TREASURE HUNTING
A Guide To Seeking Treasure
TREASURE HUNTING
A Guide To Seeking Treasure
What Is Treasure Hunting?
Treasure hunting is the physical search for lost items or artifacts with market value making the industry more often than not fuelled by the antiquities market.
Treasure-hunting can be a controversial activity, as locations such as sunken wrecks or cultural sites may be protected by national or international law concerned with property ownership, marine salvage, sovereign or state vessels, commercial diving regulations, protection of cultural heritage and trade controls.
Treasure Hunting makes a great hobby for those who enjoy solving puzzles, doing research, and exploring the world.
The thrill of the chase is an amazing feeling and one of the main reasons to get involved.
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Why Get Into Treasure Hunting?
Treasure Hunting makes a great hobby for those who enjoy solving puzzles, doing research, and exploring the world. The thrill of the chase is an amazing feeling and one of the main reasons to get involved.
Along the way, no matter what form of treasure hunting we get involved with you will need to do at least some research which although it may seem strange to some, it can be an enjoyable activity.
In doing your research your will expand your knowledge of history, arts, science, and many other things (also useful for the pub quiz – it’s a win, win). In some cases, there will be a degree of complex puzzle solving and even an excuse to get outdoors, see nature, and investigate new places.
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Types Of Treasure Hunting
The practice of treasure hunting can take many forms from deep sea diving to scavenger hunts.
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Scavenger Hunts
Treasure hunts designed for promotional or competition like Areas Grey’s Treasure Quests.
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Geocaching
Find containers hidden using GPS or for the purpose of an outdoor recreational activity.
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Scavenger Hunts
Treasure hunts designed for promotional or competition like Areas Grey’s Treasure Quests.
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Lost Treasure
There are many legends of lost treasure around the world with few clues to their whereabouts.
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Code Of Conduct
Treasure hunters get a bad reputation due to the reckless acts of those who have quite literally bulldozed into what were historically significant sites which should have been preserved for archaeological investigation. Does this mean all Treasure Hunters are the same?
Underwater archaeologist and sometime treasure hunter Peter 
Throckmorton, in a paper he wrote in 1969 as part of a Historical Archaeology Forum on E. Lee Spence’s salvage of a Civil War blockade runner, addressing the question of whether treasure hunting and archaeology are in conflict, stated:
“The foregoing discussion may seem like an attack on Mr. Spence. I do not mean this to be so. A whole new branch of archaeology, that of Mycenaean studies, was founded by Heinrich Schliemann, who also had the courage to remember his dreams … It is right to dream, and it would be the worst kind of mistake on the part of the state to discourage the big dreams of men like Mr. Spence, and to let a project requiring that sort of enterprise fall into the hands of what Mr. Spence’s friend terms ‘some bloody historical society’ which might lay the dead hand of unimaginative and stereotyped thinking on Mr. Spence’s courage and ability.”
In 1972, Spence and Throckmorton, along with three other men, were awarded the degree of Doctor of Marine Histories by the College of Marine Arts on July 16, 1972, becoming first people in the world to be awarded a doctorate for work in marine archaeology.
Letter to E. Lee Spence from Kenneth Friedman, Executive Secretary, Sea Research Society, published in Sea Research Society Papers, 1972, Spence, Volume VI, p. 159
Sourced from Wikipedia
Image of Peter Throckmorton: Sourced from illicit antiquities
As someone who respects and appreciates history and the value of archaeological finds and yet can’t deny that I am by definition a treasure hunter. I have to notion that not all treasure hunters are ‘blood thirsty pirates’.
Areas Grey doesn’t condone, promote or partake in any illegal activities which is why I have dedicated myself to continually attending studies in archaeology and to apply the principles of preservation to treasure hunting through a strict code of conduct which is intended to guide anyone who is affiliated with Areas Grey, including it’s users and contributors.
See Areas Grey’s social media pages for #WhatNotToDo posts to see prime examples of the kind of treasure hunting activities the code of conduct prevents.
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