9/21/23 Report -Two Swords Found by Detectorists. Counterfeiting and Fake Hoard Coins.

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

Two Swords Discovered by Detectorist.
Source: See link below.

Gleen Manning, while attending a metal detectorist rally in the north of Cotswolds discovered a rare and important treasure.  Two Roman cavalry swords along with remnants of their wooden scabbards and fitments were found.  Also found was a broken copper alloy bowl.

Here is the link for more about that.

Ancient Roman Swords Unearthed in the Cotswolds “A Remarkable Archaeological Find”

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Tourists traveling through such countries as Egypt occasionally by chance arrive at the right time to find local people excavating what appears to be a site of treasure. While these tourists watch the excavators may discover some coins, which they immediately offer to the tourists rather than turn the find over to proper authorities. The tourists oblige them, only much later finding what they purchased were counterfeit coins.

What happened in this instance is that the so-called tomb looters were at the dig site ruins the night before. They salted the site with their counterfeit coins, knowing their neighborly tour guide would bring tourists to the site the following day.

The lesson to be learned from any involvement with a coin hoard discovery is to be cautious about such finds regardless of how good they may appear to be or how realistic the story about the find may sound. In June, police arrested two individuals in the area in Eachalampattai, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka who were found to be carrying what turned out to be a hoard of fake gold coins.

The pair claimed the counterfeits were sourced from a buried treasure and that the coins had been purchased for 400,000 rupees (about $1,250 U.S.). Suspects who were selling the fake gold coins had contacted the two individuals through Facebook and arranged for them to arrive at Hatares Kotuwa to purchase the fakes, which they had claimed were retrieved from an alleged buried treasure dig site...


In late July it was announced by police in Cornwall, Wales, that while a hoard had been properly turned over to authorities as is required under British law, someone had altered the contents of that find, the find being dubbed the Lanivet Hoard.

The find of 56 ancient Roman coins was discovered between October 2017 and January 2020 by the treasure hunting group Mid Cornwall History Hunters. Normally under the Treasure Act of 1996 the hoard would have been classified as treasure. In this case, however, the find is considered to be the property of the Duchy of Cornwall. The duchy had disclaimed the hoard, which was then acquired by the Royal Institution of Cornwall.

The Lanivet Hoard find was reported to Anna Tyacke of the RIC as required by law. On July 17 an inquest was held at a court in Truro, Cornwall where it was learned three of the coins from the find were missing but had not been reported as possible treasure. In a strange twist the three coins were substituted for similar Roman silver coins of the same period.

According to Tyacke, “The substitute coins looked similar to those found but are actually in a better condition and are more valuable than those they were swapped in for. The substitution does not make sense.”...

The switch was discovered when photographs taken of the hoard at the time of its discovery failed to match pictures of the same coins sent to the British Museum for historical analysis.

The lesson to be learned? No matter if the coins were allegedly discovered while you watch, sold clandestinely to you with a great story that can’t be proved, or if the coins have been switched out from a hoard, don’t get involved.

Here is the link where you will find more.

Privately Sold Hoard Coins a Problem - Numismatic News  

As I've been saying, this is time of fakes, counterfeits, lies, delusion and illusion.

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While circulating coins are not the object of most counterfeiting, coins counterfeited for circulation are not unknown. 

 ... On Dec. 8 it was announced four suspects were arrested a day earlier. The individuals have been accused of counterfeiting Israeli 5- and 10-shekel coins...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Payments and Currency Investigation Group reported seven enforcement operations during the first nine months of 2021 that resulted in more than 500 counterfeit bank notes with a face value in excess of P480,000 being seized. Of the 16 suspects arrested, 14 were identified as being members of organized crime. What is disturbing is that the BSP also seized more than 200 counterfeit foreign notes in the same raids. The countries represented by the fakes were not identified in police reports.

In 2017 the United Kingdom released a new 12-sided £1 coin due to rampant counterfeiting of its predecessor, which had been nicknamed the “round pound.” At that time the Royal Mint estimated about 2.5 percent of all £1 coin in circulation were fakes.

