A2coins
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I should have quit when I dug up the blanket!!!!!I hate this snow 2 weeks of this I love reading all the posts and stories I wanted to start this thread to hear some stories of worst finds.
Did you keep the metal box.....I was hunting the back yard of an abandoned old house and got a good hit at about 6 inches. Digging down I make out the shape of a metal box that's about 12" X 8" X 6".
Pulling it out of the ground gave me visions of the "big find", hoards of old silver coins and jewelry was going through my head. Once out of the ground I pried open the lid
with my digging tool and found the skeleton of some kind of rodent, it was ether a pet hamster or a rat! It must have been buried 20 or 30 years ago....glad it wasn't fresh!
I was hunting the back yard of an abandoned old house and got a good hit at about 6 inches. Digging down I make out the shape of a metal box that's about 12" X 8" X 6".
Pulling it out of the ground gave me visions of the "big find", hoards of old silver coins and jewelry was going through my head. Once out of the ground I pried open the lid
with my digging tool and found the skeleton of some kind of rodent, it was ether a pet hamster or a rat! It must have been buried 20 or 30 years ago....glad it wasn't fresh!
If the bottom was gone then the pet wasn't dead and dug its way out........I once saw a metal tin too, around the same size as the one you found. One and a half feet deep in the woods, under tons of huge roots. I had the same thoughts as you when I dug it. I pulled it out, a huge cookie metal cookie box from the late 1950's lol. I am now relieved it was not someone's pet after reading all the horror stories on here . I regret not keeping it a little, it was very cool looking, unfortunately the bottom was completed toasted. Makes me wonder if there was a pet in it at some point after all, it is just not there anymore.....
Did you keep the metal box.....