Heart shaped pendant

[Bruce R]

I was detecting at the flight 624 crash site this morning, dug up the usual aluminum aircraft pieces. About an hour into the hunt up popped this pendant, I thought it was onyx but when I got it home and washed it and held it up to a light, I can see that it’s red, it’s just blackened by the fire, I guess. I’m thinking that it’s glass since the setting was plated, you can see the plating is nearly all gone due to years under the acidic coal dirt, and the “stone” has lots of scratches.

 

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[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Wildcat1750]

Cool find...and to think it may have belonged to a passenger on that flight.
Even the scraps of aircraft metal are part of a bigger story.
You have a very interesting site to hunt there!!!

 

[lillian84]

It looks very good.

 

[Hogtown Hunter]

I mean no disrespect but hunting there seems a little morbid. Like Wildcat said that pendant was probably being worn by a passenger at the time they lost their life. Some places, like cemeteries, are better left to the dead.

 

[Bruce R]

I’m more of a realist, the site is NOT a cemetery, in any way shape or form. What I’m doing is no different than someone grubbing around a battlefield and that includes the arkeys with their PHD’s, lotsa people died at Gettysburg so with your line of thinking, it never should have been picked over and all those artifacts in museums and collections should be taken back there and plowed back into the ground. My site has been picked over quite a bit in the last 70 years, 43 people died there and I’m still finding things that others have missed, whether they were wearing it or it was in the luggage I don’t know. I’ve also found pieces of THEM too, a piece of rib, a finger bone, teeth, a kneecap, I have a special spot on the site where I bury those pieces, it’s the base of a pink dogwood tree, how it came to be out there I have no idea.

 

[Erik in NJ]

Very sad how that flight went down unnecessarily.

Does anyone here know what the legal requirements are if you are really unearthing human remains at that crash site?

 

[Bruce R]

You would be hard pressed to find anyone to turn it in to, just about everyone would tell you to take it somewhere else. My local magistrate (old friend) told me to re-bury the stuff if I didn’t want it, he said no official would want to waste their time dealing with it.