Japan released an improved version of its 500-yen coin for the first time in 21 years in 2021 in an effort to keep ahead of counterfeiters. The rollout was postponed while machines that accept coins were being re-calibrated to accept the new as well as existing versions of the denomination.

Here is the link for more of that article.

Coin Counterfeiting Making Headlines - Numismatic News

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov.

A non-tropical low pressure system is expected to form within a 
large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms to the east 
of the Florida peninsula within the next day or two.  This system 
could acquire some subtropical characteristics on Friday while it 
moves generally northward.  Regardless of development, this low is 
likely to bring gusty winds to gale force, heavy rain, and high surf 
to portions of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic United States late 
this week and into this weekend.  Additional information on this 
system can be found in High Seas Forecasts and products from your 
local National Weather Service office.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent.

And from Surfguru.com we get this surf chart for the Fort Pierce Inlet area.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

9/20/23 Report - A Look At a Few Treasure Coast Beaches This Morning. A Ring Find.

 

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

John Brooks Beach Wednesday Morning.

Yesterday we had some northeast winds and last night there was a lot of thunder and rain.  This morning it was still cloudy until about 9 AM. 

I went out to check some beaches this morning (Wednesday),

First, I took a look at John Brooks and there were no cuts there.

Turtle Nest Marker at John Brooks Beach Wednesday Morning.

The last couple of times I was at John Brooks beach, I pointed out the turtle nest marker shown in the photo above.  The marker is now nearly buried, which shows the amount of sand accumulating at that point.  In the last two or three weeks, it looks like at least a foot of sand has accumulated at that spot.

John Brooks Beach Wednesday Morning.

Above you can see the convex mushy beach and some seaweed.

Frederick Douglass Beach Wednesday Morning.

Next, I took a look at Frederick Douglass beach.  As is usually the case, it looked very much like John Brooks.

The slope of the beach looked pretty steep this morning but was very mushy.  You can see that some seaweed is at the top of the slope there too.

Frederick Douglass Beach Wednesday Morning.

On to Fort Pierce South Jetty.

Fort Pierce South Jetty Park Wednesday Morning.

There was a long cut there - up to about five feet at the most.

Fort Pierce South Jetty Inlet Beach Wednesday Morning.

As I've often said, even when many beaches are not eroded, you can usually find areas where there are rocks or other obstructions to the flow of sand where you can find erosion.

Despite the cuts here, the slope below the cut was very mushy.

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I had time to get in a little detecting and picked up the usual small sample of coins and sinkers, and the following ring.

Ring Find.

I don't know what kind of stone that is.  It also has what appears to be a couple of very small diamond chips in the little triangles on each side of the red stone, which appears more orange in the photo.

It is marked 14 K S.  That isn't a real common marking.  The mark  indicates 14 karat gold over sterling silver.

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Good hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/19/23 Report - From Gold Celtic Torcs to Copper African Manillas: Hoards and Shipwreck Finds.

 

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

Source: See CNN link below.

Two gold necklaces dating from around 2,500 years ago have been found by chance in northwestern Spain by a worker for a local water company.

Sergio Marciandi was working in Cavandi, Asturias, on August 29 when he spotted a gold necklace among some rocks...

Arias traveled to the scene along with experts from the Asturias Archaeological Museum and carried out an initial investigation, which uncovered a second necklace that had been broken into several pieces, he said.

“It’s really impressive,” said Arias, who added that the find could boost our understanding of the Iron Age, the period in which they were made.

While other gold necklaces from the Iron Age have been found, most were discovered in the 18th and 19th centuries, when limited archaeological techniques meant much of the information about their provenance was lost, Arias explained.

In this case, the site is intact, giving archaeologists a much better idea of their context, he added...

As things stand, the necklaces show signs of wear on areas that would have been in contact with the wearer’s skin and clothes...

Here is the link for more about that.

Spanish water worker finds ancient gold necklaces on hillside | CNN

So what is a torc (also spelled torq or torque)?

A Torc is a rigid neck or wrist ornament popular throughout Europe for a huge span of time dating back to the Bronze age. Derived from the Latin word ‘torquis’, meaning ‘to twist,’ the earliest torcs were crafted from twisted pieces of metal to form a rigid piece of jewelry with a small opening at one side. A few designs had hook and ring closures or interlocking catches to close them, but the torc style as it is known today typically has no clasp or catch.

