10/12/25 Report - A Look at a Number of Indian River County Beaches. Report on Finds from an Inland Metal Detecting Adventure.

 

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

Wabasso Sunday
Photos by DJ.

I received these photos and the report below from DJ today (Sunday).

Turtle Trail Today (Sunday)
Photos by DJ.

Ambersands Beach Today (Sunday).
Photos by DJ.

Below is DJ's report.

Took a look south of Ambersand beach access. As expected, sand and seaweed moving back onto the beach from east wind and high tide. But another good storm might help things.

There was very little lightweight scrap aluminum can slaw and a couple bottle caps. The 1/4 silver dime placed on the sand and swept about 8 10 inches high tested around 46. Interesting as I had to increase the gain to about 25 to get that depth. The depth meter showed about 7 shovels (approximately 21-28 inches displayed).

One reason I walked south of Ambersand was to get near the location of the Anchor wreck in an old treasure site map. The Anchor wreck was also mentioned by the Captain of the Mighty Mo, the boat that just found a “sack” of silver and a claim two more vags exist. Found in 6 foot and further

One guess why size and depth number is off could be the if expected coin size being detected is different than the size of a “coin” defined in the programming. Perhaps a smaller target fools the machine into calculating a 1/4 dime at the surface “looks like” a quarter (for example” buried deeper.

Seem to remember you had built a coin depth plastic pipe that worked nicely.

Photos: In a couple places there were tells as to loss of sand. One is a new stair that was painted down to the sand at time of construction. Now there is raw wood lower than the paint.

Another shows evidence of water driven into the edge of the dune top.

Turtle Trails and Wabasso pictures only

(I did want to check Wabasso south around the bend to see how far water made it into the old dune. Where you made a find several years ago.

Regards

Thanks much for the photos and report DJ.

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Relic Finds by Mark G.

Just got back from Connecticut metal detecting my father’s family’s old homestead. My aunt still lives there, I wrote her a letter last week asking her if I could have a look around the yard with my metal detector. My Aunt was OK with it and I think she wanted to find treasure as much as I did because she was out there to help me from the first day. But after several days of watching me swinging and pinging and digging up junk the weather got colder she would still check on me from time to time. First time off beach detecting using the park and field modes on the legend. Not going to lie there was a lot of trial and error or what I like to call test holes (junk). I studied for the trip by watching YouTube channels specifically one that was consistently digging old colonial sites deep in the green mountains of Vermont. No 250 year old coins like the one I found 50 years ago there but consistent with the period finds I saw on YouTube and some interesting finds none the less. I’ll list the finds in their dirty photo (Oct 7 Homestead) top to bottom plus a few interesting facts. The second photo (Oct 10 Homestead) is post soap and water wash.

 

1. 2 Spoons, Found the gravy ladle end of the ornate plated spoon, no markings, in a very productive area, found the rest of the handle in same area.

2. 2 Cap guns, 1950’s Hubley “Star” cap gun single shooter (we think it was my late uncles) and a tin gun missing grip which I am most certain I dropped playing in my grandmother’s apple trees.

3. Mystery item, possibly automotive related has male threads on back, midcentury?

4. Ornate tin cover, Appears to be aluminum

5. Airplane Insignia, Cast metal maybe hat, ribbon or pin, my dad was in the Airforce.

6. Ornate copper button, Very fragile has the loop on the back probably hit it with the shovel no markings, copper.

7. Mysterious 2 hole plate, I thought it might be a heel plate to the shoe buckle (which isn’t a shoe buckle) that I found in the same area, now I don’t know.

8. Something ornate, Same thought, it might be part of the shoe.

9. 4 to 5 inch long hair clip, This was mangled pretty bad when I dug it up, hand forged copper crudely made.

10. Rusty screwdriver

11. 1950’s Annual registration plate, commercial license plates used these replaceable yearly tags (now we use stickers)

12. Lead “Hem Weight” (I thought it was a button too) used to hold down hem of dress or curtains common no markings hard to date drop.

13. Thimble, Mangled but still identifiable.

14. British strap buckle, 1800’s possibly for British sword, This is what I thought was a shoe buckle but isn’t, has the words; ENGLAND on one side and SWORD and MAKER on the other.

15. Large ornamental face, brass??

16. Watch flywheel (was in 1 piece before I had to check my bag)

17. Rifle and shot gun shells

18. Lighter guts and a valve stem cover

19. 2 Nickels 1959 and 1962

20. 5 wheat pennies

21. 1 modern penny and 1 modern dime

Coins with Other Finds by Mark G.

Thanks Mark.

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Source: SurfGuru.com.

Looks like the surf will continue at a similar level for several more days.  The high tides will continue big too.

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In response to some recent questions and interest, I plan on putting together a post on coin movement.  

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net