Under big iron, small 9 piece Cache of silver but not in a form Id expect to find

[inspectorgadget]

Under big iron, small 9 piece Cache of silver but not in a form I'd expect to find

Well I dug out this large 14" across rusted old barrel/bucket lid & a huge 1" thick 2' long steel cable that were 4" to 5" deep & then it got dark. Went back yesterday morning & hit the same spot & what do ya know 4" down I found my first small silver cache.. Not coins, not bars/ingots or rounds, not store bought jewelry, not candle sticks nor decore, not chains nor silverware but instead 9 sterling silver spoon rings (same hole) within a 3" circle. They are weighing in at 105.7 grams total, all are marked 925. What a strange cache find as it's sort of jewelry & sort of silverware, a hybrid so to speak. Cool hand made spoon rings cache, who would have thunk it? While digging I did scrape one up a little as you can see in the pix but no others got touched by my trawl! Last pic is the crap that was hiding this find (spoon just for scale) & this is the second time at this spot where once big iron was removed it has yielded finds it was hiding.

 

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[ticm]

Wow never saw a find just like that before. Hard to beat that.

 

[stewielouie]

Great looking spoon rings. Hard to beat a spoon ring cache, one of a kind!

 

[Erik in NJ]

Now that's a cool find!! I don't think I would have bothered to dig out that big lid! What was under the other big iron?

 

[BuckleBoy]

All the more important to dig the big iron. Where there is one cache like that on a property, there is more likely to be more. People who cache items seldom just hide one cache.

Cheers!


-Buck

 

[steelheadwill]

All the more important to dig the big iron. Where there is one cache like that on a property, there is more likely to be more. People who cache items seldom just hide one cache.

Cheers!


-Buck

Super Find !! BuckleBoy has good advice

 

[jewelerguy]

wow that's crazy.

 

[Nooberz]

That is indeed an odd stash of silver. Keep searching that property, you may be surprised to find more caches.

 

[mangum]

Wow. Amazing

 

[Dixiegal]

I used to have a silver spoon ring in college. I love them.

 

[Jason in Enid]

That is a very cool find! Congrats on digging out the trash to find it. It makes me think the hider knew something about metal detectors and covered them with junk he would keep most away from.

I agree, where there is one cache there is likely to be more.

 

[jcobb]

Amazing find... Congrats

 

[stewielouie]

Just bought a spoon ring when I was in Hammondsport NY this summer on Vaca. Those ones are nice ones, ones I would buy if I ran across them in a shop.

 

[staydetuned]

That's awesome! Congrats on a totally unique cache.

 

[cudamark]

Great cache!

 

[inspectorgadget]

Now that's a cool find!! I don't think I would have bothered to dig out that big lid! What was under the other big iron?

The "iron" was a whole late 1800's or early 1900's door lock assembly that takes a skeleton key + about 30 if not more rusted nails & some other misc garbage.. Once I got the crap all out I found 4 clad quarters, 1 clad dime (a 65' darn it), 1 nickel, a very old copper punch out/slug that very much resembles a coin & a 1950 wheatie, I'm not done with this area yet either, it's between 2 big trees 15' apart in an old back yard & someone probably had a close line or hammock between these two trees is what I'm thinking.

All the more important to dig the big iron. Where there is one cache like that on a property, there is more likely to be more. People who cache items seldom just hide one cache.

Cheers!

-Buck

Well if there are other caches in this yard 12" or less deep they have to be under iron, I've got 30+ hours in this yard & the junk I have dug is beyond belief. Looks like a house & an old Cadillac exploded back there, lol. I'm up to over 350 digs in a 1/3rd of an acre spot with about 50 being "good targets", mostly misc copper + some brass & $2.04 in clad + pennies. There was a target every few inches when I started, now just getting some iron signals & obvious foil & or can slaw type hits is all I'm finding now. I wont be done at this spot till every target including iron is is gone!

That is indeed an odd stash of silver. Keep searching that property, you may be surprised to find more caches.

I'm still looking for more but I have 30+ hours in this 1/3rd of an acre yard so far but there still is hope as there is still plenty of iron & can slaw to get out.

That is a very cool find! Congrats on digging out the trash to find it. It makes me think the hider knew something about metal detectors and covered them with junk he would keep most away from.

I agree, where there is one cache there is likely to be more.

Ya I thought the same thing about someone purposely masking them from detectors with all that iron crap, then again maybe they did cover them intentionally but not for the purpose we are thinking, maybe they were thinking protection from weather or making them easier to find for themselves to recover as just a little probe rod & some probing would have revealed the location or something like that?

BTW.. the rings were all laying flat in a bunch as close together as they could get. They were not just dumped into a hole that was dug, they were placed in such a manner that someone had to have arranged them together in a small group.

 

[cntrydncr1]

wow that is an amazing cache!! congrats!

 

[LuckyThirteen08]

Nice Find!! Thanks for Sharing!!

 

[mjc_lakedweller]

That's gotta be a one of kind cache there. Great digs

 

[CRUSADER]

Once again, proves why it pays to clear it all