The torc style of jewelry was popular among many groups of ancient peoples including the Norse and Vikings. But it was the Celts that seemed to be particularly enamoured with them, and they set the bar with some spectacularly decorative pieces, known to many as "Celtic Torcs," that survive and impress to this day...

A Viking silver horde containing numerous arm rings in a torc style found near Clew Bay in Co. Mayo in 1939...

Then there was also the Mooghaun hoard.

Discovered in marshy ground near Mooghaun lake in Co. Clare in 1854 by workers building a railway, this spectacular find weighed over 11lbs!  A treasure trove that would impress even the most experienced hunter. With over 150 golden ornaments including solid gold torcs for arms and necks and hammered golden collars, it remains one of the most spectacular finds on this island despite many of the objects being lost and melted down...

But not all broken Torcs were repaired or indeed passed down. Some seem to have been deliberately bent or broken and buried with their owners as grave goods. Torcs were such revered items that at least a few pieces also seem to have been made as offerings to Celtic Gods. The Broighter Collar along with the rest of the Broighter Horde was found in Derry beside the coast. Given the location of the find and the pieces in the horde, many have speculated that it represents an offering to a Celtic God of the Sea, Manannán mac Lir...

Here is the link for more about torcs.

The History of The Celtic Torc (myirishjeweler.com)

There are also torque-like objects called manilla used as money in Africa and often associated with the slave trade.  It is thought that in the early days indigenous Africans fashioned torques from spikes recovered from shipwrecks.

Source: face2faceAfrica. com (link below)

Manilla, copper bracelets and leg-bands, became the form of money that was used in West Africa, becoming the accepted form of exchange used predominantly during slavery among the Portuguese and later the British and French who came to Africa to trade...

Here is the link for much more about that.

Manilla: the money used during the slave trade in West Africa (face2faceafrica.com)

I posted the following in a previous post.

Odyssey Marine explored a shipwreck found at the Western Approaches to the English channel. the wreck, dated to circa 1660 - 1680, appears to be a merchant vessel of the Royal Africa Company. 36 iron cannon, a quantity of elephant tusks and copper bracelets were among the artifacts discovered on the site.

Manillas or Bochie

Bracelets Used As Money in West Africa Up To The 1940s.

Source: Odyssey Marine, Paper 23.

 West African exchange demanded enormous quantities of this form of currency. As early as 1504-07, just one trading station along the Guinea coast imported 287,813 manillas from Portugal (Davies, 2002: 47). In modern terms of monetary exchange they yielded high dividends. In 1505 a Portuguese merchant reported that at Calabar a large elephant tooth could be exchanged for one manilla and a slave purchased for eight to ten copper manillas (Einzig, 1949: 150-1; Johansson, 1967: 12)…

The Odyssey paper provides a detailed study of the wreck, including much damage by fishing trawlers and provides many pictures of the site and artifacts found on the site.

Here is the llink to the original Odyssey Marine study.

https://www.academia.edu/3597456/Neil_Cunningham_Dobson_and_Sean_A._Kingsley_A_Late_17th-Century_Armed_Merchant_Vessel_in_the_Western_Approaches_Site_35F_?email_work_card=title

I've found modern bracelets in the torq style, as well as at least a couple 1715 Fleet examples.  They were more of the torq rather than stocky manilla form.  

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Nigel is the only thing in the Atlantic on the National Hurricane Center map now.  Looks kind of lonely out there after all the activity we've had lately.

Here is the cone for Nigel.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov.

And here is the surf chart for the Fort Pierce Inlet Area.

Surf Chart for the Fort Pierce Inlet Area.
Source: Surfguru.com.

The Vero area chart shows a little higher surf for Wednesday, but only a foot or so.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

9/18/23 Report - Badger Digs Up Gold Coins. Spanish Colonial Fashion. Storms Lee and Nigel.

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

Source: See CBS News link below.

