Detecting Florida Gulf Coast Naples Cape Corel, and Ft Myers W/Minelab Excalibur May 2009

This video is a good 'How To' on shallow water metal detecting.

French & Indian War- Deerlick Rock, Lewis County NY - Potential Treasure Site?

Supposedly the story goes that a group of French soldiers retreating through the Black River Valley of Upstate New York, cached money(payroll) and personal effects in an area now called Deerlick Rock near Glenfield New York. The soldiers most likely continued down stream on the Black River, never to return.
In the early 1900's a large cache of rusted french weapons were discovered in the area ... just a short distance from Deerlick Rock along with other Colonial and Indian relics!!
It sounds like a pretty safe bet that some careful metal detecting should produce some more relic's in this area. I'm positive this site has more to share!!
I've included a google map of the area in my last post. If you like to join me and my partner 'Treasure Dave' this spring on a recon of this site, just drop me a line ....  dan@treasure-blog.com

French & Indian War- Deerlick Rock, Lewis County NY - Potential Treasure Site?

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More Thoughts on the " St Ledger Payroll Treasure"

Ever since I made my first post in regard to the 'St. Ledger Lost Revolutionary War payroll Treasure' .. I can't stop thinking about it! Even though I'm well over a thousand miles away in Florida and should be out hitting the beach, I've been secretly making plans for a 2010 'North Woods Metal Detector Assault' on Jefferson and Lewis Counties in Upstate New York!
I will be recruiting a small 'elite force' of Detectoid's for this mission with a couple of different ' Treasure leads' in mind. I do need some local intel ... so if your on scene and have already done some research or you would like to pool resources, just let me know!
I have no doubt that at least one of the Lost Treasure tales will bear fruit ...

"Seneca, Ontario, and Haldimand at the Carleton Island Anchorage in May 1780.

Now, What's Interesting about The St Ledger Payroll Treasure!

The St Ledger Revolutionary War Treasure tale is almost a perfect example of how a Treasure lead might get a little confusing after a few hundred years. Lets start out with present day Redwood, New York. It is rather close to the St Lawrence River and one would have to ask why would St Ledger's army be here in the first place? www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycalexa/alex1855.htm  They would have been going in the wrong direction, or was their a reason for the British army to be here? Is this the 'Redwood' that they were talking about? Were they talking about Alexandria Bay? You have to ask yourself all of those questions and you must rule these things out !
Next question you would need to answer, where is Cape Peninsula? Or were they talking about 'Point Peninsula' out side of Chaumont Bay? This was along the water route that St Ledger used on the way to the Mohawk Valley. Maybe their was a settlement in the vicinity of Point Peninsula named Redwood? Or was 'Cape Peninsula' just a long forgotten settlement on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario?  This my friends, is where the research starts!

Brevet Gen. Barry St. Leger and the Lost Revolutionary War Payroll

REDWOOD, NEW YORK

  Another Revolutionary War treasure may possibly be found in New York's Jefferson County. This tale had its origin from a British plan by Col. Barry St. Leger to capture Fort Stanwix on the Mohawk River. Sailing from Carleton Island on the St. Lawrence upriver  to Lake Ontario with a strong force, the invaders were swamped in a violent storm near Cape Peninsula.
  One or more of the unfortunate boats carried about 20,000 British pounds for paying troops and enlisting the aid of settlers along the route. The sodden troops managed to drag some of the money chests ashore and bury them for safekeeping in the vicinity of Redwood, after which they hastened to rejoin the main body of troops.
  Why St. Leger never recovered the cache of coins is unknown. We only know that an organization called the Great Adirondack Treasure Company was formed, in the 1920's to search for this stash however, this venture never got off the ground.

Man With Metal Detector Finds Biggest Haul Of Anglo-Saxon Gold Ever Discovered

Here it is again, this has to be one of the most awesome finds of all time made with a metal detector!