10/20/23 Report - Detectorist Finds Hoard. Silver Ring From 18th Century Wreck. Higher Surf Expected in a Few Days.

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

A metal detectorist in Switzerland has unearthed a bounty of Bronze Age jewelry alongside fossilized animal remains in a farmer's freshly plowed carrot field.

Franz Zahn made the discovery in August while clearing scrap metal for the unnamed farmer in the northeastern town of Güttingen, according to a translated statement.

The finds included a necklace made up of 14 spiked bronze discs, two spiral finger rings and more than 100 tiny amber beads roughly the size of pinheads, which Zahn carefully plucked from the soil using tweezers. Other items strewn about the field, likely due to plowing, included a bronze arrowhead, lumps of polished ore, an ammonite (a type of extinct marine mollusk), a shark's tooth, a perforated bear's tooth and a rock crystal.

After finding the artifacts, Zahn contacted the local Office of Archaeology to survey the field's contents more extensively. Archaeologists determined that the jewelry items were "typical costume jewelry" that would've been worn by women in around 1500 B.C. during the Bronze Age...

Here is the link for more about that.

Stash of 'eye-catching' Bronze Age jewelry discovered by metal detectorist in Swiss carrot field | Live Science

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Among the lots being offered in the current Sedwick treasure auction, no. 34, is this silver ring bearing a Greek key pattern that I would not recognize as being from such an early shipwreck (1707).

The wreck itself is an interesting one, being a British man-of-war, sunk in 1707.

The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly in severe weather on 22 October 1707. Between 1,400 and 2,000 sailors lost their lives aboard the wrecked vessels, making the incident one of the worst maritime disasters in British naval history. The disaster has been attributed to a combination of factors, including the navigators' inability to accurately calculate their positions' errors in the available charts and pilot books, and inadequate compasses.

Below is the link to the Wikipedia article that describes the Scilly sinkings, legends and salvage.

Scilly naval disaster of 1707 - Wikipedia

Good read.

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Surf Chart for Fort Pierce Inlet Area.
Source: surfguru.com

Looks like we'll have a rougher surf towards the end of the week.   The direction doesn't look good though, and the high tides have been decreasing lately, though still pretty high.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net