The dollar ship treasure

Hey X,
It's really annoying..... it's in a little black velvet cloth bag that I put it in for protection.
God knows how many times in a week I stumble across it.....
And then..... when you really want to find it........ no sign!

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Hi Paul

I know the feeling drives me totally nuts when it happens to me. The secret is not to put things in there place once you have found them or should I rather say not change there place short term memory goes for a loop when you start getting older and it aint going to get any better LOL 

Hi Glodnboy

From what I can figure out the world has a cycle Canada will one day be hot like Africa and Africa will become cold like Canada deserts will become green and other places will become desert and that's probably why fossils of exotic animals are found in strange cold and wet places. I'd love to see Siberia 2000 years ago.

Regards Xavier     

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Hello Phil

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You have a unique opportunity by living near to the site. The last time I was there was over 26 years ago. Much I imagine has changed. I would if I was you be looking a location known as Diles lake and detect the sport during the lowest tide possible after an early spring storm.

Careful study of old admiralty charts and tidal information will be of great help. An area called Spanish rocks and around the rock pools around Burry Holms may be worth a look also. There is an old cairn, ruins of an ancient Iron age settlement and old chapel from the dark ages.

I would be interested in any discoveries you make there as from anyone else who has detected there in that wonderful part of the world.

Hardluck.



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HI HARDLUCK,
                    Many thanks for that, i remember about 15 years ago i bought a Garrett detector and with it came a book called detecting on british beaches or something like that!, Anyway it did say about DILES LAKE,and they say that Burry Holms which is Spaniards Rock is where a Spanish ship went down many years ago, also the Blue pool its said have come up with two silver dollars! but you have to be carefull because theres unexploded bombs from WW2, If i find anything of interest i will let you know. Ive had some nice finds around the corner at OXWICH about two years ago, very old gold ring, 8 Roman coins in nice condition,What about the wrecks on CEFN SIDAN beach? do you know anything about that area?
                                                     Regards Phil

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Hello Phil

In regards to Cefn Sidan Beach. It is not exactly part of the Gower coast but further west.

It is an area I am not too familiar with. I visited the site only once in 1978. But I know a little about the history of the history of Cefn Sidan beach.

There has been about 182 reported shipwrecks along the coast. From small vessels to large ocean going ships. There are about 5 vessels that are some times exposed to shifting sands and tides.

2 Iron vessels and 5 known wooden vessels. One large shipwreck is the remains of a clipper ship called "Paul" was wrecked there in 1925. The Iron ships were carrying coal, one floundered there in 1888. Another there at a later date.

There is local tradition the the men from the area in 18th and 19th centuries were known as the Hatchet Men. Wrecking ships supplemented the income of many along the coast. The locals were known for hacking off the bloated fingers for rings on dead sailors and passengers washed ashore from shipwrecks.

There are some historic houses nearby that were built from timbers of shipwrecks. One such house had secret lantern room used by wreckers to lure unsuspecting shipwrecks ashore on the sands.

There was a local wealthy land owning family called the Butler family that had salvage rights to shipwrecks cast upon the beach in the 18th and 19th centuries. As you can imagine the wrecking business grew as the British Empire grew and more ships sailed into the Bristol channel Severn estuary.

Hardluck

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