MORBID QUESTION

[Davlin617]

I plan on getting into MD real soon and I thought of kind of a morbid question. Has anyone on these forums ever recovered a piece of jewelry and found the owner still attached to it if you know what I mean? Like an old skeleton or something.

 

[PAshooter]

I don't think it's legal to TH in graveyards J/K

A friend of mine in Miami Beach came across a corpse on the beach while TH'ing - an unlucky Asian fellow who'd been stabbed to death. Scary.

 

[Davlin617]

I figures it was in Florida, That's where I'm at. It wouldn't surprise me if I came across something like that.

 

[echostar61]

Not sure if you are asking about TH'ing in a graveyard or not . If so there are many moral issues why this is a Big NO NO ! Search the forum , They have all been addressed in the past .

Terri

 

[dobbie]

no i havent. not yet. did recover some used bullets with little bone fragment mixed in once..dont think it was anything important though. maybe a peice of necklace or something.

 

[Davlin617]

No i'm not talking about graveyards, I would never.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

The relic hunter's at some battle sites could run into bone fragments near a find or a ring on or close to a bone.I doubt if someone would alert authorities,which this could cause a lot of problems.European hunters at WW2 crash and battle sites are probably stumbling on a lot of human remains.You do raise a good point just think if your hunting an area close to an aircraft crash site this could be a possibility.

 

[robert roy]

Not yet ....maybe the next time i'm at the grave yard....well never mind!

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

Not sure if you are asking about TH'ing in a graveyard or not . If so there are many moral issues why this is a Big NO NO ! Search the forum , They have all been addressed in the past .

Terri

I don't see the big no no. I come across tome stones all the time when I am MD'ing in the wood. Sometimes you can hardly tell the stones are there. It is all grown up with trees and bushes. If I can MD there, what is the difference with one where the grass is mowed. PEOPLE! So I don't detect mowed cemeteries. If I could get permission, I would love to MD an old CW cemetery near me.

 

[robert roy]

I agree with you there. I would would probably NOT dig right on top of the grave in a NEW cemetery though.
If I came across an old cemetery in the woods I would love to MD there. Probably have to bring a weed wacker to clear away some of the brush but
why not.

RR

 

[norton4]

well, I have found a dog tag and could see some of its bones in the hole. Don't know if that counts.

 

[GRAY GHOST]

no, i've never stumbled across human remains before. i been hunting a loooong time too. but i've heard of hunters and outdoorsmen discovering remains. i think it would freak me out. hh,

 

[coinnut]

It's not if you can, it's if you should. No artifact is worth disturbing that ground for personal gain. Let the dead rest where ever they may be, high grass or not. I personally don't need to take a button or coin from a resting ground. That's just me. Others have no problem with it. Most of our items are relatively worthless anyways. I can buy just about anything I have found. But to each his own. No offense intended. But we wouldn't be hunting buddies.

 

[PAshooter]

I personally would not, although for those who would, chances are unlikely that you would disturb remains within MD range (12" or so?)...six feet under is well out of range. One could argue that at older sites, the freeze/thaw cycle may have brought things up some... who knows.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

It's not if you can, it's if you should. No artifact is worth disturbing that ground for personal gain. Let the dead rest where ever they may be, high grass or not. I personally don't need to take a button or coin from a resting ground. That's just me. Others have no problem with it. Most of our items are relatively worthless anyways. I can buy just about anything I have found. But to each his own. No offense intended. But we wouldn't be hunting buddies.

I understand where you are coming from. I do believe if I had that train of thought "I" would never MD a battle field. I do have a reverence for the lives lost and the tragedy of what happened there. You can feel it.

I believe that when you die the spirit leaves the body and the body returns to dirt. I don't even visit family graves because that isn't them. I don't esteem cut finger nails or hair. That is part of our bodies. If I lose a leg would I save it and revere it. We are spiritual beans housed in an earthly body that we will shed some day. That hair, finger nails and what ever part will turn to dirt and that is all it is: dirt. The lives and memories of our loved ones are precious, but that 6 ft. hole in the ground ain't them. If it was, I would be the first to save and protect their rest. They ain't resting there.

I happen upon these graves in over grown woods. If they were important, why were they in such a state. If I found an old coin. I don't think any one there would mind if I move a little dirt to pick it up. If they could think, I would think they would be happy that I found something that could benefit the living.

I do revere the living. If you were with me I would never MD a cemetery.

 

[Magicman]

I have found a body10 years ago, but not metal detecting (airplane crash gone unnoticed) Iraq -several

I thought I did a couple weeks ago, I was saying to myself please don't let there be a body. I haven't heard of any metal detectorist finding any.

 

[robert roy]

I don't mind the idea of MDing "around" the cemetery or even between the rows. I would not go digging people up, however, to see
what they had buried with them. I wouldn't want someone doing that to my grave, but then like the man said, "I WON'T BE THERE. Or at least I hope not.

RR

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Again morons give all of us a bad rap.These are the same people that will get you kicked out of your favorite hunting area.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

This is a two room cabin my mother was born in. It is two miles from the nearest road. It was built over a hundred years before my mother was born. 50 yards up the hill is some small tome stones laying down in the leaves. They are very hard to find under the leaves and you have to know they are there to find them. My mother told me where to find them and thought it would be a good place to check out with my MD'er. I have come across many such small head stones in the woods and hadn't notice it till I started moving the brush around. I don't break laws, but my mother and I are morons by your statement, because I have MD'ed around them. Am I a moron because I MD'ed around them or because I disagreed with you?

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[Cherokeefan68]

This is a two room cabin my mother was born in. It is two miles from the nearest road. It was built over a hundred years before my mother was born. 50 yards up the hill is some small tome stones laying down in the leaves.

The cabin area looks to be an awesome place to hunt.. Is the small burial area an old family plot?