Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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Some Recent Finds.
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This is the first I got around to taking a good look at my recent metal detecting finds. I knew I didn't have anything great. I was a little surprised by what I found out. Of the three items shown above I was wrong about two.
First, I thought the ring at the top looked like it was probably silver, but it isn't.
The big earring in the middle, I thought was probably junk, but it turned out to be silver.
It must have been a recent drop. It doesn't show any tarnish or corrosion. That fooled me a little.
I thought the junk ring at the top of the photo looked like old silver, but it is, at best. plated.
The finger ring is missing most of the stones. It originally had a heart-shaped center stone and three small diamond looking stones to each side. Only three are there now, and they are small. It turned out to be 10K gold - 1.3 grams, which at current gold prices isn't bad.
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| 10K Mark on Found Ring. |
Gold went over $4000/oz. today. At that price, even small amounts of gold are worthwhile.
The time I spent hunting was where renourishment sand had eroded, so I didn't expect to find any really old items. I should have spent more time and walked to some of the areas that had a better chance of producing old stuff, but I didn't.
Of course, I also found the normal clad and miscellaneous junk.
Even there was a lot of good surf and sand movement, the angles weren't great and there was still a lot of renourishment sand on the Treasure Coast to overcome. We are just getting started though.
The surf is getting smaller.
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| Surf Chart for the Fort Pierce Jetty Area from SurfGuru.com. |
With the next tropical storm, Jerry, already out there, I have a lot of hope for this Fall beach season.
I'm looking to get out again soon. I'm hoping for a good chance to get down in the low tide area at some of the areas where there has been recent erosion.
The high tides are unusually high these, and we are also having some decent low tides. Last night's low was slightly negative.
Here is the most recent NHC map showing the projected path for Tropical Storm Jerry.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
As you can see, Jerry appears to be headed north and staying out in the Atlantic.
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| Source: Windy.com. |
The above mode from Windy.com shows circulation north of Florida sending north winds and surf our way. It looks similar Friday. That is the ECMWF model.
If you check the SurfGuru.com surf chart above, you'll see the north winds Friday and Saturday along with a little bump in the surf, but the surf looks like it will still be from the east.
For me, this is much better metal detecting weather and conditions than the long hot summer we just came through.
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What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal Science Advances, researchers demonstrate that these enormous animals were a staple food source for people in southern South America around 13,000 to 11,600 years ago. Their findings may also rewrite our understanding of how these massive creatures became extinct...
Here is the link to that article.
Early humans dined on giant sloths and other Ice Age giants, archaeologists find
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I recently added a Royal Crown soda bottle and Fehrs beer bottle to the TGBottlebarn.blogspot.com site.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
