GOLDandSilver
Jr. Member
Hi, this is really my first post here regarding a find, mostly due to shame (despite my hopeful sounding handle) 
I have been reading here for YEARS but have had little time to get out with my detector, and, when I do...well let's just say I never thought clad was that photogenic. So I've kept my secret and lived vicariously via everyone else's finds.
I realize I am breaking a cardinal rule here by posting a query without a photo however when I came down here (to the Topsail) I believed that once again I'd find nothing of interest so I kindly left the small point and shoot at home and brought my pro camera which means that later on today I will have to take the time to set up somehow to get the right pics, change them from RAW to JPG...well you see.
In any case, as boring as my preamble was, I have a most interesting query....is there such a thing as Copper ingots? I was detecting along yesterday mostly hoping to burn off my crab melt sandwich than even daring to hope I'd find anything more than CLAD (I come every year, I've brought my DFX every year I had it, I find clad bits every year, not even enough to buy beer!!! and this in Pirate land) and sure enough I walked a good half mile without even a pull tab signal (although I did eyeball the entire top to a can just as I was getting started)..then the detector shrieked (it was set on jewelry/beach) and due to the delightfull HIGH sound and not the grumble of iron, I almost did a happy dance prior to digging...cause I KNEW it hadda be something good. So I scoop and bullseye...and I saw a green metal bit and just about cried, heck, even the high signals suck now
I stick it in my apron and get back to business (bend and dig is good for the thighs).
So, I dug and dug and dug in my now honey hole, up and down and all around the general area close to the water and above the tide line.. I found smaller bits (who knew that even a 1/4 inch sliver of copper find would make your ears hurt with the sound??) but mostly the bits are uniform; about two inches long, 1 inch wide, rough edges (crude) some are of uniform thickness, but others appear to vary from end to end on thickness. They have been in the water long enough to be covered with the delightful green crude but lemme tell you the color underneath is beautiful, it just shimmers. I have them all soaking in distilled water. All of the pieces that appear to be uniform in size have horizonal impressions on them, about 1/4 wide fairly evenly spaced (not precise but gives the impression)...there are three on each piece they appear to be impressions versus carvings ect. It looks as if someone took a playdough roller when the copper was soft and just rolled it over the "sheet" leaving these marks.
I thought OH GREAT, I'm digging up some ship's plumbing...but not. These bits are flat, only one bit that is twisted could ever be wildly imagined to be part of a pipe. SO all around my honey hole I am digging these bits, and clad too...WHEE would not want to go home cladless...then I got to do my very first REAL happy dance...a 1941 Mercury Dime popped up. She's sea worn and not shiny silver color sorta dull gray from laying about in salt water for a long time..but she's my first
So dinnertime was bearing down on me; I swung all the way back to the house, not a &%&#* signal, not even a pull tab or a Lincoln, but dern if I didn't spend the three previous hours digging up clad and copper bits just as happy as a clam..
So, you folks ever heard anything like that in copper? I promise I will take photos but please be kind in complaining that they are not currently attached...getting this camera set up is a pain, and files converted, and I see the size limit is 256KB (the files I start with AFTER conversion will be about 10MB each). This is the last time i leave the little camera at home And right about now I am feeling pretty proud of myself for making room in the trunk for the tripod even though I thought to myself, "I'll never use it."
tl;dr version: Size, weight, color (under the green) consistent with copper ..and I just wanted a few ideas about why the heck copper is laying about on the beach, in similar size bits, with similar size (2 inches long, 1 inch wide,) similar thickness with three horizonal impressions on it...did Pirates do Copper?
Thanks, and I will try to put some pics up later on this evening.
I have been reading here for YEARS but have had little time to get out with my detector, and, when I do...well let's just say I never thought clad was that photogenic. So I've kept my secret and lived vicariously via everyone else's finds.I realize I am breaking a cardinal rule here by posting a query without a photo however when I came down here (to the Topsail) I believed that once again I'd find nothing of interest so I kindly left the small point and shoot at home and brought my pro camera which means that later on today I will have to take the time to set up somehow to get the right pics, change them from RAW to JPG...well you see.
In any case, as boring as my preamble was, I have a most interesting query....is there such a thing as Copper ingots? I was detecting along yesterday mostly hoping to burn off my crab melt sandwich than even daring to hope I'd find anything more than CLAD (I come every year, I've brought my DFX every year I had it, I find clad bits every year, not even enough to buy beer!!! and this in Pirate land) and sure enough I walked a good half mile without even a pull tab signal (although I did eyeball the entire top to a can just as I was getting started)..then the detector shrieked (it was set on jewelry/beach) and due to the delightfull HIGH sound and not the grumble of iron, I almost did a happy dance prior to digging...cause I KNEW it hadda be something good. So I scoop and bullseye...and I saw a green metal bit and just about cried, heck, even the high signals suck now
I stick it in my apron and get back to business (bend and dig is good for the thighs).So, I dug and dug and dug in my now honey hole, up and down and all around the general area close to the water and above the tide line.. I found smaller bits (who knew that even a 1/4 inch sliver of copper find would make your ears hurt with the sound??) but mostly the bits are uniform; about two inches long, 1 inch wide, rough edges (crude) some are of uniform thickness, but others appear to vary from end to end on thickness. They have been in the water long enough to be covered with the delightful green crude but lemme tell you the color underneath is beautiful, it just shimmers. I have them all soaking in distilled water. All of the pieces that appear to be uniform in size have horizonal impressions on them, about 1/4 wide fairly evenly spaced (not precise but gives the impression)...there are three on each piece they appear to be impressions versus carvings ect. It looks as if someone took a playdough roller when the copper was soft and just rolled it over the "sheet" leaving these marks.
I thought OH GREAT, I'm digging up some ship's plumbing...but not. These bits are flat, only one bit that is twisted could ever be wildly imagined to be part of a pipe. SO all around my honey hole I am digging these bits, and clad too...WHEE would not want to go home cladless...then I got to do my very first REAL happy dance...a 1941 Mercury Dime popped up. She's sea worn and not shiny silver color sorta dull gray from laying about in salt water for a long time..but she's my first
So dinnertime was bearing down on me; I swung all the way back to the house, not a &%&#* signal, not even a pull tab or a Lincoln, but dern if I didn't spend the three previous hours digging up clad and copper bits just as happy as a clam..
So, you folks ever heard anything like that in copper? I promise I will take photos but please be kind in complaining that they are not currently attached...getting this camera set up is a pain, and files converted, and I see the size limit is 256KB (the files I start with AFTER conversion will be about 10MB each). This is the last time i leave the little camera at home
And right about now I am feeling pretty proud of myself for making room in the trunk for the tripod even though I thought to myself, "I'll never use it."tl;dr version: Size, weight, color (under the green) consistent with copper ..and I just wanted a few ideas about why the heck copper is laying about on the beach, in similar size bits, with similar size (2 inches long, 1 inch wide,) similar thickness with three horizonal impressions on it...did Pirates do Copper?
Thanks, and I will try to put some pics up later on this evening.
Here is another shrapnel story. 
