- Jun 9, 2013
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- Detector(s) used
- White XLT Spectrum E-Series
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Hey guys... I am going to get up early Fri. morning and head back to this cave I found in 1994 after moving to TN. from MI. I've been back to it about 20 times since and have photographed it 1.5 hrs. deep. I NEVER thought much about this cave until a few months ago when I started to MD. This old road behind my house has given up many, many horseshoes, old shotgun head stamps, old wagon parts, chain links and other old iron pieces and I've barely searched. This area is very rural and almost entirely wooded with "nobody" around. It's close to the Duck River and Natchez Trace where a lot of Civil War activity occurred. The cave is about 150 yds. off this old road and VERY HARD TO SEE LET ALONE FIND! I found it entirely by luck when "mother nature" turned the overhead seeping groundwater into a pitch white frozen waterfall on the side of a remote ridge. I crawled up entered and was in awe. When I went back in the spring I had to hunt like hell to find it again. It was quite obvious that Indians had utilized it at one time. It has a small stream of water that constantly runs through it (3ft. wide x 6"deep). When the water exits the cave it travels downhill for about 40 yds. and goes right back underground again. The water within cave is supplied by an artesian well about 1 hr. deep into cave (about a 3' circle").
This is what intrigues me now about the MD usage and if anybody has done this before please chime in with any advise. From this caves entrance to about the 1st 100 yds.+ or more has MORE HIDING PLACES than a house of mirrors. While walking in the small stream there are dirt/mud mounds that rise up within 12" or less to the ceiling and have wide open areas behind them for another 2-4 feet to the caves walls on both sides!!! I gotta know what's behind them walls... but you can't "peek" over them anywhere to see. So I've rigged up a small swiveling mirror on the end of a 5 ft. piece of pvc and hopefully maybe can "see" when I shine an LED light into mirror... But I'm not sure this will work. Maybe throw a lantern light on a rope over and then look with mirrored stick... Or... do I just put MD over mounds and hope for the best. It is a very wet environment with big drops of water falling from ceiling (not good @ all for MD'er). When I asked a place in Nashville if cave was documented they came out and said NO and were VERY SURPRISED... this was a totally undocumented cave until now. I joined this group last week and posted 1st on the "metal detecting" forum ('getting started") about this but now I'm asking for advise from someone who maybe has done this. There are a few symbols in the mud from long ago and have faded due to the humidity. ANYBODY DONE THIS!!!!
Thanks, Brad
This is what intrigues me now about the MD usage and if anybody has done this before please chime in with any advise. From this caves entrance to about the 1st 100 yds.+ or more has MORE HIDING PLACES than a house of mirrors. While walking in the small stream there are dirt/mud mounds that rise up within 12" or less to the ceiling and have wide open areas behind them for another 2-4 feet to the caves walls on both sides!!! I gotta know what's behind them walls... but you can't "peek" over them anywhere to see. So I've rigged up a small swiveling mirror on the end of a 5 ft. piece of pvc and hopefully maybe can "see" when I shine an LED light into mirror... But I'm not sure this will work. Maybe throw a lantern light on a rope over and then look with mirrored stick... Or... do I just put MD over mounds and hope for the best. It is a very wet environment with big drops of water falling from ceiling (not good @ all for MD'er). When I asked a place in Nashville if cave was documented they came out and said NO and were VERY SURPRISED... this was a totally undocumented cave until now. I joined this group last week and posted 1st on the "metal detecting" forum ('getting started") about this but now I'm asking for advise from someone who maybe has done this. There are a few symbols in the mud from long ago and have faded due to the humidity. ANYBODY DONE THIS!!!!
Thanks, Brad