Metal Detecting Finds

I've pulled a great deal of stuff out of the ground, from underwater, and everywhere in between. Here are some that I find most interesting, at least to me. This is a work - in- progress.

Beryllium Copper artifact from Cape Canaveral beach
Found on the pubic beach, it would seem to be a
fragment of an aborted Space-X mission.

Closeup of beryllium-copper artifact. Probably from an aborted Space-X mission.

Steamboat hardware, a bronze strap and ring, manufactured around 1870 by Wilcox-Crittenden of Middletown, Connecticut. I found it along the shores of Lake Jesup, in Central Florida, near the site of a 19th Century steamboat wharf.

A small musket ball found near an old Seminole War site

A musket trigger guard found by Patti, my significant other, while we were hunting an old Seminole War site.

I found this with my Minelab E-Trac about 18" deep at the site of a 19th Century steamboat wharf and trading post on Lake Jesup, here in Central Florida. I think it is a carved grapeshot, perhaps made by a soldier, farmer, Indian, or steamboat crew. Several museums have evaluated it and say they have nothing to compare it to?!?!?!

These were a one-day, one-beach find along the City of Cape Canaveral's public beach. Two silver, and one stainless steel. No ID inside the rings, as I usually try and return them to their owners if I can.

1899 Barber Quarter Found while hunting with  the Forgotten History Hunters group in Central Florida

A 1942 paper-thin silver quarter found 15-inches deep in an old 19th Century
orange grove with my Minelab E-Trac metal detector

A 19th Century one-quarter ounce mercantile scale weight found in
Sanford Florida during a road tear-out a  few years ago.

A hefty Italian solid silver chain found at Cocoa Beach, Florida in the clay
hard-pan. I originally thought I'd found a small dog chain!