Florida Colonial Relic Hunters...

[Kirk PA]

Where are you? Yeah, I know a lot of you dive shipwrecks, but Florida has some great treasure on land as well. I would love to see some more Colonial artifacts from this great Colonial state.

Kirk

P.S. Let's see some of your finds!

 

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[colorado14ers]

ive personaly never found any relics but I was planning on going up to the northern part of the state this summer. Where is the best place to hunt for relics in florida?

 

[Kirk PA]

ive personaly never found any relics but I was planning on going up to the northern part of the state this summer. Where is the best place to hunt for relics in florida?

If I lived in Colonial Florida, I would be focusing on lands near the inlets.

Kirk

 

[Frankn]

You just have to do the research! Start with United States Treasure Atlas. Florida is in Volume#3. It starts on page 230.
Here's a good one! #330,Green cove springs. It was a pirate camp. 1774-1784 Gov Tonyo's Plantation was located here. In 17 Th century St. John River was a pirate center. Etc., Etc.

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[Woodland Detectors]

Sounds exciting to me!

 

[Smudge]

I know one problem is the undeveloped waterfront land around here is either owned by the government or privat ecompanies that won't give anyone a pass to search.

It's not impossible, but it is tough. I have two good sites scoped out from years ago that I can't get near. Frustrating.

 

[Frankn]

Smudge: No one ownes the beach, it is open to the public up to the high tide mark and in some cases to the dune line. The only restrictions are on National Seasures & possibly NOAA controlled areas.

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[ivan salis]

its hard to access "historically" interesting spots --most of the water front type area (where almost all of the colonial era type folks lived being in private or corperate hands that say "nope" --its very rough) however areas when you can get access can be quite productive however.---having 3 colonial type eras spanish pre 1763 --english 1763 to 1783 --and spanish again from 1783 to 1821 (when the US got florida) --there is a fair amount of spanish silver lurking about --althought it seems for the last 40 years that almost every city block in florida has at least 1 metal detectorist on it , and every tourist that owns a detector at one point in time has tried their luck on floridas beaches.

many of the best areas have been declared "histioric preserve areas" by the state arch dept. --esp around st augustine (so no metal detecting for relics / old stuff )-- its private land with permission or forget about it --even so called "public" lands --parks and such are off limits there -- beach --dune foot to water line only in some places only

PS i did put up my "colonial pipe bowl" find

 

[Smudge]

Smudge: No one ownes the beach, it is open to the public up to the high tide mark and in some cases to the dune line. The only restrictions are on National Seasures & possibly NOAA controlled areas.

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Sorry, I should have been more specific. I was talking above riverfront, the St. Johns area in particular.

 

[Frankn]

Smudge: Magnolia Springs, on the W bank of St Johns River,1/2 mi. N of Green Cove Springs. In late 1800's was a resort area for wealthy tourest.
Ghost Town Oypas is 3 mi. SW of Middleburg.

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