Has Anyone Every Found Any Treasure At The Bottom Of An Old Well?

[detectit]

I don't suggest ever going down in one. The wells around here are normally 30 foot deep and have water in them.
If you were to go down and not be able to get back up, your dead. I highly doubt anything would be in a well at all, since nobody can safely go in and out of one.

Here is a good idea. Get a powerful magnet, like 75lb pull thrust and down it on a rope down there. It will pick up anything that is down there for you.

Never say never, when it comes to items/valuables/etc., being, misplaced, discarded, or lost. Someone may have felt rejected, stressed, mentally unstable, or whatever, then threw a gorgeous wedding ring down there. There could possibly, and even could be probably, hold more than one nice find. Depends so many factors. No one KNOWS, unless they were there at that time. NEVER SECOND GUESS!! Many treasures have been ignored, and passed around, due this LINE OF GUESS THINKING. Sometimes efforts will cost to get the job done, but life is a risk in itself. Try then try again. This is what seperates the true Adventurer's.BUT...always safety first, concerning anything.

 

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[boogeyman]

I once found a young boy and a collie at the bottom of a well...

What's that Lassie? He's in the well? How deeps the well Lassie? 8 feet? Lassie go fetch the ladder!

 

[Texas Gld]

I once found a young boy and a collie at the bottom of a well...

What's that Lassie? He's in the well? How deeps the well Lassie? 8 feet? Lassie go fetch the ladder!

Q. 3-wells? 8ft-deep-(heck of a low water table) 1880's-What was the name of that nice freezer the? You know the one that used so little elec. Kept the potatoes/fruits and veggies so "well".
Check them out Amigo, your eather in the adventure or out! Wooden-ladder-bld-one 2x4's are cheap.
Man top-side, a must!-Rope and or harness from you to the top-good idea. Some radio-shack, "talkies
would help you tell your pardner, pull-up, send down. AA-powered head-light/hard-hat/gloves/5-gal-bucket
w/rope to the top/sml-shovel/composite garden-trowel (Use-it-first)-homemade -1/4"hardware sifter would be handy-M/D-1/4' rope to the top & secured to the arm rest.Man top-side should have cell-phone if @ALL-possible. Tell someone where you are going(Not necessarly for what) and approx. what time you will return -or call by cell-phone> (borrow a painters extension =pole-or buy a 10ft-1x2 and feel out the bottom
First, befor gathering everything for the plunge) Q. only - one : INDIANA-Ya in or out. GOOD-Luck-Pal

 

[Wildcat]

Don't ever go down a well unless you know what you are doing. Have a buddy there watching you. If you get in trouble, under no circumstances should your buddy go down there to get you out. You need a retrieval team for that job.

The Cat

 

[colorado14ers]

never looked

 

[diggummup]

I not sure if I would do it alone, but i will tell you that when i was a kid growing up it was good luck to toss a silver coin and make a wish, it had to be silver. PS that's when i lived in England UK

silver is a purifier...it was common practice before refrigeration to drop silver into milk to keep it fresh...also to sweeten water.

Don't ever go down a well unless you know what you are doing. Have a buddy there watching you. If you get in trouble, under no circumstances should your buddy go down there to get you out. You need a retrieval team for that job.

The Cat

never looked

This thread was started over a year and a half ago. Just figured i'd mention that.

 

[Goodyguy]

I not sure if I would do it alone, but i will tell you that when i was a kid growing up it was good luck to toss a silver coin and make a wish, it had to be silver. PS that's when i lived in England UK

silver is a purifier...it was common practice before refrigeration to drop silver into milk to keep it fresh...also to sweeten water.

Don't ever go down a well unless you know what you are doing. Have a buddy there watching you. If you get in trouble, under no circumstances should your buddy go down there to get you out. You need a retrieval team for that job.

The Cat

never looked

This thread was started over a year and a half ago. Just figured i'd mention that.

I reckon MilitariaCollector is ok since his last post was only 2 days ago.

GG~

 

[m bryan]

You guys are getting my wheels to turning! This one goes way back...

 

[diggummup]

You guys are getting my wheels to turning! This one goes way back...

Now that looks like a dangerous well to be climbing into. I'd have to remove that dome top before even thinking about attempting that one.

 

[Lowbatts]

Speaking of, just finished finding one old cistern in the woods hereabouts, still has water in it. Around here most seem 10-15 feet deep and brick-lined. Oldest one nearby I've found is maybe 6 feet deep lined with stones and definitely needs digging out. Gotta be lots of muck on what appears to be that dry bottom.

