A Treasure Coast find

[Gary Drayton]

My detecting time was limited during the storm but I did manage to hit one Treasure Coast beach over the weekend that was eroding nicely. Although I did not find any reales I did manage to find a few older things including several ship spikes, a nice olive jar shard and this old encrusted hinge.

 

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[NYwaterhunter]

Ahhh... Gary, are you not feeling well?
I got use to opening your post and seeing like 4 / 5 gold rings, some 22 K, 40 pennyweight gold chains, spanish coins !
Yup, sounds like your down to the nitty gritty !
Still.... nice finds.
Keep er going!
I'm headed to Rochester NY in the morning. Lake Ontario had North winds at 40-50 MPH hitting the beaches. With my luck it will have piled the sand inward instead of making some cuts.
Oh well. Don't know till I get there.
Take care,
Gary G.

 

[jffbrk]

I was down there too..... on Saturday. I found some modern coins 12-18 inches.... I've started giving the modern coins to kids who are fascinated with my detector on the beach..... I was in the area of the museum on the beach. No one I met was finding any old coins. Nice find on the hinge....

 

[hamiddetecting]

 

[Gary Drayton]

Ahhh... Gary, are you not feeling well?
I got use to opening your post and seeing like 4 / 5 gold rings, some 22 K, 40 pennyweight gold chains, spanish coins !
Yup, sounds like your down to the nitty gritty !
Still.... nice finds.
Keep er going!
I'm headed to Rochester NY in the morning. Lake Ontario had North winds at 40-50 MPH hitting the beaches. With my luck it will have piled the sand inward instead of making some cuts.
Oh well. Don't know till I get there.
Take care,
Gary G.

I have been spending a lot of time searching out of the way sites lately, unfortunately my love of older shipwreck finds puts a dent in the amount of glittery finds that I am able to post. It is tough sometimes going hours in between signals but I am hoping that one day I will hit the motherlode on some unsexy beach that hardly sees a metal detector.

 

[OBN]

NIce treasure Gary, alway enjoy seeing history..

 

[s.c.shooter]

Gary, looks like you found the hinge. Now go find the rest of the chest!

 

[dewcon4414]

Gary would you tell if you found some reals Awful quit on that side of the island. Interesting find Gary.

Dew

 

[Gary Drayton]

Gary would you tell if you found some reals Awful quit on that side of the island. Interesting find Gary.

Dew

Good question and my honest answer would be no, not until I make sure I had completely covered the area. When I found my 1836 gold coin last October I did not post it until a couple of weeks after, just in case anyone saw me searching the beach.

 

[lookindown]

Good question and my honest answer would be no, not until I make sure I had completely covered the area. When I found my 1836 gold coin last October I did not post it until a couple of weeks after, just in case anyone saw me searching the beach.

Good, honest answer, I would do the same.

 

[dewcon4414]

Here here Gary..... I raise my cut to that answer. If i found a gold coin.... sorry but there would be some beach erosion of the Dew kind. You do find some of the most interesting stuff over there. Its hard for most of us to drag ourselves away for the traffic filled beaches.

Dew

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

Here here Gary..... I raise my cut to that answer. If i found a gold coin.... sorry but there would be some beach erosion of the Dew kind. You do find some of the most interesting stuff over there. Its hard for most of us to drag ourselves away for the traffic filled beaches.

Dew

Lol fortescue beach is always fun

 

[SonnyFl]

Where there's a Hinge there's a chest! That had to sound like a bomb? Very nice!

 

[Sir Gala Clad]

Nice find Gary:
Were you able to date the hinge and determine how old it is and determine if it is Spanish?

 

[lorraine]

I like that hinge find, Gary!

Super find!

Lorraine