Thanks glad you all enjoyed checking it out and I'm going to have it looked at by a friend of a friend that works at a local university,I'm kinda weirded out about it..it is strange but I will probally keep all the silver and gold and return the junky stuff to the spot it came from as a little peace offering if I did interfere with some kind of offering or something like that,ill post any additional info I get,Mole
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i found me a little stash in the woods!
- Thread starter pghmole
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ryanchappell
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banditicey said:What A Wonderful Find!
A friend MDer here found years ago a very similar stash and I believe it was a Find of the Year in a Detector Magazine
If your interested I can get the site for you to view
But the reasoning for the Finds was that it was near or in an old Convent area and when a Nun died they would bury her Worldly Goods
Which as you can see may be a variety of precious and semi precious metal religious items
Either way this is an Amazing Find
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These medals are consider sacred in a way similar to a bible, hence their careful return to the earth. Also, they are often blessed by a priest, giving them even more significance as a symbol of faith. You would want to pass a gold cross like that down to someone else, but in a convent, they would not want to favor one sister as a friend over the others nor covet something from the deceased, so I can see why this would be necessary. Makes you want to look into the history of the house. I wonder if an old widow lived there and the family did this out of respect and tradition.
Good idea about returning the stuff you don't want. I am not sure if you want to disturb the spot further, but there could be chains in that spot. Chains could come up really low. Even silver chains are difficult to detect with an E-Trac. Turn off discrimination, and maybe use a good small jewelry detector like a compadre, or an X-1 probe.
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That's amazing!!