Need your help!!

[RelicRick]

Hey everybody...I sure could use your advice! I just received permission to detect a dirt cellar in a historic basement where slaves were chained to the walls. Thus far, I've only detected old cellar holes with no house above. Does anybody here have any experience they could share and any pointers that might help? As always thanx a million....I'm quite anxious to get at it!

Rick (Goaldigger @ the Goalrush)

 

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[teverly]

dig it all!!

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I agree...dig every beep and search the walls for items hidden in crevices...including paper...so eyeballing is a must.....Good luck and hope you take pics of the cellar

 

[EasyMoney]

I've been in a couple of castle dungeons in Germany and it really stunk, as in something d-e-a-d.

Bring some noseplugs and a barf bag.

 

[Sandman]

I agree...dig every beep and search the walls for items hidden in crevices...including paper...so eyeballing is a must.....Good luck and hope you take pics of the cellar

Gypsy's right. Also take a sniper coil with you. Some of these places have many targets and the sniper will help you pinpoint them separately. Use all metal and forget the display if you have one.

good luck.

 

[deepskyal]

I'd probably bring one of those flashlights you can wear on your head. Reason being...if the cellar roof is low...you may get interference from the low a/c lines with the lights on...especially if they're flouresent.
Maybe a broom to wisp away cobwebs....havent seen many basements without those.
Al

 

[RelicRick]

Thanks everybody...great advice! I will bring a camera and take photos if the homeowner lets me. BTW...I met with the curator of a local museum yesterday and he confirmed that several of the items I've recently found in an abandoned village date back to the Revolution...very cool!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

My advise is... How much money do you think the slaves had? They were hardly kept alive to work, food water and that's it. It wasn't till the near end of slavery they started getting wages. You want to look in area's where the slave owners would bury their caches and I don't think it was in with their slaves.

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[teverly]

well maybe they lost a tag or 2 in there.Even finding a set of chains would be worth it....

 

[RelicRick]

My advise is... How much money do you think the slaves had? They were hardly kept alive to work, food water and that's it. It wasn't till the near end of slavery they started getting wages. You want to look in area's where the slave owners would bury their caches and I don't think it was in with their slaves.

Keep @ it and HH!!


This house is well over 200 years old. While slaves were kept there, I still have over 150 years of homeowners w/o slaves I'm dealing with. I never mentioned a cache (although that would be nice). I was asking if anyone had advice for this type of search because I haven't done one before...nothing more, nothing less. Thanx to those that offered suggestions!

 

[pgill]

Not an expert in this field at all, but use all your natural senses as well as the mechanical instruments that you have..... Yours eyes are still one of the best detectors you have.

All the best and God bless
Peter

 

[cosmic]

Check out all the floor joist and sills.. Try running a thin blade putty knife on top of the joists.. Look for any crack or crevice that something can be hidden..

 

[uriykir]

NICE!!