9/20/24 Report - Bronze Urn and Other Objects Unearthed. Attempt to Divert Gold Miners Foiled. Higher Tides and Surf.

 

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

When was gold mining banned?  As the Great Falls Leader article (shown above) says, gold mining was banned in October 1942.  They wanted gold miners to mine other metals like copper, lead, and zinc that were more important to the war effort.  Of 12,000 gold miners, only 400 shifted to mining strategic metals.  They article says, "The gold miner is a peculiar person.  Mostly he will mine gold but he won't mine anything else."  Of course, there was more to it than that.  For one thing, many of the gold mines lived near their mines and would be required to move.  

You can find millions of newspaper pages in the newspaper archives of Ancestry.com if you have a membership or even a free trial membership.

See Newspapers.com™ Collections FAQ (ancestry.com)

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Archaeologists have made an extremely rare discovery during excavations of an ancient cemetery in Poland.

Recent investigations... unearthed the remains of 160 objects from the Neolithic period and early Bronze Age, as well as the ancient cemetery, which dates to the late pre-Roman and early Roman period, so roughly the 1st century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D.

Over three excavation seasons, archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology at the Jagiellonian University and the archaeological company Pryncypat, identified 23 inhumation burials—where bodies were placed in the ground—and four cremation burials at the cemetery.

One of the cremation burials, discovered in mid-August this year, was particularly intriguing, with archaeologists finding that the burnt human remains had been placed in a bronze vessel of Roman origin...

Here is the link for more about that.

Archaeologists Find Extremely Rare Roman Artifact at Ancient Burial Ground - Newsweek

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Below you'll find Mark G.'s response to my recent post.

I’ve wanted to weigh in on some of the topics of conversation the past few weeks on why we metal detect, the fork in the road, why we look for coins on the ground, and now the interactions on the beach. I find kids are the most curious and they will run up and ask what your looking for then stand right in front of you keeping you from swinging the coil so you have to answer. The adults however they are more direct and will ask the question, my response to that question has evolved to quickly deflect with another question, so now I just fire back; “what’s the best thing you ever lost?”. This believes it or not has resulted in people actually telling me what they lost where and when.

  

Funny story; I took my 5 year old to the beach one time with my old borrowed “Bounty Hunter”. I would throw a quarter out in front of him he would find it and give it to me to hold then I would throw it back out when he wasn’t looking. That worked well for a while until he turned to me and said “boy Pop we must have a lot of money now”.

That reminds me of the time my wife had a hole in her goodie bag and kept detecting the same coin over and over - or was that me.  I forget now.

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A once-in-1,000-year rainfall event from an unnamed storm floods homes and forces rescues in North Carolina...

Here is the link for more about that.

Tropical storm-like system floods North Carolina with historic rain | CNN

Just to remind you once again, rain erosion can uncover things too.

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Source: SurfGuru.com.

Friday will be another day of really unusually high tides.

Looks like well get some higher surf in a few days too.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net