A "dangerous" find!
This find was not made with a detector but rather while detecting.
In the fall we were hunting an old home site in a recently cut corn field. A tractor with a s*&t spreader entered the field and drove across the front to another field. A few minutes later my partner called to me to “look at this”. The tractor had opened up a well. It was less then a foot down and covered with flat rocks. We all know to look out for wells when searching cellar holes but how many think about it in a field that has been plowed for 100 years? The tractor wheel did not go over the top of it but beside it.
We shined a light down and could not see bottom. A rock bounced off the walls several times. There was no splash. Stopped at the barn and alerted the owner’s son to it. They had no knowledge of it.
Two weeks later I saw the farmer at a gas station and ask him about the well. He has plowed this field for 50 years as well as his father before him. Never knew it was there. They caved it in and covered it. It was 43 ft. deep! The odd thing is that it was so shallow and it was not where you would expect a well. It was on a high knoll. Also it was by the driveway to the field where tractors have been driving over it constantly year after year.
A second note is that another farmer told us that two years ago a tire dropped into a well. Got the tractor stuck. He owned and has been plowing the property for 40 years. Bottom line is that every house had a well. Most have probably been filled over the years but there are obviously some that remain.
Even in a plowed field there could be a danger. With this one being so shallow it is not out of the realm of possibility that one of us could have collapsed into it while digging a deep target over it. We had dug many targets in its vicinity. That would not have been a nice day of hunting!
This find was not made with a detector but rather while detecting.
In the fall we were hunting an old home site in a recently cut corn field. A tractor with a s*&t spreader entered the field and drove across the front to another field. A few minutes later my partner called to me to “look at this”. The tractor had opened up a well. It was less then a foot down and covered with flat rocks. We all know to look out for wells when searching cellar holes but how many think about it in a field that has been plowed for 100 years? The tractor wheel did not go over the top of it but beside it.
We shined a light down and could not see bottom. A rock bounced off the walls several times. There was no splash. Stopped at the barn and alerted the owner’s son to it. They had no knowledge of it.
Two weeks later I saw the farmer at a gas station and ask him about the well. He has plowed this field for 50 years as well as his father before him. Never knew it was there. They caved it in and covered it. It was 43 ft. deep! The odd thing is that it was so shallow and it was not where you would expect a well. It was on a high knoll. Also it was by the driveway to the field where tractors have been driving over it constantly year after year.
A second note is that another farmer told us that two years ago a tire dropped into a well. Got the tractor stuck. He owned and has been plowing the property for 40 years. Bottom line is that every house had a well. Most have probably been filled over the years but there are obviously some that remain.
Even in a plowed field there could be a danger. With this one being so shallow it is not out of the realm of possibility that one of us could have collapsed into it while digging a deep target over it. We had dug many targets in its vicinity. That would not have been a nice day of hunting!
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I hope no one was down there before it was filled in. 
