SeaninNH
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- Jul 16, 2010
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F70
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
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Concrete is a combination of rocks and cement. Its called aggregate I believe. The rocks are mixed in with the cement to make it stronger. Buy a bag of premix concrete and you will see the rocks. The wire mesh is also to make it stronger or it may be part of the cage. Wave action and tumbling appears to have "squared off" or flattened the ends. If its staples, I cant explain that. It makes more sense that the wire, or whatever it is, was inserted into the concrete before it hardened.SeaninNH said:Ok I just checked out the rock a little more. The staple type things don't lign up with each other and are at different angles. One of the end staples is squared off and the others are rounded. They are all clearly into the rock, There are depressions on each of the contact points as well.
Best suggestion I've heard is the lobster trap balast, but why the staples and why a rock with rocks and cement poured into it? Wouldn't they just use a brick or a solid rock?
They appear to line up in the picture.SeaninNH said:Ok I just checked out the rock a little more. The staple type things don't lign up with each other and are at different angles.
Believe what you wish. I tried. They look exactly like some of the melted pieces in the links. Are you saying the homes were built before aluminum was invented? Like I said if you think they are silver (or something else), take them to a pawn shop to have them tested. You could also make a test solution; formula is in the links.SeaninNH said:No, this was in Massachusetts. I was thinking the same thing. I didn't really see anything that looked like these in the links. They do resemble the first link in a way, but these seem to be as you said, flat on sides. It's like they have a right angle as if they were melted in something oppsed to just dropped in a fire and formed blobs like you said. Most of the ones in the links didn't look clean either. These seem clean and less porous than the links.
Shrapnel will be steel or copper. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,124889.0.htmlStegner said:The two pieces I found were on the Jersey Shore - I was told that in WWII there was a lot of target practice that occurred off the coast, particularly down around Atlantic City area and that the beaches down there are littered with lots of the shrapnel from that - could this be what we've found?
I know you didnt say silver. I just mentioned that because everyone that finds these are hoping they are silver. What are you hoping for? I agree these melted blobs may not look like aluminum to someone that hasnt seen them but I have seen them before many many times.. Some aluminum has right angles you know. If they are not aluminum, they are pot metal or some other worthless zinc/lead based metal blob or an angled boat piece, maybe not melted but worn by the ocean, so it really doesnt matter does it?SeaninNH said:bigcypresshunter no no I didn't say that. They just don't seem like aluminum to me that's all I was saying. I don't think they are silver. I just found it odd that they all register as something different.