld and Kluge dates from the Early Bronze Age (about 2600-2000 BC). During this period, the territory of present-day Oman was one of the most important producers of copper for ancient Mesopotamia in modern-day Iraq, as well as the Indus culture in what are now Pakistan and India. It was only here that copper ore occurred on a larger scale.Cast into copper ingots, it was a coveted commodity, as documented not least by cuneiform texts from Mesopotamia. Since copper ingots were usually further processed to make tools and other objects, they are only rarely unearthed in archaeological excavations. All the more surprising was the discovery of several such ingots in the Early Bronze Age settlement...
Archaeologists discover 4,300-year-old copper ingots in Oman (phys.org)
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| Magnified View of Countermark on Bronze Age Coin. Source: See Science in Poland link below. |
In the early 2nd century CE, soldiers from Legio X Fretensis, known for their bloody suppression of Jewish uprisings, were also stationed on the Black Sea, in the Roman fort Apsaros in Colchis, Polish researchers have found. Until now scientists did not know traces of their presence in such a remote area.
The discovery was possible thanks to the analysis of hundreds of bronze coins found during excavations. On some of them, archaeologist and numismatist Dr. Piotr Jaworski from the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw noticed additional stamps, referred to by experts as countermarks...
Here is that link.
Georgia/Polish scientists: Legio X Fretensis was stationed at Apsaros in Colchis | Science in Poland
This is a lengthy and better than average article that you might want to read.
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A few months ago I started what I intended to be a series of metal detector tests. Unfortunately I didn't get very far with that. I didn't find the time. Sorry about that. Maybe in the future.
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Windy.com has been proving as useful as the MagicSeaWeed charts that I previously used. The disadvantage of windy.com is that there is no single chart that sums up as so much pf the most needed information as quickly and clearly as the MSW charts.
You can find a lot of good helpful information on windy.com, but you have to look for it and select the right options. I'm still exploring and finding good useful things on that site. Windy.com also provides links to beach cams. I was exploring some of them yesterday.
I'll get more into how to use that site for predicting beach conditions in the future. It worked well the past few days. When I got to the beach, I saw pretty what I was expecting.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net