Finds for 12-11-16 Rehoboth and Coin Beach

[BeachPirates]

Drove 3.5 hrs Saturday night to do some detecting Sunday. Went to Rehoboth first where they were about to replenish and found the bullets, shells and what appear to be fragments from some type of munitions. After 3-4 hours i drove 20 minutes south to Coin Beach to try my luck but only came up with a quarter and 2 tabs. No other coins anywhere i looked and certainly none of the good stuff. Was very interesting digging the bullets (found 2 in the same hole) and fragments though. Would like to know what exactly those brass looking things came from, one fragment did have a number 2 on it. Also the black colored cones rang up as a very high, solid sounding tone on the Sovereign. Have no clue about those either. Maybe some type of primer or something?

 

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[1KBlueTuber]

Believe those are part of the stringers for lack of a better term that joined the munitions together for feeding through those rapid fire anti-aircraft guns.

 

[Tommybuckets]

I've been told they are parts of fuses for ordinance that was test fired there in WW2. Bluetuber could be correct they are the chain that feeds the rounds. Theres a ton of that junk out there but good mantlevpieces if you didn't have any 50 cal around lol. Pirates, what type(s) of detectors are you swinging?

 

[cudamark]

One of our beaches has a lot of that junk too. They sound just too good to ignore!

 

[47thelement]

Those 3 story cement silos you see just south of Dewey Beach and South Bethany are WWII sub survailance towers. They peppered the east coast watching for German U-boats. These beaches were also used to fail in the 50 caliber machine guns that were mounted in each tower. I've pulled 100s of 50 calibers off the beaches in this area. It's so bad it's almost no fun hunting the area. The most I ever have pulled off coin beach is a tie rod. It has been replenished so many times in the last decade that you couldn't find anything from The Faithful Steward if you had as much equipment as Tony Beets.

 

[Tommybuckets]

Yea I got antique pull tabs at a foot from coin beach. Not much doing there lately.