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What Was The Craziest Object You Ever Dug Up?:crazy:
- Thread starter John-Edmonton
- Start date
kingingkunsan
Member
The non metal items. Like marbles and plastic soldiers are my odd/crazy things. They were not the intended target but out they came.
IDXMonster
Well-known member
Might not be "crazy" but an 1865 3 cent nickel....
doc holiday232
New member
One night while on a "combat mission" using my ole Metro Tech while digging a minie' ball out pops an Indian hide scrapper tool--about 4" long and with a beveled end.
still looking 52
Well-known member
Just recently I found this old shotgun shell brass that was 8" down maybe 9", the only thing remaining was the brass. I started thinking this thing has to be old so I cleaned it up and I could read the letters (W.R.A) on the bottom of it and then with some more cleaning I could read 12 which I knew that meant 12 gauge and lastly I could read the word " rival" on the other end. I've got a buddy who is good on research with his computer and he found out that brass was manufacturer from 1884 to 1929. The WRA stands for Winchester repeating arms. I almost just tossed it in the trash, glad I didn't.
doc holiday232
New member
Still Looking 52--I saw a collection of old shotgun shell heads and they were really impressive.I have found many over the years and the old ones are almost always hit off center--those old Sears 12 gauges.
fowlercharles
Member
Hi John, I once dug the bowl of a thin silver tablespoon that had been flattened and bent back and forth until it broke in half , leaving a really jagged brake line. A couple of hours later and bout 70 or 80 yards farther into the woods, I dug the other half of the spoon bowl. No mistaking the match, it was a perfect fit. Did the same thing on another dig when I dug a hammered out 1/2 dollar sized silver coin that had been halved with a chisel or knife . Dug that half only a few feet from the first one! HH, Charlie
vlad
Well-known member
a 155mm arty round......but quit digging when I saw what it was. 
Now A.M. Van Fossen was hunting near Sea Rim State Park out of Sabine Pass, and found a belt buckle attached to a belt.....around a body; a biker from a drug killing.
Another friend at the beach, after a storm got a bale of marijuana ...took it home, dried it out, said it tasted like fish.
Now A.M. Van Fossen was hunting near Sea Rim State Park out of Sabine Pass, and found a belt buckle attached to a belt.....around a body; a biker from a drug killing.
Another friend at the beach, after a storm got a bale of marijuana ...took it home, dried it out, said it tasted like fish.
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stoneshirt
Guest
Helloeverybody.
A few Years back I lived in Goa, India.Detecting a Beach,and got a strong Signal,and dug up a small Clay Jar,sealed with something,I don't remember what it was.
I returned to my Hotel and went up to my Room at this old Hotel where i was staying,and proceed to dig out the top and start washing out what i thought was a soft Clay,and this
Square piece of Copper Plate fell out. it was about Two Inches square..Well I wash it off,and there was a Grid layed out like a Chessboard with all this Hindu Script Writing that looked awfully Mysterious.I washed the jar out clean.And then took that Copper Plate downstairs,where all the old Hindu Men were sitting around in the Lobby.I held it out and asked what it might be.An old Guy took it from my Hand and said YOU SHOULD'NT BE HAVING THIS" and immediately left to the back room with it..Turns out that Clay was some High ranking Hindu's Ashes that I had dug up,and washed down the Sink Drain!! I felt kinda' weird.
Ken.
A few Years back I lived in Goa, India.Detecting a Beach,and got a strong Signal,and dug up a small Clay Jar,sealed with something,I don't remember what it was.
I returned to my Hotel and went up to my Room at this old Hotel where i was staying,and proceed to dig out the top and start washing out what i thought was a soft Clay,and this
Square piece of Copper Plate fell out. it was about Two Inches square..Well I wash it off,and there was a Grid layed out like a Chessboard with all this Hindu Script Writing that looked awfully Mysterious.I washed the jar out clean.And then took that Copper Plate downstairs,where all the old Hindu Men were sitting around in the Lobby.I held it out and asked what it might be.An old Guy took it from my Hand and said YOU SHOULD'NT BE HAVING THIS" and immediately left to the back room with it..Turns out that Clay was some High ranking Hindu's Ashes that I had dug up,and washed down the Sink Drain!! I felt kinda' weird.
Ken.
Confetrit
Well-known member
I was relic hunting one day back in the 1980's with my Garrett Deep seeker when I got a strong iron signal. I dug a good size red clay plug out of the ground and shot the hole again. No signal. shot the plug and there it was encased in this piece of Georgia red clay. I freed the piece of iron from the plug and I could tell by the shape and the weight that it was a piece of artillery shell frag. When I started to clean some of the red clay from the iron I could see what appeared to be white patina such as a bullet looking at me from the inside of this frag piece. Very strange in that the shells weren't manufactured this way. The more I cleaned, it seemed to take some short of form. I threw this piece in my bag and decided to further clean this when I got home. When I got home I believe it was the next day I began once again cleaning on this piece as I was eager to see what this was. Upon cleaning I discovered that the shape or form of this lead and white patina was in the shape of an eagle with draped wings as he was sitting or perched. I always figured that a Billy Yank found this piece of frag and melted some lead and poured it into the cavity of the iron forming the eagle while the lead was still hot. It is one of my favorite pieces and I wouldn't take anything for it.
