"The Dune Line"

[Vonzipper]

"The Dune Line"

Hi, I am Eric. I found this forum by using a search engine to look up Sebastian Inlet treasure, (I am going there soon). I found a thread where the statement was made "we want to hunt the dune line". I am a full time RVer and I hunt the beaches out of Jacksonville. I hunt with an Explorer and a new SeaHunter II. Recently, the northeaster has made our beach have a two to three foot drop, about 50 feet from the edge of the dunes. I have concentrated on the edge of water at low tide, but the statement in the thread made me wonder, "Can heavy silver and gold items be moved all the way to the edge of the high tide mark and would that be the best place to look?" Or maybe I should be looking in the soft sand at the "dune line". I have found an old sword hilt and a clump of iron, about the size of a football, both lying in the middle of the beach. What do you all think the iron is?

 

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[Born2Dtect]

Re: "The Dune Line"

A good storm surge can move anything anywhere. Did you see the Casino barge in the parking lot in Louisinana? The question is where will it end up. It will keep sinking and moving until it hits harder soil. Thet is what I would look, if you can find it.

Ed

 

[wreckdiver1715]

Re: "The Dune Line"

Eric, welcome to the Forum. Hunting at the base of the dune is highly recommended after a heavy storm that causes erosion of the dune. After last years hurricanes hit down along the Treasure Coast, most of the finds were coming out of the dunes as they started to slip into the ocean.
There are basically two schools of thought as to how treasure ends up on the beach. Some theorize that artifacts wash up onto the beach, and others theorize that the artifacts have been on the beach all along and are revealed after a good storm causes erosion.
I personally think that it is a combination of the two. The beach is a very dynamic environment that never stops changing.