Treasure Beaches Report: Pt. 2. (2020 and Beyond). : 9/25/23 Report - Gold Treasure Found. Treasure Coast Beach. Reading and Sampling.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Source: See ScienceNorway link below.

Another gold treasure in Norway: 1400 year old gold foil figures found in pagan temple.

A total of 35 gold pieces have now been found by the roadside near the Hov farm in Vingrom. "It doesn't get much more spectacular than this," says archaeologist...

“But more of these small pieces of gold keep appearing. Either through excavation or with metal detectors. So, more could pop up in various places in Norway as well,” she says.

Due to the continuous new finds, the number of gold foil figures must be regularly updated. The latest numbers Røstad has from 2019 indicate that a total of 3,243 gold foil figures have been found in Scandinavia – 2,708 of them on Bornholm.

Here is the link to the much longer article.

Another gold treasure in Norway: 1400 year old gold foil figures found in pagan temple (sciencenorway.no)

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Here is a link to another Norwegian gold artifact find that I previously posted some time ago.

1500-year-old gold treasure discovered by metal detectorist: “This is the gold find of the century in Norway” (sciencenorway.no)

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Beach North of Fort Pierce Inlet.
Photo by DJ.

I received the above photo and following message from DJ.

Nice overcast day so walked north of ft pierce inlet. Saw what i thought was a bowl of sorts in the distance looking south to the inlet. You can see it at the top of the photo. This beach, being north of the inlet tends to collect sand. There are surfers that visit near the north jetty.

As expected lots of medium shells thrown up, there was just a few modern coins and a single pop top. Seems no one with stuff to lose visits this stretch of beach to Pepper Park. I imagine there are isolated finds.

But it has been awhile and it just felt good to get out and detect.

Thanks for the report DJ.

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I was watching Gold Rush: Mine Rescue recently, and in one episode the miners were finding very little gold - almost none. A four-hour test run produced only 0.03 ounces. They miners evidently didn't know they were running tailings already worked by the old timers. Freddy and Juan, who came in to help the failing miners, took a look and could immediately tell that the miners were working tailings. The miners didn't know that and had wasted a lot of time and money.

I'm often amazed how people will spend a lot of time and money starting an expensive operation without knowing what they are doing. I'd never put so much money into heavy equipment and land and then run an operation involving a team trying to accumulate enough fine gold just to pay for expenses. I'm not saying they are wrong to do it. As the program shows, it sometimes works out, but that kind of mining does not appeal to me at all. Besides just not looking like fun, I'm way too conservative (not talking about in a political sense) to spend a lot of money out front hoping to make it back, without being pretty confident that I could do it. It seems that a lot of treasure hunters must think it is easy and are willing to take the risk even without a lot of knowledge or experience. It seems it must occasionally work, but I'm not one to take a big gamble without feeling real good about the risk/reward probabilities. Nothing wrong with making a bet, even a long shot one, but for me, I'd prefer to have a very good idea of what the odds really are before making a bet that I can't afford to lose.

Your personality will determine to a certain extent, what kind of treasure hunting will be right for you. So also, will your personal circumstances.

Freddy and Juan took one look and the material the miners were working, and they could quickly see that the material had already been worked by the old timers. They had the experience and knowledge and could take one look and see what the miners did not see. That is very much like reading a beach.

Then they wanted to check out the material under that where maybe the old times didn't get. So what did they do? They took a sample to test that material. Sampling is a good idea for beach metal detecting too, and there are many ways to do it.

One of the things about sampling is the importance to get a good representative sample of the part of the beach you are considering. Not all parts of the beach will be of equal interest, so you might eliminate parts of the beach and narrow down the area or areas you want to sample. If the sample provides evidence the area might be worth detecting more thoroughly, then you hunt that area more intensely. If not, you might want to move on.

Sometimes sampling can be as simple as running a loose search pattern or passing through an area you might be interested in detecting. That isn't a systematic or thorough sampling, but you can gather information that way.

I could get into both sampling and search patterns but I've done a lot of that before. You can search treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com for some of those old posts.

See for example,

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 6/26/20 Report - Incorrectly Marked Gold. If You Dont' Know Where You Want To Detect Do Some Sampling.

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 4/6/14 Report - Beach Gold Find, Florida Missions, Beach Sampling and Old Fort Pierce Inlet

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 12/20/17 Report - Hoard of Silver and Gold Coins Found. Basic Stages of a Systematic Hunt. Recognizing Various Types of Treasure.

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