What is the weirdest thing that you ever found while detecting?

[hotrod53]

While digging in an old 1830's Church site connected to a graveyard I got a nice signal, I had found numerous great finds at this site in the past. Everything from a seated dime, a silver 3 cent piece, buffalos, and a handful of Indians. I started to dig and out popped a HUMAN VERTEBRAE! This thing was like L5 or something! The grave yard must have been larger than it looked or remains somehow surfaced and scattered over the 160 years. This thing was only about 3" under the surface! Pretty creepy!

 

[Pastor bob]

A condom still wrapped in foil about 3" deep next to a small town city sidewalk.

 

[GTzer]

Many trade & glass beads same hole as metal/ coin finds. Henri 8th metal near a 1600 Swedish Site. A green patina metal acorn in a pile of real acorns.Indian Head pennies on the surface (several seasons-same place-a little flower bed). A gun. EMPTY mason jars (5-6 x) buried in typical cache places-(ie old house site-next to a fence post-upright-sealed 10" down etc) Silver Challenger.Metal amidst surface paper trash. G.A.R. medal. Silver plated penny.

There are more that don't come to mind.

 

[Blank Planet]

girl jumped the fence lifting up her shirt saying can you wave that thing here see if my belly button ring is real no lie so i did and it was and made her happy for some reason and i sure had a chuckle

 

[mapper65]

A 1946 silver dime on top of the ground at a well used soccer field. The only thing that I can guess is that someone else was detecting in that same area and may have dropped it. I still can't believe that it was just sitting there.


A small raccoon in a park garbage can when I was throwing some trash away that I had dug up. He looked pretty weak but I tipped the can over and coaxed him out and he went along his way.

 

[At a Siding]

In a neighbors yard, a small, fancy tin container, heavy for its size. When I opening it, I found ashes - most likely a family pet!

 

[tjhoosier]

Digging a target next to an old silo and up pops an arrowhead. Last thing I expected to see. There were lots of old square nails in the area and that's what I thought I was digging.

 

[Kieth-Tx]

An old 3 Merry Widows aluminum condom holder from the 1920's-30's

 

[TomB]

I don't know if this would be considered weird but it sure was odd. I was hunting near the Cold Harbor battle field in Hanover Co Va. (just north of Richmond). I was hunting an area where the day before I had recovered two U.S. buckles ( one large and one smaller) from the same hole. I had been swing for about twenty minutes when I heard both a high and low town on my Metrotech detector. I removed about 4" of sandy Hanover Co. soil and pulled a .58 Yankee bayonet from the ground. This would explain the low tone on the detector. I passed the detector back over the dug area and received a high tone on each side of the hole. I carefully dug because I suspected the high tone to be brass targets. From each side of where the Yankee bayonet had been laying I recovered two Virginia state seal buttons. In all the years that I have been hunting civil war relics, it is the only time that I recovered both a Yankee and Confederate relic from the same hole. TomB

 

[Terra1959]

Tom....maybe the bayonet got thrust into the chest of Confederate soldier and became un-attached ?
I am thinking that accounts for nearby buttons if they were shirt or jacket buttons
...just a thought
T59

I recently found a small hand grenade which scared the crap out of me but it turned out to be a cigarette lighter

I heard of fellow who dug up a condom holder ...a long tubular metal container with a screw lid
These are from the old days before latex and when condoms were very delicate and made from yuck ! ..animal intestines or whatever

happy swinging
T59

 

[Arcturus]

girl jumped the fence lifting up her shirt saying can you wave that thing here see if my belly button ring is real no lie so i did and it was and made her happy for some reason and i sure had a chuckle

First time through, I misread shirt as skirt.

 

[7centsworth]

I got a sweet high tone along time ago when i had a bounty hunter and dug down and hit a copper tube. Then I realized it lead to a several hundred gallon propane gas tank. Man was I about 6to mess up big time.

 

[Terra1959]

I am a member of an Aussie metal detecting forum
One guy last year found a metal box buried and when he got it out the ground and prised the lid open it contained 6 sticks of sweating GELIGNITE
The cops got called, they called the Army bomb disposal guys and they decided it was too unstable to move so they cleared the park and blew it skyhigh

 

[morelic55]

I wish I could post the item I found a few years back in a Union Army camp, it was a love/good luck charm, too explicit, XXX for young eyes. It was molded form lead from the original piece. 2nd was this arrowhead I dug when I recovered a top to an old beer can, that's a half dollar coin holder!!!...........Mark

 

[bob.oz]

had to cut a tree root to get the ring off it.

 

[morelic55]

That is too cool!!!!!

had to cut a tree root to get the ring off it.

 

[MADCLADDER]

Mental note add keyhole saw to my tools

 

[DELETED USER (Emmitt)]

I got permission to detect an old religious meeting camp in my town thats dates back to the 1850's. This camp has been detected many many times over the past decades, so my chances of finding stuff were very slim. I had the X30 at the time. I was detecting near one of the cottages near a pretty old big tree. The X 30 went nuts on me. I started digging! When i first saw the jar i started to panic!! Chock full of what appeared to be coins, with the first one that hit my eye being a gold coin! My heart was pumping! After removal of the PLASTIC PETER PAN PEANUT BUTTER JAR and further inspection of the contents, i just had to laugh! Full of pennies and Chuckie Cheese tokens and religious coins! Must have been some kids time capsule. I dug the hole about another foot deeper, put the jar back in and covered it! My buddie got a big chuckle over the whole thing as so did i after my heart rate went back to normal! Didn't find to much in that camp with the X30, but when i purchased the X705 a year ago and went back i found quite a lot of barber and seated dimes that others missed! I hope the kids retrieve there capsule someday! LOL...Happy Hunting all! Emmett

 

[MADCLADDER]

Mental note ( add keyhole saw to pouch )

 

[David]

Motel room key with a great big diamond shaped tag attached to it that said drop in the mail box to return.