cemeteries

[d2]

Looking around one and looking in it are different things altogether. Like I said earlier I wouldn't look in one but the parking lot and around it as far as I am concerned would be OK. Now I live in a very rural part of Arkansas and common sense goes along way with me and the people I encounter. No way anyone would think I was digging up bodies but I wouldn't give them the opportunity to even think I was. Plus I am a good guy and ain't prone to jumping out of the traces over little things or worry what people think...d2

 

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[rotty23]

Why would you even ask that question? You should be ashamed of yourself!

 

[gunsil]

Where I live there are many old churches dating back to the early 1700s. I have had the pleasure of hunting a lot of these churches with the pastors' permission. There are graves on a lot of these church grounds and the pastors told me I could hunt around the graves and I have done so with no remorse since I had permission from those in charge of these grounds. It is not a sin and I will not burn in hell. When I was in fourth grade they put in a housing development near where I live and they literally bulldozed a cemetery with over a hundred graves in it an it was perfectly legal under New York state statutes. Kids came to class with oddities found there for show and tell. Many older cemeteries are built over and have been for years. This may alienate some folks but what about all the Native American and early settler graves dug up in the name of archaeology and science? MDers are not desecrating anything, or digging up graves like the archies do. If a cemetery is abandoned in the woods I see no harm in looking for lost items, there are no decendants left to care, and nobody sees. This thread will probably be locked soon as they all do, perhaps this post deleted.

 

[villagenut]

Well said Gunsil, but a good rule of thumb is that not all things lawful may be advantageous.

 

[USERNAME IS VALID]

I would love to, but it's just seems so wrong and I'm not about to ruin detecting for the rest because there's already too many laws against us.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

What would you do if you found a wedding ring or a silver rosary at the base of a headstone? Many people bury things at a loved one's grave. Those items weren't lost, they were placed there for a reason. Taking them would be lower than low.

 

[RGINN]

Yes I have outright detected in the graveyard. My brother and sister who died at birth were buried in a family plot with those metal funeral home markers as we couldn't afford regular headstones. That worked just fine until the cemetery got a caretaker and he just mowed right over them. Kinda doubtful as to the exact location then, but I detected out the posts of the original markers and put flat markers there so everybody who wants to remember them can. Off to the side of this family plot is an unmarked small grave from when the country was settled there in Washita County OK. Grandpa thought it was a small child that every body forgot and he always decorated it. I got to thinkin I'm the last in this generation that can walk right to the location, so I walked down the road, found some aluminum beer cans and mashed them flat and buried them at the foot and head of the grave. Swing the detector and you can find the grave. All I could do, and I suppose some day it will all be plowed up and they will put a wind farm up there, haha!

 

[scott9050]

I wont do that. I consider disrespectful and you will call attention to yourself and metal detecting. Thats all we need. The wrong person seeing us detecting a cemetery and shut it down for everyone everywhere. I personally would recommend against it.

I see no difference between that and this that happened where I currently live:

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[Honest Samuel]

Do not dig up dead bodies for treasures or for any reasons.

 

[Deft Tones]

What would you do if you found a wedding ring or a silver rosary at the base of a headstone? Many people bury things at a loved one's grave. Those items weren't lost, they were placed there for a reason. Taking them would be lower than low.

Take it. Abandoned property IMO.

I used to mow cemetaries with my grandpa. Sooner or later everything not anchored to the earth is removed - no matter who or why it was left there. That's just a fact of cemetary care experience.

Good question.

 

[DirtDiggerDaveinMD]

I personally wouldn't detect a cemetery. It is not worth the hassle for a few items that could be found. Besides, what would the archies do if they had competition robbing graves?

 

[Kansas_Jayhawk]

Wow ... I thought this thread was about to die ... but it has come back to life.

 

[Honest Samuel]

If when I died, and the cemetery is abandoned and I been dead for over 200 years. No problems if people search only for single coins and jewels. Good hunting and good luck.

 

[AlienLifeForm]

If when I died, and the cemetery is abandoned and I been dead for over 200 years. No problems if people search only for single coins and jewels. Good hunting and good luck.

If you've been dead 200 years, I would say there isn't much you could do about it anyway.

 

[Xraywolf]

Never ceases to amaze me when this topic comes up, it is so obviously wrong that anyone suggesting otherwise comes across as the greedy ghouls that they are.

I'd advise if you want to do it [and haven't by any means red through this thread to find out who wants to do what] ,, If anyone wants to do it, use some sense and keep it to yourself and just go ahead and do it if you really must, don't go looking for any confirmations of some nagging doubt you may have.
I could make a nice fortune tomorrow by conking someone on the head and taking his wallet, only my common sense and decency prevents me from doing so.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Take it. Abandoned property IMO

Not abandoned, left there for a loved one.

It never ceases to amaze me how some people can justify anything immoral, unethical or illegal they do in this world...

 

[Honest Samuel]

Take it. Abandoned property IMO.

I used to mow cemetaries with my grandpa. Sooner or later everything not anchored to the earth is removed - no matter who or why it was left there. That's just a fact of cemetary care experience.

Good question.

May God bless grandpa and that nobody dig up his grave.

 

[Truth]

We have old cemeteries but no way.


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[junkhunt]

Do not dig up dead bodies for treasures or for any reasons.

Is your post a joke? Who has said dig up dead bodies? No body.

 

[Honest Samuel]

No joke. God bless Grandpa.