Mona Lisa
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- Jan 13, 2005
- 5,112
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- Detector(s) used
- White's DFX & a Sunray probe
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
My house is an 1870's farmhouse that was surrounded by hundreds of acres of pasture. In the 1950s and 1960s, the farmer that owned my house started selling off building lots. My parents bought one of those lots and built the house that I grew up in. It is less than a quarter of a mile from my farm.
I took my detector down to my parents' house on Sunday to show them how it worked. I was never very interested in detecting their land cuz around their house it has been bulldozed and landscaped. The back yard is untouched, but I thought " what am I going to find in an old pasture?". Well....we were walking up to an old oak tree that we used to play in and I was running my MD. I got this signal bouncing between pull tab and copper. When I dug it up, I found this skeleton key. It's made of brass (I guess) and it has a twist to it like somebody forced it while using it.
The funny thing is when I took it home, it worked on all our doors. I thought it was a neat discovery. I do realize that keys like that were pretty generic...they could open a lot of things...but I like the idea of the farmer dropping it in the pasture back in the 1800's.
Now I'm going to search my parent's back yard!
I took my detector down to my parents' house on Sunday to show them how it worked. I was never very interested in detecting their land cuz around their house it has been bulldozed and landscaped. The back yard is untouched, but I thought " what am I going to find in an old pasture?". Well....we were walking up to an old oak tree that we used to play in and I was running my MD. I got this signal bouncing between pull tab and copper. When I dug it up, I found this skeleton key. It's made of brass (I guess) and it has a twist to it like somebody forced it while using it.
The funny thing is when I took it home, it worked on all our doors. I thought it was a neat discovery. I do realize that keys like that were pretty generic...they could open a lot of things...but I like the idea of the farmer dropping it in the pasture back in the 1800's.
Now I'm going to search my parent's back yard!
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