Myth or truth?

[Anonymous]

Has anyone ever heard of this theory? Was told by an old timer today that after each winter's frost old deep coins will come up closer to the surface. Truth or myth? what say you <img src="/metal/html/confused.gif" border=0 width=15 height=22 alt=":?">
HH
Swampy

 

[Anonymous]

Every time the ground freezes and thaws objects are pushed up. Do you remember seeing icy frozen ground and there would be small rocks and dirt lifted up in the ice? That's the same principle the old-timer told you about. There's other conditions as well that will bring objects up closer to the surface such as....the wind, the rain (eroding away topsoil, animal and people traffic, cultivating and plowing fields and so forth. The same is true for indian artifact hunting. Hope this sheds some light on the subject for you. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> But also stuff can be buried deeper by such things as enviromental conditions such as weather, decaying grass, weeds, leaves and other organic materials. Also by adding fill dirt to level up low spots and etc..
Scott

 

[Anonymous]

Now that it's fall I've noticed I've been digging alot of them at 6-9 inches.
This is epecially true in plowed fields as Scott said, indian artifacts push their way up over winter and then spring rain washed them off so we can see them.
I always figured that coins would be deepest in the woods because of the massice amount of decay being laid on top of the ground but most coins I 've heard being dug in forests are very shallow...that one had me baffled.
HH,
Greg

 

[Anonymous]

relics in the woods under massive oak trees. I would have thought they would have been much deeper. I noticed last weekend the ground under those big trees were hard as a rock and bone dry even though it had rained good for a day and a half. Maybe it's because of this hard ground that the coins can't penetrate deeper. Once outside of the trees canopy, the digging got easier and the targets were deeper. I believe (and it's only speculation on my part) that the ground under these big trees stay dry most of the year except for when the leaves are gone that it causes the ground to stay hard.
Scott

 

[Anonymous]

frost heave. A buckling of the frozen earth in an upward motion..Ralph

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Snuff,
Forested areas let much less light down to the ground and have less topsoil production. Most of the biomass remains up in the forest canopy. So coins in shady areas tend to be shallower because of less matter decaying and covering them. I've found very old coins very shallow in these conditions.
That is why the topsoil is much deeper in the plains states and why farming in previously forested areas is less productive. In rain forests despite all the lush growth there is very little topsoil. Once cleared it is poor farming and that is why they do slash and burn farming: they need to move on to new land every few years because of lack of fertile topsoil.
Frost heaves can move coins around. Not necessarily up but enough that every spring you can often find coins that you couldn't before.

 

[Anonymous]

Just look into some of the FREE land that was given to early settlers in western Ontario. All they had to do was clear the land and plant something to harvest.
The rocks would keep comming to the surface every spring. I never seen so many fences made out of rocks.
A lot of settlers left their rock farms and headed for the cities..lol.

 

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