Tree Cave With Pocket Spill

[GopherDaGold]

Ok, so I'm cheating. This wasn't technically 'today' but I had a teen daughter sleepover event that kept me from posting these yesterday.
I got out to one of my favorite creeks as the water had gone down considerably. Didn't find anything to dance about so I started detecting around this huge tree that had once stood mighty before the flood of '93 and subsequent windstorms split her in two.
As you can see, there is a huge hollow in the base of this old tree. Several people can fit inside with room to spare. It looks a bit like the one our gun-toting Discovery Channel 'treasure hunters' found the KGC gold bar in so naturally I swung my detector inside the hollow. No signal! I figured that it must be because I wasn't wearing a boonie hat and packin' a pistol.
I swung around the entire base of the tree and the section that had split off and was laying on the ground. Got several nice hits in one spot so I started digging. About 4" down I started seeing coins. I was pretty stoked even though they were all clad. One quarter, three dimes and two nickels.
That tree holler is incredible ain't it? I want to go back just to shoot some pics before it's lost for good.

 

[homer007]

THAT MAKES ME THINK BACK WHEN I WAS A KID AND FINDING A HOLE IN A TREE THAT SIZE AND PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK. THINK GOD NO SNAKES

 

[KOOTNEY KID]

Sweet tree,I could just imagine how kids would think it a great hideout.I hope they didnt chase off old billboe baggins. .Thanks for the look.....K.KID.....

 

[Toby1858]

That's one big tree!

 

[GopherDaGold]

That's one big tree!

That's only the half that's still standing!

 

[mlayers]

I remember when I was a kid and at the park there was a statue and there was a tunnel under we would play in there. As a kid we would go anywhere and hide.....Matt

 

[mamabear]

nice find. I can't leave holey trees alone either. I have to check the inside, as well as the out. & I try to find the oldest looking tree wherever I am hunting & swing all around it. besides they usually make for great pix. I wasn't here during the 93 flood, but my mom lives in Festus, & sent me the pix. that was one heck of a flood!

 

[hikeinmts]

Some of the sites we hunt here in S. Korea have an old tree, or a group of trees, as a part of the site. And, sometimes, if we are really lucky, the old tree is still standing. Always a kick, to see if 3 of us can touch hands around the tree......sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Great looking area. Keep pounding it. Must be more there.

 

[Golden1]

sweet