Cameraniac
Active member
buzzoff said:
Found these in Chiefland, Florida. They were nowhere near a beach, and are the craziest objects that I have ever dug up!
I have found many gold (or dental alloys of some sort) teeth on the beach. I think the reason is: People who scatter the ashes, of their beloveds, on the beach, into the surf.
My dad .... in his later years, used to volunteer at his church for funerals a lot . Eg.: pallbearer, reader, arranging the details/paperworks, etc... And it was not uncommon that .... sometimes the persons last requests, in their wills, as to the location of their ashes (if cremated) was to have their ashes scattered in the ocean. One way this is done, is that there are pilots who .... for a fee, will drop them in, over the ocean, from the air. But more often: they can/are just tossed in at the surf's edge. My dad did this a few times, upon request.
The entire human remains, once cremated, fit into a little baggie or tobacco tin sized box. It's just resembles dirt, ash, pebbles, etc... But the gold/alloy teeth would remain (albeit perhaps a bit molten/burned looking).
My dad .... in his later years, used to volunteer at his church for funerals a lot . Eg.: pallbearer, reader, arranging the details/paperworks, etc... And it was not uncommon that .... sometimes the persons last requests, in their wills, as to the location of their ashes (if cremated) was to have their ashes scattered in the ocean. One way this is done, is that there are pilots who .... for a fee, will drop them in, over the ocean, from the air. But more often: they can/are just tossed in at the surf's edge. My dad did this a few times, upon request.
The entire human remains, once cremated, fit into a little baggie or tobacco tin sized box. It's just resembles dirt, ash, pebbles, etc... But the gold/alloy teeth would remain (albeit perhaps a bit molten/burned looking).
Yeah, sometimes people , of all cultures, races, religions, are fond of having their ashes put at the beach or ocean. Sometimes "scattered", but other times left in the container (little box or jar or whatever).
A friend of mine had a story similar to yours: He was at a state park, and got a signal at the base of a tree. He dug up a little jewelry type-looking box. At first he thought BINGO, that he had found a cache or something. He called his buddies together, and they all went into their van, pulled the curtains, and all huddled around him, and he chipped away the dirt, and studied it to find a clasp. They got it open, and found a plastic baggie inside. They opened the plastic baggie, and found it was filled with some material that seemed like pebbles, dirt, etc.... They were fishing around through this dirt-type substance, and finding nothing of interest. Then they noticed a little piece of paper in the box. Unfolded it, and .... it had the name of a mortuary, a date, etc.... They immediately realized that they'd found a cremations remains !
He quickly put everything back in the box, and went back out to the tree, and buried it again.
A friend of mine had a story similar to yours: He was at a state park, and got a signal at the base of a tree. He dug up a little jewelry type-looking box. At first he thought BINGO, that he had found a cache or something. He called his buddies together, and they all went into their van, pulled the curtains, and all huddled around him, and he chipped away the dirt, and studied it to find a clasp. They got it open, and found a plastic baggie inside. They opened the plastic baggie, and found it was filled with some material that seemed like pebbles, dirt, etc.... They were fishing around through this dirt-type substance, and finding nothing of interest. Then they noticed a little piece of paper in the box. Unfolded it, and .... it had the name of a mortuary, a date, etc.... They immediately realized that they'd found a cremations remains !
He quickly put everything back in the box, and went back out to the tree, and buried it again.
Phillip_in_NM
Member
For me it's a tie between two:
1) A roll of nickles tightly wrapped in duct tape. Must've been some guy's fist filler in a fight.
or
2) 3 dental crowns found within a few feet of each other at the top of a sledding hill. I could sort of understand if they had been at the bottom, but at the top? (Thanks to the poster above, I'm wondering if these weren't from someone's cremains.)
1) A roll of nickles tightly wrapped in duct tape. Must've been some guy's fist filler in a fight.
or
2) 3 dental crowns found within a few feet of each other at the top of a sledding hill. I could sort of understand if they had been at the bottom, but at the top? (Thanks to the poster above, I'm wondering if these weren't from someone's cremains.)
Flintstone
Well-known member
Hay Daddy, you think that is craziest thing, I found a gold tooth at Wal-Mart, still had the tooth inside the gold. I seen something shine in the sun, and sure enough it was gold. Got first place at our club for craziest find, We have a detector find and a eye find, I got the eye find prize.
Cameraniac
Active member
Flintstone said:
I think I remember reading about that one, and you are right, that might just qualify as THE craziest. When you picked it up, did you use your bare hands?? hehe
Flintstone
Well-known member
No, I used a tissue, when I got home I put it in Alcohol and Peroxide. Now it is in my display case.