Question? Does Anyone Periodically Re-Bury A Find For Someone Else To Find?

[John-Edmonton]

Every once in a while, I sort of feel blessed, in that I have found so many good keepers, yet don't want to be too greedy. I hope that my kids may some day pick up the hobby, and it would be nice if they too could dig up some old targets. So, I have reburied (usually relics) finds, so someone else too can experience the pleasure of digging up an old interesting find. Sometimes, I throw a hand full of change in the area I have hunted to sort of "give back" to the hobby.

 

[DELETED USER (Emmitt)]

LMAO!!!!!!

 

[Dave_E]

I rarely hunt public places. I am almost always hunting old private permissions.

I know what you mean when you say you feel blessed though, as I do too.

While I would never re-bury a find, I will offer finds back to the property owner. Most times they do not take me up on the offer. They simply enjoy looking at the finds with me.
I have had owners accept items on occasion. V nickel, IHP, beautiful old bridle rosette, etc....

Neat of you to leave some items behind though.

 

[Mega]

Have never re-buried any finds in all the years that i have been detecting,i usually hunt either pasture sites or farmland that has been deep ploughed and rolled on my private permission,if i find anything decent say like some roman or hammered silvered coins then i will show the farmer/land owner and give them the option too keep any of the finds,usually they decline or recent one of my farmers took 2 hammered coins,not the best condition for his daughter who is doing history at school,he was so pleased with that gesture that i gained a additional 450 prime acres of land including a very large roman villa.

So although i dont technically re-bury any finds i do give some to my land owners,but i always do the traditional thing at christmas by presenting the various farmers/landowners a nice bottle of port or whisky and a premium box of Belgium chocolates for the wife,this then allows me another 12 months of detecting.

Regarding finds or re-burying them,one thing that always amazes me is when these US detecting folks arrive in the UK for a detecting related holiday they always seem to find celtic gold staters and other prime finds that elude us british detectorists,it could take a few years to find each gold stater but when the folks from across the pond arrive they always find them straight away,you must be far better detectorists than us i guess

 

[Dancer]

Sometimes, I leave something just above the Surf line. This year it was a old watch. Caused quite the commotion. When followers spotted it.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

No as the local public parks only have clad...A local dealer always buried a numbered tag at a popular park and fellow who found it received a nice prize....

 

[jim tn]

I see signs on occasion that some hunters do. Unless, he leaves the trash item on the outside of the hole. HH jim tn

 

[Hoser John]

In days of old gold miners had a practice called "putback". I've found many multiple coins stuffed into cracks that were dug out of a vertical wall. The put back was in accordance to how much gold was found . My best has been a a couple 50 cent pieces, quarters,dimes galore but nothing gold hahaha. Anyhow I have done the same albeit modern coins so folks know the year. John

 

[oneguy]

I hunt almost all public ground now and being the considerate fellow I am towards my fellow detectorists......I leave the zinc for them and sacrifice my body and only go after the deep harder to dig stuff........

 

[vlad]

counterfeits and bury them at the beach near his house--said he saw some elated reactions from guys with detectors.
Any costume jewelry we don't sell at the Gun Shows, we bury in the wet area at the beach in Lake Charles.

 

[Herb Jones]

No, but I will replace an old worn out crusty old pull tab with a fresh shiny new one.... cheers

 

[jd88047]

I dont just detect. I look for caches. I always seem to have someone come back and dig holes everywhere. One day someone through a bag of used sex toys in the yard. Yes, some grown man climbed up a cliff face at 700 feet and pulled out a dildo. The good hunters know those overhangs will have pottery and such. So yes I putback you could say. I quit getting followed in that area after that.

 

[Texas Ed]

I do every now & then take a small medicine bottle filled with zinc pennies that I will sometimes dig up and I will bury at the local parks & beach for the next guy to find. I occasionally will go back & see if the zinc cashes have been retrieved by someone. I also place a note inside that reads left by Texas ED.

Texas ED
S/E Texas Gulf Coast

 

[MarkCZ]

NO!
And the reason is simple most of the areas I hunt are older trashy sites and they are ones that I repeatedly return to. The idea is to keep clearing metallic items out of the way to unmask more hidden treasure targets. Burying stuff back in the area defeats that process.

Mark

 

[jd88047]

Being serious now, I do place a know target be it coin or something else. I do this at a place I dont think anyone will walk over. A area that is not disturbed and trash free. I use this as test for my detector to make sure Im getting depth and id right. I dont like over powering the coil. Another reason I may not dig a target as it is a deep can. I know the can is there, so just leave it. When I come into say a tot lot, if I dont hear any signals I pack up and leave. If I am not making gas money I know it has been hunted. I once got these gold plate pokimon cards. Things were huge and I forgot I had buried one for a test spot. Yep, I dug it up a few years later. I also check others holes. I dont understand going to all the trouble to dig these ugly holes and leave trash at the bottom. I see our local parks getting put off limits if it continues.

 

[WaterHound]

No but one of these days I am gonna bury a nice big fake gold ring with a tag on it saying I got you ring master , if I can place it in front of him .

 

[ironsight]

Do it all the time, leave and rebury crusty zincolns in the hole for some other 'lucky' detectorist to find!

 

[Prep1957]

I put silver halfies at 3 locations at 12 inches deep at public parks almost 15 years ago.Before I put them in the ground they were sealed in plastic with my name and my phone number to call me if they were found.The reason I did this back then was I was pretty sure everyone was full of S**t finding coins at 12 inches deep with a detector and I cannot tell you how many people went over that halve over the years, real entertainment for me.Even today I have only used one locator that has the power to find it and it just came out 2 years ago.The other two halfies may never be found sites are closed to metal detectors now.

 

[jd88047]

No matter if I hunt the spot regular or not. I cart out what ever I dig up. It would be considered bad manners here to re bury a zinc or leave trash. To each his own, but I have a good rapport with the parks people and such. Gonna keep it that way too. I have been to tot lots with bb's and zinc pennys. While its a wasted hour or so, I do clean them up if Im going hunt that spot again.

Now certain things po me. Razor blades, fish hooks, needles, used condoms. I usually dont go back to those places. I almost got stuck by a syringe a few weeks ago. It was buried in the sand under a slide. Right where a kid would get stuck with it. What is wrong with people.

 

[ironsight]

....No matter if I hunt the spot regular or not. I cart out what ever I dig up. It would be considered bad manners here to re bury a zinc or leave trash. To each his own,....

Bad manners? How so?
A zincoln is technically and legally NOT trash, its still U.S. legal tender!
Whats the difference reburying a zincoln and reburying other 'Easter Eggs' mentioned in this thread?