Cache At The Beach!

[DrJoePrime]

My Exciting Cache Day:

No secret to where this happened..one of my usual beaches ...the lovely sand of Seal Beach, California. It's been pretty slow this year. Silver rings and jewelery still being lost but the Gold seems to be getting rarer. I generally do hit one or two pieces of jewelery every hunt but more likely to be Junque. I never study my finds while detecting...I just put them away and think about the possibilities.

This particular day I hit a piece of jewelery and my heart beat a little faster. Looked good...might be Gold! Next swing and another! My heart beat faster! Every swing got me another piece. It started to get a bit uncomfortable as I was only 5 feet away from some sunbathers (I normally never get closer). There was jewelery strewn in a small area about 5 feet wide by 12 feet long. Locate, dig, put it away. I guess I do it well as nobody noticed what I was finding. They were all between 3" and 6" deep and were found with the PI in the dry sand about 20 feet from a lifeguard tower. When I thought I had everything I went back to the car and got the XP Deus out. I found 3 more signals and 3 more pieces. Total is 30 pieces.

Unfortunately it is all junque. Not a Gold or Silver in the bunch. There were a couple of matching earrings and 2 mismatching cufflinks with the rest assorted broaches and earrings. I've got these all together in a small bag to remember my excitement as I was digging them up. The jewelery was not real...but the Excitement sure was!

In thinking about how the "cache" got there...one possibility I wonder if these were included or part of ashes thrown in the ocean. However all the pieces were dry and had no water damage and can't have been there longer than one day as the spot is hit hard by at least a half dozen of us.

So it's a mystery.

The first photo is of my favorites from the bunch...and the second is the whole bunch.

HH Joe

 

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[lookindown]

Maybe someone planted them and was off at a distance laughing. I know people sometimes throw down coins when they see a detector coming toward them.

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Very cool!Wow! All in one area at once, a very exciting day for you. I know in 2009 a elderly man in Ocean City NJ went down to the beach an threw out his collection of foreign coins out on the beach. Hunters started to find them and then found out how they got there. Some were valuable coins!

 

[gold fever pete]

Joe, I know exactly how you feel. We missed each other today. Went to your local haunt. Got one silver ring, one silver toe ring and a silver bracelet. No gold. I had the same rush of excitement you felt. See ya out there. HH All Pete -- will post when I get pics.

 

[herb n surf]

You had a busy and fun day. Thanks for sharing .

 

[Da Sand Crab]

I hate to throw this thought into the mix, but maybe its the unwanted pieces from a robbery
buried after the thieves took only the good stuff. Years ago a friend of mine some silver
and costume jewelry in a small area of beach. Being a small community, when he
told people about his fortune the items were identified as part of the take in a robbery.
The thieves kept only the gold and buried the rest of the evidence at the beach nearby.

 

[Nohea]

Hey Sand Crab, while you and 808bd were finding your sparkles (very nice by the way), I came across an area where I found a couple of cufflinks and a fake gold ring in the water and wet sand. I stopped to talk to one of the regulars, and he also found some junk jewelry in the dry sand in the same area. We talked about various reasons for the items to wind up on the beach, but unfortunately, yours is probably the most likely.

 

[search and recovery]

I can imagine your excitement in those few moments. Just to hit so much jewelry at one time makes for a great day and a permanent memory. Congrats!

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

While not happy about the possibility of robbery, it does fit. i do remember seeing a post with earrings sets pictured on cards. One poster ask if he found them already on the cars as a joke. The answer was well yes I did. It was then he realized they were stolen items!

 

[gold nuggets]

I hate to throw this thought in the mix, but maybe its the unwanted pieces from a robbery
buried after the thieves took only the good stuff. Years ago a friend of mine found a pile of silver
and costume jewelry in a small area of beach. Being a small community, when he
told people about his fortune the items were identified as part of the take in a robbery.
The thieves kept only the gold and buried the rest of the evidence at the beach nearby.

I was going to suggest this same thing Crab....a very good possibility. Still some very
nice finds and like you said, the excitement was real. GL and HH Gold Nuggets

 

[DrJoePrime]

On further thought it seems the possibility that this was accidentally lost is zero. It was put there on purpose but the purpose unknown.

The gold colored earring from the 1st photo has "NV" stamped on it and a few days ago I found a good looking gold colored (almost fooled me) finger ring with the same marking. [other than the obvious No Value] Anyone seen that before and know what it means?


HH Joe

 

[gravediggermax-vabeachva]

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[JP]

Cool to find so much jewelry at one time.

Is there a possibility they may have been the "toys of a child?" I always wondered why sometimes there are so many pennies in small areas at the beach. That question was answered last year when I saw that some parents give them to their kids to play with. One kid probably had a container of 200 to 300 pennies he was playing with at Siesta Key. I can imagine that the grandmother may have given the grandchild the costume jewelry to play with.