5/9/25 Report = Detectorist Finds Melsonby Hoard. Renourishment Program. 20th Century Railroad Item. Express Session Today.

 

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

In December 2021, a man named Peter Heads was using a metal detector in Melsonby. He knew he had found something when his device went off, and Durham University was quickly called.

The school’s researchers excavated the find in 2022 and have continued unearthing items throughout the years with the British Museum’s support and grants from organizations Decorative harnesses meant for 14 ponies, possibly more..

The Melsonby Hoard, as it’s called, consists of over 800 artifacts, each from 2,000 years ago.

Found near Melsonby, a village located in North Yorkshire, the collection is being hailed as one of the United Kingdom’s most critical Iron Age discoveries due to revelations presented by the hundreds of items. As it turns out, those living in the region thousands of years ago had both more wealth and advanced technology than we thought.

Other facts are coming to light about those who lived in Northern Europe during the Iron and Viking ages. For example, a translation inscribed on pieces of a 1,100-year-old cache is solving big mysteries about how the Scottish viewed wealth. Who knows what historians will find next in the British Isles?...

Here is a link for more about that hoard.

Iron Age Perception Completely Shifts Over Discovery Of 800 "Luxury" Items

And also...

Melsonby Hoard: Iron Age 'bling' shows wealth of northern tribes

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The project is necessary for the Sebastian Inlet District to meet its requirement to return sand to the beach that migrates into the inlet per the Florida Beach & Shore Preservation Act. The sand from the inlet was pumped about 3 miles along the inlet through a large black tube and onto the beach. From there, dump trucks and front-end loaders with ATL Diversified Inc. have been working like a colony of ants spreading the sand across the beach.

The sand project has to be completed by May 12 so it won't interfere with sea turtle nesting, Gray said. The peak nesting activity in Florida often happens between May and July. Sea turtles are an endangered species, and people are prohibited from harming them or their nests.

Here is the link for more about that.

$11 million Sebastian Inlet State Park project to wrap up as sea turtle nesting starts

This project was supposed to be over by turtle nesting season.

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One of the lots for sale in the current Sedwick auction is the 1914 Canadian Railway sugar bowl shown below.

Here is the lot description.

Silver-plated sugar bowl, stamped with Canadian Pacific Railway logo on side and Mappin & Webb's Prince's Plate (London) logo on bottom, ex-Empress of Ireland (1914), ex-Malone. 185 grams. 5" in diameter x 2" tall. The Empress of Ireland was a Royal Mail ship that operated in conjunction with the Canadian Pacific Railway in the St. Lawrence River, where she was rammed in heavy fog by another ship and sunk in May of 1914, to the demise of over 1000 people, in fact Canada's worst maritime disaster and sometimes referred to as "Canada's Titanic." This petal-shaped bowl, intact with most of its silver plating minus some oxidation around the rim, contains clear stamps of the Canadian Pacific Railway logo on the side and the manufacturer's information on the bottom. From the Empress of Ireland (1914) with period postcard showing the ship and letter from salvor Bart P. Malone.

That is a more modern item than most of the treasure coins in the auction, and another example of the variety of kinds of things in the auction.

Friday, May 9 the Express Session will be held, beginning at 10 AM EDT.  The lots go quickly. You might want to watch it.

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Sebastian Inlet Beach Cam This Morning

Fort Pierce Inlet Surf Forecast from Surfguru.com.

Looks like we have settled well into summer beach conditions and nothing will disrupt that other than a storm or some sort.

Good hunting,

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