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A friend of mine owns property in southwest missouri. On his property there are a number of springs one in particular constantly flows water. About a year ago, he had this idea of putting a garden pool below the spring in order to catch the water. He wanted to do this because he does not have running water on the property. In the process of trying to clear the opening of the spring we came across a old board in the mud that looked like nail holes on one end. It was about 3 feet long and the one end was completely worn down. I'm going off of memory so I could be wrong on the size. But it was a board and it did have what looked to be nail holes. We both found it to be very odd to find something like that, thinking we found some kind of old mine we started digging faster. But soon gave up and finished what we originally planned on doing.
About a couple of months later, I brought my metal detector to his property. I scanned the area around the spring and didn't find a thing, I did however find a very small nail maybe about 4 inches in the ground, reminded be of a saddle nail about 20 yards in front of the spring near the bottom of a small bluff.
I was down there again about a month ago, I brought my new metal detector with me this time, a Ace 250. I re-scanned around the spring and didn't find anything. I then decided to scan the area on the bluff above the spring, again I did not find anything with the metal detector. However, I did come across a pile of stones almost directly in line with the spring. This bluff runs all along the side of the hill. It clearly looked like someone had stacked these stones and when you look down you are looking directly at the spring.
The stacking of stones really has me thinking twice about this spring. I wouldn't consider myself a treasure hunter, however finding a board, what I think is a saddle nail and now what I believe to be a marker in the middle of the woods, I'm really thinking about taking sometime and investigating this a bit further. Do any of you experts have any advice? There is no way we can get any sort of heavy digging equipment to the spring without building a road first to the spring. I was thinking about spending a weekend of just digging and seeing if I find anything else. Since water is flowing, does that mean if there is a cave under the mud it is most likely filled with water?
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Attached are pictures I have of the spring from when you put in the garden pool, one is a close up of the water flowing out. Also attached is a interesting rock we found near the spring. I will try and get a picture of the board if he still has it and the saddle pin, I will defiantly get a picture of the stacked stones and it's general location in relation to the spring the next time I am down.
Thanks, John
About a couple of months later, I brought my metal detector to his property. I scanned the area around the spring and didn't find a thing, I did however find a very small nail maybe about 4 inches in the ground, reminded be of a saddle nail about 20 yards in front of the spring near the bottom of a small bluff.
I was down there again about a month ago, I brought my new metal detector with me this time, a Ace 250. I re-scanned around the spring and didn't find anything. I then decided to scan the area on the bluff above the spring, again I did not find anything with the metal detector. However, I did come across a pile of stones almost directly in line with the spring. This bluff runs all along the side of the hill. It clearly looked like someone had stacked these stones and when you look down you are looking directly at the spring.
The stacking of stones really has me thinking twice about this spring. I wouldn't consider myself a treasure hunter, however finding a board, what I think is a saddle nail and now what I believe to be a marker in the middle of the woods, I'm really thinking about taking sometime and investigating this a bit further. Do any of you experts have any advice? There is no way we can get any sort of heavy digging equipment to the spring without building a road first to the spring. I was thinking about spending a weekend of just digging and seeing if I find anything else. Since water is flowing, does that mean if there is a cave under the mud it is most likely filled with water?
If this is in the wrong forum, please move.
Attached are pictures I have of the spring from when you put in the garden pool, one is a close up of the water flowing out. Also attached is a interesting rock we found near the spring. I will try and get a picture of the board if he still has it and the saddle pin, I will defiantly get a picture of the stacked stones and it's general location in relation to the spring the next time I am down.
Thanks, John