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... After the first day, when archaeologists also joined the coin search, the number rose to 70.
It's unlikely we'll exceed 500, Smiseth thought.
But with each passing day, the coin discovery kept breaking more records.
This week, they passed 3,000 coins. That makes the find, referred to as the Mørstad Hoard after the farm where it was discovered, the largest Viking Age coin treasure ever discovered in Norway.
And the detectors are still beeping....
Here is the link for the rest of that story.
Have found Norway's largest Viking hoard with 3,000 silver coins: 'Truly exceptional'
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You might have found some nice old insulators. I have, and I've shown some of them before, but I just found a great Hemingray site. It has everything you might want to know about Hemingwray insulators.
Here is the link.
Hemingray.info - Hemingray Glass Insulator Database & More!
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Here is a cross recently discovered in renourishment sand at Jupiter. It needs a cleaning and further investigation. I advised the finder on how I'd proceed.
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Sometimes I use the term "metal detecting" and other times I use "treasure hunting." I doubt there is any precise difference you can find in a dictionary but I use the terms selectively. For me, metal detecting is using a metal detector to find metal targets, but I say treasure hunting for hunting other kinds of treasures like gems, fossils bottles or things like that, but only when the targets are fairly significant and I used treasure hunting to describe larger treasures that involve a lot of other activities such as heavy research, using a magnetometer, etc. So I use treasure hunting for bigger treasures such as shipwrecks or hoards that involve a lot more than swinging a metal detector at a beach or field. It isn't a precise definition, but those are the kins of things that tend to influence my choice of words.
Metal detecting can range from an occasional recreational activity to a primary professional activity or any place in between. I never tried to make a living by metal detecting but I did take a little time off just to see if I could. I found that I could, but I didn't want to. For one thing, my jobs usually allowed a good bit of time and supported my hobby activities in several ways. When I did university teaching, I had time to metal detect not only during weekends, but semester breaks etc., and when consulting I was usually able to work according to my own schedule and did a lot of business table that allowed me to metal detect different locations, so that was great.
It was my consulting that eventually got me in metal detecting after moving to South Florida when I was developing computer simulation pilot training programs for Eastern Airlines. The South Florida beaches were great for learning about metal detecting. The busy beaches offered many targets and a lot of high-value targets, including some nice older sites. Pattern identification is easier when you have more points and pattern identification is what you learn.
Like my move to South Florida that originally had nothing to do with metal detecting, it was a factor in getting me into metal detecting. It seems that an individual's life is determined to a large extent by a combination of chance, intention and effort. Sometimes it is difficult to separate and identify the different causes in the chain of events, but one thing I've noticed is that great effort almost always is required for great success. It doesn't matter the field. It can be music, sports, and it is certainly true with metal detecting. There is an element of luck: on rare occasion huge luck, but effort is a more consistent and usually much bigger factor.
There are individual variables. Personality and individual characteristics play a role in how you go about things and even the amount of effort you are willing to give.
You might recall my formula for metal detecting success. I developed it over the years and time on task is one of the biggest factors.
Here is a link to more discussion on that.
Treasure Beaches Report: Pt. 2. (2020 and Beyond). : Search results for metal detecting formula
Seek and you will find (Matthew 7:7)
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Feeding the conveyor belt.
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| Fort Pierce South Beach Friday Morning |
Calm surf and sandy beach.
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| Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com. |
Nothing special here.
This Saturday will be the Kentucky Derby. Brings back memories of when I was at the University of Louisville. I just finished my Master's degree and was walking back to campus from the Downs on one of those perfect blue-sky days when I heard somewhere, probably the student union, Ride Captian Ride, which froze that time in my memory for decades. At that time I had no idea where I was going on my life voyage.
As Copilot says...
Good hunting,
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