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What would you folks do?

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oldranger

New member
Ran into a buddy yesterday that I
havent seen in a while He asked how the :detecting:
was going ..
Then he asked if id gone to the old cementary .. I had no
idea what he meant ..He told me about an old cementary
about a mile from here in the woods ..the whole time i
was growing up and playing in those woods i never saw it
but i know where it is now thanks for Mark

The question is would you guys hunt there?
its not that im afraid .. but it seems to me anyway
to be a bit unethical ..

Opinions please

Thanks

Ron

Rangers s Lead The Way
 
I would not, and with that said I know there are others who say things like "bodies are buried too deep" to detect jewelery, gold teeth, etc. Matter of fact, I wouldn't get within yards of one because of the ideas someone might get from seeing a guy with a MD swinging it in the vicinity of graves.....especially if they have family buried there. There's nothing buried (relic/coin wise) that would be worth it for me........but that's just my opinion.

Often there was a church (and a school, or the church doubled as a school) nearby to the old cemeteries. I'd be more interested in locating that.

Smitty
 
Not a good idea. I know of a couple of overgrown, abandoned cemeteries and I never considered going to either one of them. I might consider the dirt road leading to one of them, but probably not worth the effert.

MrGee
 
I went to one that was way off the road in a wooded area, but it was my own ancestors. I would not go to one that wasn't family. Anyway, found a lot of fired 22 shells and a couple old ax heads. No coins. Guess people had done some target pratice or squirrell hunting. I may go back one day and take my time and cover every inch of it.
 
The majority so far are
confirming what i already thought
and felt ... theres a lot of other
places to swing a coil ...

Thanks for the hlelp folks!!!!

Ron

Rangers Lead The Way
 
I stay away from graveyards. Would you want some yahoo digging up your loved one's grave? In most places it is against the law as you are trespassing on private property.

Bill
 
I already new what i was going to do
but i was curiosu about others..and i did read in one
of thae Garretts books that cematries were a site to hunt coins..
THAT really got me curious

Thanks for all the input

HH

Ron

Rangers Lead The Way
 
Your DANG RIGHT I'd hunt there. Its old and its in the wood. Just don't take anything attached to a hand.:lol:
We had an old one several miles out of the city a truck driver told me about, in the woods, but I lost track
of it, and him. Besides your not going to be digging up the old boys and girls buried there but around and about the site.
Katz
 
Note that I said I hunt cemetery sites and not grave sites. Burials have not always been buried 6 feet deep. Many people have had visitors of family or friends who have left (secreted) little things, like a special ring or a good luck coin or something, at the grave site, usually near the headstone. To me, I respect the honor of a grave site and the commemorative things left that show love or appreciated of someone who has passed.

That said, I have sought older, more dated cemeteries which are often out in the country a piece. Places that haven't had any burial for years, decades or much more, but are sites once visited. I am not in search of the individual graves. I am looking for old cemeteries that have a dedicated perimeter to them. Often, when people went to 'visit' on horse or buggy, or even very early automobiles, some cemeteries had hitching or parking areas. They also had a grove of trees and it wasn't all that uncommon for a holiday or birthday or other remembrance to take place with a picnic gathering after visiting. Pay respects, places some flowers, tidy the grave-site, then adjourn to the grove for a picnic.

So, my goals are to locate old-use cemeteries that have hitching/parking areas for gatherings as well as a grove at or very near the cemetery. Those are the places I want to hunt, not right at and around the grave sites.

It's worked for me.

Monte
 
I know guys who have but I would not just would not feel comfortable doing it so I would not enjoy my self. I detect to relax and have fun i would always feel uneasy doing it so it would not be fun for me.


Jasom
 
Way back when cars were rare find a hole in the fence and you just might find a path leading to the nearest town and a few goodies also....
 
Great response Monte. I too have ONLY searched those places. In fact out of respect and probably guilt also, I wont even walk around the gravestones with my detector.
 
not with a detector anyway...i have lots of pix of interesting and unique headstones, never did any etching or charcoal copies but always been fascinated by upright headstones and some of them have photographs mounted into them but....no digging!
 
I wouldn't hunt a cemetery of any kind...but I guess if you think about it, people are constantly hunting and digging in "cemeteries". Just turn on the Discovery channel and you'll see graveyards being dug up all over the place...in the name of science and archaeology. I guess the question should be "How old does a burial site have to be to make it ok to 'hunt'"?
 
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