advice on cache hunting needed.

[neu]

what things should i look for when cache hunting older home sites. ive heard large tree's, wells, and out buildings, but what can i look for to start off. where would a person typically bury their items? chicken coup? pig pen? barns? near the house itself? or just any random spot on the land?

[bergie]

Check under the messages in "my neighbor's hidden cache" string on this same board. You will see lots of good advice.

[True_Metal]

At the base of large old trees seem to be a good spot from all that i have heard. Recently while coinshooting a park near my house i was approached by an older gentleman who was knocking around golf balls. He asked if i had any luck and i told him a few clad coins and a musketball. He went on to inform me that he had a detector but didnt use it much as he never found alot but that his buddy with a detector had found a large glass jar buried at the base of an old oak tree somewhere in the area that was full of IH pennies and buffalo nickles. He laughed and said they figured some kid must have done it years ago and forgot that it was there like it wasnt that great of find. I said that is a hell of a find considering what some of those coins my be worth today and that i hope all the kids long ago did the same thing

Use your imagination. Any large trees, rocks, stonewalls or other types of markers could harbor hidden goodies from days gone by.