A treasure trove of some 200 Roman-era coins was discovered in northwestern Spain thanks to the apparent efforts of a hungry badger hunting for food, archaeologists have said....

The coins were likely dug up by a badger searching for food during the rare snowstornm which paralyzed Spain in January 2021 — a blizzard officials called "the most intense storm in the last 50 years."...

Here is the link for more a about that.

Badger hunting for food instead unearths treasure trove of Roman-era coins in Spain, archaeologists say - CBS News

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Spain’s American colonies were established in the decades after Christopher Columbus’s inadvertent arrival in the Caribbean in 1492 and endured into the 19th century. From Mexico City to Lima, colonists and locals alike paid close attention to what they and everyone else wore. ‘The lowest class of Spaniards are very ambitious of distinguishing themselves from [people of mixed race], either by the colour or fashion of the clothes,’ observed two Spanish travellers in the 18th century, who went on to detail the ways in which clothing helped differentiate between ‘Spaniards’ and those they called mestizos. Many other observers echoed their comments about the importance of dress in marking out the hierarchies that shaped colonial society.

By their very nature, colonial projects require the construction of sharp distinctions between the governed and the governing. In Spanish America, these distinctions were framed within the language of race, or caste (scholars argue over what term best captures the features of these early modern societies). The territories governed by Spain were home not only to millions of Indigenous people and a much smaller number of Europeans, but also millions of Africans taken against their will to labour in the sugar plantations, mines and other enterprises that for centuries made its American empire a source of profit to the Spanish state. They and their descendants were joined by smaller numbers of merchants, traders and other folk from Asia, Europe and Africa, creating complex and multiethnic societies...

Spanish American sumptuary laws however were not confined to matters of wealth. Such legislation also stipulated which castes were allowed to wear what. Restrictions on the clothing permitted to specific castes were issued from the 16th century, when people of colour in Lima were for instance banned from wearing silk, jewels and other adornments, and endured to the end of the colonial era. Laws barring non-whites from carrying swords or similar accoutrements were issued repeatedly from the 1530s to the end of the 17th century. Legislation regulating the dress of non-Spanish women was also common. Black and ‘mulatta’ women in 17th-century Mexico were for example prohibited from wearing ‘any gold, silver, or pearl jewellery, nor any Castilian garments, nor silk shawls, nor gold or silver passementerie’...

Here is that link.

Why Spanish colonial officials feared the power of clothing | Psyche Ideas

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Lee pummels Maine and Canada.

Thousands without power and 1 dead after Atlantic storm Lee pummels New England and Maritime Canada | AP News

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Cone for Nigel.
Source: nhc.noaa.gov

It looks like Nigel will stay farther out and do us no more good than Lee.

Surf Chart for the Fort Pierce Inlet Area.
Source: Surfguru.com.

It also looks like Thursday/Friday will bring us some higher surf, but nothing real big.  Again the direction is not great.  

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"Half of the schools in the district are below average."  That is a statement that Neil DeGrasse Tyson used to illustrate math ignorance.  He went on to say something like, "Duh, that is what average is."

But the average does not tell you the shape of the distribution, or how many of a sample is above or below the average.  The median is the point between the top and bottom half, not the average.  To his credit, as an afterthought he did make a vague reference to the term "median," but I'd think if you are going to make fun of "math stupidity" you'd be a little more precise yourself.   The overall video was  somewhat entertaining despite that.  Link: DeGrasse Tyson on How Did America Become Stupid - YouTube

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Good hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/17/23 Report - Pontius Pilate Ring Questioned. More Details of Coin Lines and Multiple Data Point. Tropical Storm Nigel.

 

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

Is this Pontius Pilate’s ring? First published in 2018, the small copper ring quickly made international headlines with its captivating one-word Greek inscription: ΠΙΛΑΤΟ (Pilato)—the name of Pontius Pilate.  While much of the initial news coverage indicated the ring may have belonged to Pilate himself, most scholars were far more cautious, suggesting that it more likely belonged to someone in Pilate’s administration. However, a new study published in the journal ‘Atiqot argues that the ring has no connection to Pontius Pilate at all...

Here is the link for more about that.