Well since it's too hot and muggy to hunt topside, might get started on this one over the weekend.

Lots of good ideas from you folks on how to's. Don't forget the big buckets and shovels tied up so your partners can pull the loads up and start the sifting.

 

[BttleDiggerDrew]

I have a map of the area that dates to 1875, and I believe the foundation of this house is one that is shown on the map. I found numerous bottles at the site (I believe from the 1920's - 1940's), and also dug up an intact pre-WWII Colonial Porcelein Figurine made in Japan. It started to snow heavily just when I got there, and I nearly walked right in one of the wells. I havent been back there yet as the ground hasnt thawed. The wells are a little narrow, so this will be a challenge. Maybe I can borrow that rope rig from Mission Impossible and lower myself down.

OOO...I love them bottles..lol...I guess I am the only bottle hound here...Looks like all your bottles have a crown top..Few questions..Is there any embossing or wording on those bottles? on the base, is there any trademarks or Pontil marks..? Some of those bottles may predate 1920's...

 

[Mr.T]

I once found a young boy and a collie at the bottom of a well...

Brilliant!

 

[Iron Buzz]

This thread was started over a year and a half ago. Just figured i'd mention that.

And 12 years later, I am reading it, looking for information about how to retrieve stuff from the bottom of an old hand dug well, so there's that...

 

[brainpan]

Crawled through more than a few old wells and cisterns around here. Never had any problems with water, did get my head run over by some runaway critters in a few.

 

[CASPER-2]

I can tell 2 old well stories
like in the late 70's couple of guys got permission to hit an 1800s house that had a well
in the front yard - think it was a stage coach stop
after hitting the property they decided to check out the well - the well had very little water in it
guy tied rope around self and friend lowered him in ...long story - short
it was a wishing well and was loaded with all kinds of coins from 1800s and early 1900s

story 2 - i started detecting at age 12 1975 - by late 70s i was hunting old cellar holes in the woods
with other hunters
the first thing we would try and do is find the well and mark it so none of us would fall in
thru the grape vine we heard that a TH'er was lost and his wife reported that he had not come home
He told no one where he was going - eventually his truck was found and a search was started out from there
it was a colonial road and out in the middle of no where - he wasnt found
few yrs later some other hunters were out in the woods detecting and searching for unhunted holes
they came upon a well and when they looked down they discovered a skeleton - it was the lost Th'er

 

[brainpan]

The wells are a little narrow, so this will be a challenge. Maybe I can borrow that rope rig from Mission Impossible and lower myself down. aim training

 

[Iron Buzz]

The wells are a little narrow, so this will be a challenge. Maybe I can borrow that rope rig from Mission Impossible and lower myself down. aim training

In the case that I'm looking at, the well is outside of an 1850s home that is about to be torn down for a housing development. The developer is also interested in what is in the well, and if he holds true to his word, he is going to try to have the well excavated and the dirt from the bottom dumped somewhere that I can detect it. I'm a bit skeptical that he will want to pay the dozer or shovel operator what they will want to do that (the well looks to be 30 feet deep) but we can hope!

 

[Tnmountains]

When I was a little kid I would climb down in them and dig up old bottles. My parents found out how I was getting them and stopped me... But it started my bottle collection. I know where 5 wells are now and really should get back in them.

 

[Cobradude22]

My experience

The farm where I live now, the lady who grew up here, she was in her 80s or 90s when she told my dad this. Anyway the story goes that they had a cousin who got mad at the family and threw a box full of arrowheads and gold eagles down the well on the property. No one ever knew where this well was located. ? she didn?t tell us? There was a windmill well on the property but it had a hand pump. Anyway, last year a small hole opened up in the backyard. I decided to investigate and this is what I found. There was an old house here before ours. And I?m guessing this is the well they were talking about. I?ve dug it a little, pulled 2 medicine bottles. I originally thought it was a privy hole, but now I believe it was indeed a well. If only I could figure out a way to safely dig it. I tried a few months back and it started to fill with water. I?m thinking about going deeper during a drought. It?s flat stone lined. Probably 3 feet across. Maybe 4. If I knew for a fact there were allot of gold coins down there, I would definitely pay to have it dug out lol. That?s my well experience.

 

[Gare]

There is all kinds of gas's that can linger at the bottom of wells and such. BE CAREFUL I DO NOT WANT to READ ABOUT ANYONE'S ACCIDENT