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Today I was working a new permission in an old part of town. The property has roots to the 1650’s, unfortunately the old home is gone (30 years ago) a new one in its place. The front, side and rear of the property yielded nothing of that vintage or for that matter old at all; only clad coins and a matchbox car!
It was clear the dirt has been moved and much of the area had a lot of fill; at least that was what the owner said.
So, I turned to the woods which appeared for the most part to be untouched. I was walking around with only silence in my ears. I started working every tree that appeared to have some age…only a few older shot gun shells. So I thought where would somebody sit in this area? I spotted a rock sticking out of the ground about four feet in height and fairly flat on the top. While working around the rock about three-quarters around I get a deep high tone.
I dig and dig until about 15 inches then pinpoint a round object at the bottom of the hole. It was definitely some type of jewelry or small coin bank (measured at home: dimensions of 3 inches wide and 1.5 inches tall). Upon extracting the object I could see that the top appeared to open, so I placed the fragile object into a plastic sandwich bag for a closer inspection at home. The rest of the woods yielded no keeper targets!
Upon arriving at home, I slowly opened the object and tooth picked the dirt carefully out of the container. The contents contained some jewelry, small gem stones and tiny shells. I will test the diamonds, but I am sure they are not real. The photos show the process of the find and its hidden treasure.
Thank you for looking!
GL & HH
Doc
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Goodies
Hidden Goodies cleaned
Close up of cleaned up goodies
Today I was working a new permission in an old part of town. The property has roots to the 1650’s, unfortunately the old home is gone (30 years ago) a new one in its place. The front, side and rear of the property yielded nothing of that vintage or for that matter old at all; only clad coins and a matchbox car!
It was clear the dirt has been moved and much of the area had a lot of fill; at least that was what the owner said. So, I turned to the woods which appeared for the most part to be untouched. I was walking around with only silence in my ears. I started working every tree that appeared to have some age…only a few older shot gun shells. So I thought where would somebody sit in this area? I spotted a rock sticking out of the ground about four feet in height and fairly flat on the top. While working around the rock about three-quarters around I get a deep high tone. I dig and dig until about 15 inches then pinpoint a round object at the bottom of the hole. It was definitely some type of jewelry or small coin bank (measured at home: dimensions of 3 inches wide and 1.5 inches tall). Upon extracting the object I could see that the top appeared to open, so I placed the fragile object into a plastic sandwich bag for a closer inspection at home. The rest of the woods yielded no keeper targets! Upon arriving at home, I slowly opened the object and tooth picked the dirt carefully out of the container. The contents contained some jewelry, small gem stones and tiny shells. I will test the diamonds, but I am sure they are not real. The photos show the process of the find and its hidden treasure.
Thank you for looking!
GL & HH
Doc
After target extraction
Looking for goodies
Goodies
Hidden Goodies cleaned
Close up of cleaned up goodies
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