Pontius Pilate’s Ring Reexamined - Biblical Archaeology Society

“What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.  John 18:38.

As is usually the case, when we find an item, we try to identify it.  We attempt to fit it into what we know or think we know.  The previously lost item now must be fit into our world.  It might fit easily and comfortably or oddly and awkwardly.  If it is the latter, it raises new questions, forcing us to grapple with its identify and meaning, and prodding us to rework some level of our understanding as we try to make it fit. 

Items that are quickly identified and summarily slide into our world view do not force us to adjust and learn as much as those that do not fit our immediate understanding or eventually give rise to new questions.

The temptation is to see what we hoped to see.  We tend to fit more or less ambiguous finds into our hopes and preconceptions.  Our hopes and desires influence our perceptions and interpretations.

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When I write about an item like this, it might seem to some that it has nothing to do with metal detecting the Treasure Coast, and it is true that you will probably never find a Pontius Pilate ring on the Treasure Coast, but the more general principles are the same.  We attempt to interpret finds very much like the Israeli archaeologists, and we can make the same types of mistakes.  We can also learn from their experiences and mistakes.

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I was fortunate to begin metal detecting in a place where targets were plentiful.  Even if there weren't a lot of old shipwreck finds, there were a lot of coins and jewelry.  I believe that the relatively large number of targets accelerated my learning curve.  It is more difficult to identify patterns when there are few data points.  

Target distribution patterns are not complex. A coin line, for example, can be long or short, wide or narrow, and vary in depth, although they are most often near the surface.  For the most part con lines are three dimensional, but they can also vary in density.  The targets can be packed tightly or spread out over a larger area.  Of course, a coin line can vary in other ways - for example, the age of the finds.  There can also be double lines.  I won't get into the details of those now. 

Coin lines can also be top heavy or bottom heavy.  Top heavy lines are formed when items wash out of the dunes.  In that case, items like gold and larger coins will more often be found higher on the slope.  Items that are moved more easily will be washed farther down the slope.  

Bottom heavy lines are formed when items are washed up onto the beach, and the more easily moved items such as zinc pennies are found higher on the slope and farther from the water line while the gold and larger coins will be nearer or in the water.  

If items are washed far enough down the slope and into the water, they can be folded back up onto the lower beach.

Many finds make it easier to identify all those characteristics.  You can't tell all of that from just a few coins.

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Easing off the weather a bit today, I'll just give a little of that.  We've had a lot of activity in the Atlantic lately, but not with not a lot of erosion on our beaches.

Source: SurfGuru.com.

Here is the latest surf chart from SurfGuru.  Looks like we'll have some higher surf this coming Friday.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov.

We now have Tropical Storm Nigel.  Nigel will probably stay out in the Atlantic very much like Lee.

It doesn't look like it, but hopefully Nigel will do more for us than Lee.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov.

Yesterday I took a look at the number of blog views and there were over seven thousand for the day when I looked.  I can only assume that the blog is drawing readers way outside the Treasure Coast, and I've seen that before.  I'll often get emails from around the U.S. as well as overseas.  Perhaps I should more often mention areas like the Outer Banks.  Lee produced some pretty high waves up the northeast coast, even to Maine and beyond.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

  

“What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again

9/16/23 Report - Treasure Coast Beaches and Surf. Oldest Shipboard Cannon In Europe Found. Future Beach Outlook.

 

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

Source: See gu.se link below.

Shipboard cannon found off the Swedish coast may be the oldest in Europe

An international research team led by maritime archaeologist Staffan von Arbin of the University of Gothenburg has studied what might be Europe’s oldest shipboard cannon. The cannon was found in the sea off Marstrand on the Swedish west coast and dates back to the 14th century.

The findings from the interdisciplinary study contribute new knowledge about the early development of artillery on land and at sea, but also bears witness to a troubled period for seafarers as well as coastal populations...

Link for more about that: Shipboard cannon found off the Swedish coast may be the oldest in Europe | University of Gothenburg (gu.se) 

You might want to check out this link The Project Gutenberg eBook of Artillery through the Ages - A. Manucy.  You will also find it on the tbe2020 reference link list.

