neo
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- Jul 15, 2013
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I read somewhere online you can't dig up anything over 100 years old is this true?
there in lies the rub! The antiquities Act in its broadly interpreted language has seemingly empowered archeologists to determine what is an Archeologist site and what they deem will further the knowledge of the past!Kind of hard to say you can,t dig it up unless you know what it is already but on non private land and on state or federal you want to search laws for each ,but not by asking the authorities in my opinion.
American Antiquities Act of 1906 (16USC431-433)
Exactly... It's the good old boys (our congressmen) most all of them since Abraham Lincoln who have been to college that reward their alumnus's with jobs!Yes, They can make up anything they want! Until someone challenges them or discredits their theory, everyone takes it as true!
I have a problem with that antiquities act. If your metal detecting coins and other stuff in the year 2064 then all clad coins from 1964 and on up will be illegal to dig. Ha ha ha. Hmmm. But I'll be long since dead anyways. heh heh
if I buy a 200 year old antique and loose it, am I breaking a law to find it? The mint date of a coin is not the date it was lost either... Makes it kind of hard too prove otherwise! Just claim your buddy buried it for you to find...then you're going by the "100 yr" rule. Others have claimed it's "50 yrs".
BUT AGAIN: When was the last time you ever had an archaeologist follow you around with a calculator, doing the math on the age of each coin you found ?
And as for me? Well .... my math never was too good anyways, durnit .