11/2/24 Report - Gold Votive Plaque. Excavated Dagger. Long Handle Duct Taped Detector. More High Tides.

 

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Gold Votive Plaque Excavated at Roman Fort.

Archaeologists have uncovered a "unique" gold artifact dedicated to an ancient deity at the site of a Roman fort, hinting at the existence of a lost temple.

The votive plaque is among the "most important" discoveries revealed by excavations conducted this year at the Roman fort of Apsaros in Georgia—a country that straddles the boundary between Eastern Europe and West Asia in the Caucasus region—Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski...

The votive plaque found during the 2024 excavation season at the site, which ran from mid-May to the end of July, is essentially a thin gold plate. It features a Greek inscription dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus—a deity worshipped in the Roman Empire who was particularly revered by soldiers. The deity combined aspects of the Roman god Jupiter with an ancient Near Eastern storm and fertility deity worshipped at Doliche in what is now southeastern Turkey.

Here is the link for more about that.

Unique' Gold Artifact Discovered at Roman Fort Hints at Lost Temple - Newsweek

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Excavated Copper Age Dagger..

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare dagger dating back to the Copper Age at Tina Jama Cave in the regional decentralization entity of Trieste in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia...

“Such finds do not have exact parallels in Italy, but the Tina Jama dagger can be compared with similar finds from the famous Dežman/Deschmann pile dwellings near Ljubljana in Slovenia,” Professor Bernardini said.

“Excavations at Tina Jama uncovered layers from the Bronze and Final Copper Age, dating back to the second half of the 3rd millennium BCE,” added Dr. Elena Leghissa, an archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and the Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti.

Here is the link for more about that.

Archaeologists Find 4,000-Year-Old Copper Dagger in Italy | Sci.News

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I took a trip and wanted to have a metal detector along, but just wanted to stick the detector in my gym bag so I just took the coil, two lower rods, and control box.  I didn't take the upper rod with arm rest.  It was too bulky.  So when I got where I was going, I added a wood extension and used duct tape to attach the control box to the extension.  The extension was just a piece of corner molding.

It worked well enough.  The longer handle was easy to swing and use.  It fit under my arm and was actually easier to swing and handle than the stock rod with the arm rest.   And additionally, it allowed me to reach farther, which was handy in some situations, for example reaching under bushes or up a steep bank.  Overall, I was pleased and was able to make finds.

This shows the duct taped control box.

Duct Taped Control Box.

Just a Garrett Ace that did the job.  I didn't want to take a top-level detector. Just something that worked under the circumstances.

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Source: SurfGuru.com.

Still a decent, but not big, surf.  The high tides are still very high though.

Good hunting,

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