A rocky beach = possible silver bits, an odd stapled rock and a whatsit.

[SeaninNH]

Yesterday I went to a beach at low tide and noticed it was cut all down the high tide line and it was cleaned of sand.




I started down by the water and worked my way up to the cut. It seems that everything I found was closer to the low tide line, but I dug out a bunch of crap and a penny.

Later in the day I pull out what looks and feels like silver. It was reading as a nickle 6" down on my land star. I tested a silver ring when I got home and it also reads under a nickle.

I went back today with my girl and spent about 2 hours working the rocks. We made our way to the sand and I wasn't getting much for hits so we went back to the rocky area.

A little while into the search I get a nickle hit at 4" and I dig up another bit of this possible silver.
A little while later I got another nickle hit at 4" and I dig up yet another little bit of this stuff. They are not magnetic and It's somewhat soft. Meaning that it's not brittle.





I also dug up a couple of whatsits.

One is an iron type thing with rocks that seem to be encrusted on it. They are solidly on there and It would take effort to remove them.





Other is a rock.... Yup... a ROCK.

I get a STRONG nickle signal that reads 10+ and it's repeatable so I start digging. At about 14" Isee this rock with a staple it in. I pulled it out and notice that it has staples all around it. Rather odd...


I have no idea what it is, but it seems to be concrete inside like someone split the rock and filled it with rocks and cement then somehow got staples into it.


Another interesting day at the beach.

 

[NHBandit]

Looks like Rye Beach ? Lots of lobster trap related junk in that area. I grew up not far from there if that's where it is and it's also a great place to find sea glass. The wife loves going there to look for bits of that and has a fair collection started. I've never found much of anything there metal detecting though other than lots of junk. The wire type lobster traps they are using these days don't help. I'm betting your "rock" is what's left of a concrete trap weight.

 

[mile-ender]

Hey Sean; How big is the rock whatsit?

It's about the size of a brick so I'm liking the lobster trap balast. I did dig up a bunch of trap parts as well on the same beach.

I don't really think the bits are aluminum. They don't have that feel and they are not thin like a can. I could buy they were lead, but as you can see one of them is textured and the other 2 are smooth. It's almost like they were melted.

I too have dug little bits like you've got - I was pretty sure they were aluminum. I tossed 'em. Pick 'em up all the time when I'm doing beaches on vacation. But hey, if you get 'em tested and they're silver way to go