Cachefinder
Sr. Member
Hello all,
Just wanted to share my story of few week-ends ago.
My grandparents moved to Arizona about 25years ago.(I was already living here with my family)
They bought an older home with a little over an acre of land.
A few years ago my grandfather while in his orchard, found 7 old matchbox cars, wrapped in
"military grade plastic"-his words not mine-(He was a gunner Air Force)
This was buried about 5-8 inches down under a orange tree.
He showed us all and we thought it was neat. He said it was probably some kids that lived here
in the past so we never thought anything of it.
Well I thought about it all the time. Why would kids wrap the cars to bury them? There had to
be more things buried out there.
Bringing things to present day-- I now have a detector(MD) and ask them if I can go to town on
their property. Of course they say "yes"
I spent about 2-3 weeks looking at old maps and images of their property and noticed the wood
shed that is an area right in-front of the orchard gate, was built in the early 50's.
My gradfather uses this shed for a few fruit pickers and shears and thats about it.
The shed is about 5 ft long - 7 ft high and 4 ft wide. It has one shelf built in about 2 1/2 ft up
that wraps the whole inside. There is no floor to the structure it is just ground.
This shed is were I had to look--I took out his tools and used my detector and it starting ringing
like a bell "OK that was easy" is what I am thinking as I set my detector down and start digging
up the floor of the shed....WRONG. The dirt is like digging into stone and once I did get down
to about 2 inches...what, there was a layer of cement. I exposed all of the cement and it was a
little slab maybe 2x1 ft and not done very well. I took a small hand axe and chipped the corner
of the slab and I broke off fairly easily. I spent the rest of the day chipping away till it was all
gone--took me 4 hrs to this point.
Lets just say the rest was fun.....
About 3-4 inches under the slab was a metal container(5x3 inches) wrapped in the same
"military type plastic" that my Grandfather had found the cars in. Unwrapped the plastic and
opened the container and there was a lot of silver looking at me!
There are 330 merc dimes all dated between 1930-1945 (only 1 1931s)
There were 2 1908 Barber's in there.
And the strangest part of all is that near the bottom of the container there was 1 Indian Head
cent and the date is 1909s.
Well this was the best day of findings for me.... ever!
I will be going over their whole yard (in time) but for the past weeks it has been raining so time
will tell I hope this was just someones dime stash---now to find the rest!
Take Care,
Cachefinder-
Just wanted to share my story of few week-ends ago.
My grandparents moved to Arizona about 25years ago.(I was already living here with my family)
They bought an older home with a little over an acre of land.
A few years ago my grandfather while in his orchard, found 7 old matchbox cars, wrapped in
"military grade plastic"-his words not mine-(He was a gunner Air Force)
This was buried about 5-8 inches down under a orange tree.
He showed us all and we thought it was neat. He said it was probably some kids that lived here
in the past so we never thought anything of it.
Well I thought about it all the time. Why would kids wrap the cars to bury them? There had to
be more things buried out there.
Bringing things to present day-- I now have a detector(MD) and ask them if I can go to town on
their property. Of course they say "yes"
I spent about 2-3 weeks looking at old maps and images of their property and noticed the wood
shed that is an area right in-front of the orchard gate, was built in the early 50's.
My gradfather uses this shed for a few fruit pickers and shears and thats about it.
The shed is about 5 ft long - 7 ft high and 4 ft wide. It has one shelf built in about 2 1/2 ft up
that wraps the whole inside. There is no floor to the structure it is just ground.
This shed is were I had to look--I took out his tools and used my detector and it starting ringing
like a bell "OK that was easy" is what I am thinking as I set my detector down and start digging
up the floor of the shed....WRONG. The dirt is like digging into stone and once I did get down
to about 2 inches...what, there was a layer of cement. I exposed all of the cement and it was a
little slab maybe 2x1 ft and not done very well. I took a small hand axe and chipped the corner
of the slab and I broke off fairly easily. I spent the rest of the day chipping away till it was all
gone--took me 4 hrs to this point.
Lets just say the rest was fun.....
About 3-4 inches under the slab was a metal container(5x3 inches) wrapped in the same
"military type plastic" that my Grandfather had found the cars in. Unwrapped the plastic and
opened the container and there was a lot of silver looking at me!
There are 330 merc dimes all dated between 1930-1945 (only 1 1931s)
There were 2 1908 Barber's in there.
And the strangest part of all is that near the bottom of the container there was 1 Indian Head
cent and the date is 1909s.
Well this was the best day of findings for me.... ever!
I will be going over their whole yard (in time) but for the past weeks it has been raining so time
will tell I hope this was just someones dime stash---now to find the rest!
Take Care,
Cachefinder-
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