Re: "What is the deepest hole you ever dug while detecting, what did you find"!
Hi room: sigh, at the end of the Mexican revolution, the rebels captured a train with federal money. mostly silver 0ne Reales.
They decided that since they couldn't move it, to bury it next to a small RR bridge.
Our Informant, one of the surviving rebels, decided that after all of these years it would be ok to dig up some, so he contacted my friend. The problem was that bridge had been rebuilt and was perhaps 30 + meters from it.s original location.
Since it was only 100 meters from the major highway, he insisted in doing it at night. It was a full moon so there was no problem there.
When we arrived at the spot, I quickly checked it out for a 100 ft radius but found nothing. I told them this, but they insisted that it was down there, and so commenced digging. It was basically sand so there was no problem.
I merely sat on the side watching them dig away. They started with a 6 ft diam. hole, then as they went deeper, it grew smaller until they finally hit water at 13 ft. By this time the hole was only big enough for one man to dig a shovel full of sand then pass it up to the top to be emptied.
I was getting very bored and tired of fighting hungry mosquitoes, when I saw the glint of silver in the shovel full of sand.
To say that they were excited was putting it mildly, while I was desperately thinking of excuses .
The sand was really flying when I finally had a chance to examine the silver coin with a flashlight, it was pretty, and I was begining to become excited myself, when I saw the date, 1957
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When I told them of my find, they were all dumbfounded, we were trying to understand how a 1957 coin ended up some 14 ft under ground, when one of them suddenly slapped hls hand to his shirt pocket, then sheepishly said that he had lost the coin while he was leaning over the baby well. sigh~!
In any event, I checked the bottom and sides of the hole with no further results.
Another day in the life of cache hunting snifff.
Don Jose de La Mancha
reading towards the end! much thanks!
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