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ericlb

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i was watching a program on the history channel about jesse james, and his burried money, very interesting and unlike most of these shows they actually found something on this one, plus just about proved james wasnt shot in 1882 but dies in 1935 as jm james, the digging was not on ag land, but just for discussion have any of you found artifacts or money ect on your land, for me its no unless you count bolts and old pieces of farm impliments
 
I find burried treasure every year. Tons and tons of rocks. What I haven't dug in the spring seem to grow like weeds through the summer, and get harvested in the fall.

Now if I could just find some fool to buy them.....................
 
bout the only burried "treassure" around here is what the cat left in the sandbox.Nobody hid/burried money in my familly,we all spent it on farming lol.
 
Around here, these old New England swamp yankees were too cheap to leave anything behind. I"ve poked around plenty in the fields but never even found a nail. Plenty of nice fieldstone though...I consider that a kind of treasure for my stonewall building.
 
also,if there is any truth at all to the movie"The assination of Jesse James by the coward robert ford"his body was on display after the murder.There are even picutres online which are claimed to be of him on display.Not saying he WAS shot,would be a nice ending for him if he did indeed revert to a quiet life to end his days out.
 
I found a place that looked ripe for metal detecting one time. I asked a local for permission and he said go ahead but you wont find any money. I asked him why and he said no one ever had any money in these parts poor as dirt forever. He was right I found plenty nails and horseshoes.
 
I found a medallion from the Spanish American War walking through a field going to my grandparents house. My Grandfather took it to a museum and they told him it wasn't worth much. When I got it back I put it up so it wouldn't get lost. I can't for the life of me remember where I put it. My mother tells a story of a farm worker that plowed up a cash of house hold silver that undoubtedly was buried to hide from invading Northern soldiers.
Ron
 
I haven't found any money yet,,,, but have found some Indian things, in the Valley of the Mississippi, there are plenty of places where Indians lived, and when they buried their Chiefs, they would bury a few things that where interesting,

it is against the Law to uncover these things, but some times ya just run into them when digging.

when I was a kid, many years ago, I was told of a great Indian war that took place on the bank of the Mississippi, when I dug in a few places I was told about, I found lots of Arrow heads and stone clubs, so it must have been true.
 
In our area of S Calif, All the farmers had a collection of Indian bowls, and grinding stones. Not many arrow heads, as they are hard to see from a tractor seat. We still have my Dad's collection. About all I found was a chevy v8 motor hidden in the weeds. Stan
 
Neighbour in homestead days. About 1915. found a gold ring with dragon head. rubies for eyes. NE Colorado. I grew up seeing it. His grandson still has it. Lost by traveler? Indian ? Who knows. Obvious China made.
 
When I was a kid. Some guy found a wagon load of cannon balls and some pistols.In a barn on the farm he had just bought.Had CSA on the wagon. They brought in a EOD team from the Army. Cleared everyone from around the place,then blew the barn up. Found out later the cannon balls were empty. Farm had been in the same family for years. As for me. I found the foremans whisky stash on the farm we worked on. I was sick for days.
 
Someone in our area needed a new septic system, they could only afford the tank and nothing else. They start to digg the hole by hand and unearthed a can with 70 some old gold coins in it. They only had to sell about 5 or 6 to pay for the whole system installed.
 
An awful lot of little old elixer and perfume jars of various colors and shapes and sizes. Have 4 old homesteads on land near here which very few people know about that I have recieved permission to explore with a metal detector and shovel. Should be intersting, they are all old farmsteads from early 1800"s, maybe even older. On my place I have only found a 35" heavy log chain while feild cultivating, and a 50" 3/4" cable. No idea what the heck that was doing out in this sand ground. Found an anter from a deer stuck in a tree, I couldnt pull it out, bet that was one unhappy deer after he lost the fight with that tree.
 
Did you hear about the stash uncovered in Enlgand this past summer by a guy with a metal detector?
I have found horse shoes and nails and old pieces of farm implements here in Ontario Canada.
The landowner I rent off of said his father upon switching to tractor power in the late 40s used to still yell commands to his grey fergie as though it were a horse.
 
i didnt untill last night but the evidence all points to exactly this, watch the show if you catch it on its a eye opener
 
A guy down in SC? blew himself up last year, found a civil war cannonball, was using a torch to clean it up.
 