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Wabasso Friday Morning.
Photo by DJ.

DJ went out to Wabasso Friday and said he saw pretty much the same kind of beach conditions I saw on Thursday on South Hutchinson Island.

Wabasso Friday Morning.
Photo by DJ.

Thanks to DJ for sharing.

Here is the overall Atlantic picture.

Lee has moved north but fifteen is now coming our way, but it looks like it will pretty much follow the path of Lee.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov.

Here is the morning surf chart from SurfGuru.

Source: SurfGuru.com.

Maybe we'll get a little higher surf next weekend too.  

Right now the Treasure Coast is getting a five- or six-foot surf.  The high tides are nice and high, and there is a bit of a west wind.  The surf is east/northeast.  Not too different from yesterday, but it sound ok for surfing, but I'm not expecting erosion for most beaches.

I'll be watching to see ow Fifteen develops.  At this point I don't expect a lot.

The past two or three years the October/November period, especially November,, produced some of the best hunting and finds.

I know it is getting a little boring, but if you adjust, you can still make some finds.  Hunt out the dips and locations where there has been a little erosion from features that are obstacles to the normal flow of sand.  There are some coins and a little jewelry out there, even if it is scarce in most places.

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Off topic, but you might want to know about - or you might not.  Warning - it won't cheer you up.

They Killed My Sister Terri Schiavo, Now They Kill Other People They Don’t Consider “Persons” - LifeNews.com

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

9/15/23 Report - Checking Some Treasure Coast Beaches. A Couple Finds. New Weather Systems As Lee Moves North.

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

John Brooks Beach Thursday Morning.

I went out to the beach Thursday morning.  As I said yesterday, Lee evidently started to move faster than it had been, and the bigger surf hit the Treasure Coast sooner than was expected a couple days ago.

There was more slope than shows in the photo, and it was pretty mushy.

You might be able to see a little dip just to the north of the access, but it isn't much.

It looked just like I expected.  Even though we had a higher surf, sand just got pushed up onto the beach.  I pointed that out when I looked at the forecasts, especially the angle east swells, which I talked about despite the north winds.  The winds were pretty weak.  

Notice the waves breaking at the foot of the beach, suspending sand which would then be pushed up onto the beach.

John Brooks Beach Thursday Morning.

The water had been back to the foot of the dunes at the previous high tide.  You could see shelly sand on the flat beach.

Just left of the center of the photo below, you can see a turtle nest marker, which was a few inches more buried than the last time I was there.  It provides a good marker to compare the level of sand from visit to visit.

Dunes at John Brooks Beach Thursday Morning.

I then visited Walton Rocks to see what the beaches looked like down there.  

Walton Rocks Thursday Morning.

Walton Rocks looked very slightly better than John Brooks, but there was still a lot of renourishment sand. You can see where the waves were breaking on the other side of the dip.  

Walton Rocks Thursday Morning.

You can see the breaking waves lined up parallel to the beach.

There were several surfers.

Surfers At Walton Rocks Thursday Morning.

Since I was going by, I took a look at Fort Pierce South Jetty Park.  You can see that below.

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There was some erosion there because of the jetty.  The cut was at its higherst about four to five feet and got smaller as it went around the bend to the south.

I didn't have much time but decided to do a little hunting for modern items.

There were a few coins and a couple sinkers and the following items. 

One Ten Karat Earring
and One Junk Ring With Missing Stone.

It is always nice to take away at least a little piece of gold.

In summary, the charts and forecasts I've been looking at and posting told me what to expect at the beach, and there were no real surprises.  The higher surf was as predicted, and the angle of the waves and negligible north wind produced erosion only at locations where there were obstacles to the natural flow of sand.

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SurfGuru Surf Chart for Fort Pierce Inlet Area.

Here are the surf charts for the Fort Pierce Inlet and Vero Pier areas.  Not much difference, but the Vero chart shows the surf as being a foot higher for today and the weekend.

SurfGuru Surf Chart for Vero Pier Area.

As Lee moves north, we'll have a couple more days of nice size surf, then our attention will turn to the newer systems developing in the Atlantic.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov.

Good huntng,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net