Graveyard detecting. Yea or Nay

[Jason in Enid]

You’ve never seen a real jackalope? My grandpa had one on the wall of his den!

Never seen one? Hell, I've ridden one!

 

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[Marchas45]

One Word: NEVER

 

[fistfulladirt]

Never seen one? Hell, I've ridden one!


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OK now that takes the cake!

 

[Force_of_Iron]

Well this thread just went off the rails completely :/

 

[CASPER-2]

In the 70s - it was common in new england for people to detect old cemeteries - i know of some nice finds found in them
The guys I knew that did - did get permission from ground keepers and usually stayed away from the stones - you have to remember too that back then most machines
would only go down 6-8 inches with a normal coil - they used knives to cut plugs not the shovels they use now a days.
i know someone that found a rare spanish gold coin in one out in the woods - another guy made a killing in old coins cause town held picnics and kids hung out in an old one
i did okay hitting out side of a few - you figure folks used handkerchiefs a lot in old days - guys in the pockets (with their change) women in the pocket books (with their change)
everyone got off their horses outside and out of their carriages/wagons too. Ive gotten colonial coppers outside gates at a few and LG cents and seated too. This was found outside
a real old cemetery - was probably lost in the snow.

 

[chub]

I couldnt go even if I wanted to....even with the sens down below 30 the F75 will blast past deep 6

chub

 

[xcopperstax]

I think there's no one correct answer to this. There are times when it's ok and times when it isn't. I am in a club and within the last year or two somebody approached the club and presented this scenario: There was a local cemetery that had been overgrown: it was a poor persons cemetery with little metal markers for the graves that were lost to the naked eye. An authority associated with the place sought people to metal detect it to find the markers and people could keep anything else (coins etc.) they found. I don't see how that scenario would be a problem or disrespectful to anyone on either side of the dirt. I've never detected a graveyard and I don't plan to either, but in the right situation I don't think it disrespects anything. There are a lot of fine lines around this issue so I think it can be done in a respectful way in some cases, but not all the time. That being said we have plenty of idiots in our pastime who leave open holes, leave trash and have no respect for anything so it's hard to imagine all of the transgressions that have probably happened with this type of detecting over time.

 

[Slowtaknow]

No, but it would be an awesome prank on a tv show like canada's just for laughs or our old candid camera.

 

[signal_line]

Just remember anthrax spores can survive for 50 years. Everybody remembers "The Mummy's Curse" at the pyramids. That's thousands of years old.

 

[xcopperstax]

Just remember anthrax spores can survive for 50 years. Everybody remembers "The Mummy's Curse" at the pyramids. That's thousands of years old.

I remember a story a few years ago where some archeologists were excavating a medieval hospital in England and they had to wear hazmat suits because they were concerned that there might still be stuff infected by the plague. Pretty crazy to think about that.

 

[tinpan]

Hi ,Most of gemstones and two thirds of the worlds gold was found after 1950 . What do you think is in a graveyard any way. Stale Donut . TP

 

[stevethebeachhunter]

Graveyard detecting:Yay or nay??

It had /better be 'nay', because all graves are protected by law, as to unauthorized digging in cemetaries. Not only that, it shows appallingly little respect for the deceased in cemetaries, and is incredibly tacky, to do it.

 

[gunsil]

It had /better be 'nay', because all graves are protected by law, as to unauthorized digging in cemetaries. Not only that, it shows appallingly little respect for the deceased in cemetaries, and is incredibly tacky, to do it.

Where do you get your incorrect information?? There are NO laws that protect all graves. This thread isn't about digging up graves anyways, just digging in the top eight or so inches of soil. The main park in Denver, CO is built on top of an old cemetery and many other places are built over cemeteries. All older cities in the US have been built over cemeteries as they expand and need to erect more buildings. I have seen two cemeteries in my county totally bulldozed for housing developments, bones all over the place. You need to read some of the previous posts, many cemeteries are privately owned and the owners can and sometimes do give permission to hunt there. Cemeteries on church grounds can be hunted with the pastor's permission, it has been done many times in many places. If it didn't bother the pastor why should it bother his flock? It usually doesn't. If you think it disrespects the dead that is your opinion and you are certainly entitled to it but you cannot foist your beliefs on others. If you don't like it, don't do it, but there will still be plenty of folks who hunt those old abandoned cemeteries and nobody ever knows they were there. In the early days of metal detecting magazines and books said the three best places to hunt for dropped coins were schools, churches, and cemeteries, and many people hunted those spots with permission. It is only since the advent of the internet that people began saying they were off limits, and that is only because of their personal beliefs, not because there are laws against it.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

You may have detected in an old cemetery and not even have known it... I know I have. There was an old school where I grew up, the original building was built in the 1880's but had been replaced in the 1920's. My cousin went to that school and back in the 80's before it was torn down to make way for a supermarket we detected the place hard. I planned to go back after the building came down to see what I could find once the paved areas were taken up, and see if there were privy's from the original building....

I never got to though, turns out that whole area had been a cemetery before the school was originally built, and the graves "moved" in the 1870's. It seems though that all that was moved were the headstones and maybe a few of the wealthier families ancestors. As soon as they started digging there they started finding bones, called in archeologists from the local college, and I never got a chance to go back after they removed them all. After that I found out that a couple of other old schools in the town (which I had also detected) had been built over graveyards, as well as one small neighborhood on the edge of town.

So check your old maps, sometimes what was there before the building or park you're detecting around might surprise you

 

[fistfulladirt]

Dug a gold necklace in a cemetery a few years back. Received an honorable mention.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa...otten-zion-cemetery-now-an-apartment-complex/

 

[xr7ator]

Cheesman Park and some of the surrounding neighborhood as well as the Botanic Gardens is built on an old cemetery.

As long as I don't dig up a finger with a ring on it, I'm fine.

I did a small old abandon cemetery out in the woods back in the 1980's. Found a wheat penny and that was it.

 

[Jason in Enid]

https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa...otten-zion-cemetery-now-an-apartment-complex/

Happens all the time. A lot of cemeteries just had the headstones removed. Many had unmarked graves. Its widely accepted in my own town that there are bodies in a local park and under houses built beside it.

Many of our favorite reservoirs we like to boat and fish and swim in have full cemeteries under the water.

Many current homes and cities are built over ancient cemeteries.

 

[Muddyhandz]

"Phase 5 of the development is right here..... "What about the cemetery? Oh, we'll move it 5 minutes away......"

 

[nomad 11]

are there any other ancient pharoah"s we should consult on this matter ?