I saw the same show, pretty interesting, but I was curious as to who's land they were digging on. I knew he was a confederate gurrella, but I didn't know that he was in a organization that survived the war.
 
that was one of the biggest eye openers of this show, using modern criminal investigative practices which compare facial features the known photo of jesse james was compared to the picture of the body in the casket not only are they not the same man, but the visible evidence on the body in the casket is completly different from ford's testimoney at his trial ,
 
I have never found anything real good. Just a few indian arrow heads and such. I do have a buddy who has a few million worth of mine'n equipment under his place. He just has not figured out how to get too it.

Dave
 
I have not heard of any one getting blown up. But digging them up is not that uncommon around here in Charleston. I know of a guy around here that drills them remotely underwater, takes the black powder out and sells them. People find a good many of them in the marsh.
Ron
 
I was bulldozing an old farmstead, saw an old tobacco can, shook it and found 8 $20.00 gold pieces, none special. I have also found Indian bowls and pestals when digging ditches close to the river....james
 
There's a depression in the earth at the top of a river bank on one end of our farm. Story is, it was a dugout, facing the river, where early settlers once lived. I've never had the ambition to do as much digging as it would require, although from the appearance it's plausible.
 
We used to lease a pasture where there was an old house foundation. Cattle would rub on the foundation and keep the soil around it turned up. It was rare that you didn"t find a few marbles around there. The place was way out in the sticks and the ground was rough and poor. We always thought that in order to try farming that place they would already have lost their marbles.
 
My brother, who was born in 1933, told about visiting Merimac Caverns on a high school trip. He said there was an OLD man hanging around the place who insisted that he was Jesse James.

Also said one of the kids, a real tall guy, found a gold coin on an overhead ledge in the cave. Don't know if he got to keep it.

I thought they dug up old Jesse a few years ago and confirmed his identity thru DNA testing. . .

I remember being disappointed that it was really Jesse who was killed by Mr. Ford. The song kinda romanticized him. "The dirty rotten coward that shot Mr. Howard"

Nothing of any value found on this farm. Always inhabited by poor folks - to this day. . .

Paul
 
In my work as a Carpenter we were building a farmhouse. It was an exact replica of the old one which had been previously removed. We kept seeing shiny spots in the dirt around the site and when we checked them out they would be silver half dollars from the 1920's! We told the homeowner and he replied "Well put 'em in your pockets then, I already got plenty of 'em!" Guess somebody had a stash in the foundation of the old house.
 
Sorry, it wasn't in SC, it was in Virgina. Guy was drilling or grinding on a 75lb naval shell. It was last year : http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-05-02-199541444_x.htm
 
There have been a couple of incidents in the area of found money. they always follow the same basic story. miserly, poor LOOKING people, who lived through the depression and who do not trust banks die suddenly. The new owner of the property finds the hidden loot, if the next of kin have not found it first. That is the type of senario I would look at first if I were looking for lost loot.
 
My Paternal grand-father was a river man, steamboat Captain, boat builder, and travelled extensively along and over the Western Rivers! Those were the Alleghany, Monongahela, and the Ohio.
In his travels, he collected quite a pile of Indian collectible things, and had them displayed in a cabinet at his home near Pittsburgh, PA.
When the depression came, he lost his shirt, so to say, and had to sell everything! The only item left is an old "trade axe" that was used by the settlers as money when buying from the local Indians. I have it, in my collection of interesting items.
 
In the 70s workers remodeling the "Mons Anderson"
house, in LaCrosse Wisconsin, The home of a
merchant from the River Boat days on the
Mississippi, found, when replacing a floor, a
mason jar of $20 gold coins. Each carpenter was
given one coin, the owners got the rest!
 
I started a rumer at the local coffee shop that some coins were burried in my garden a couple of years ago in the spring , and got my garden turned over for free
 
(quoted from post at 13:35:58 11/15/09) ...... I do have a buddy who has a few million worth of mine'n equipment under his place. He just has not figured out how to get too it.

Dave
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f it has been setting any length off time it is rusted solid, and if very far down, probably under water.
 
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