Deepest find?

[Dominoe]

What is the deepest depth you have dug to retrieve an item and what was that item?

I'm talking coins, caches, relics, pots, kettles, chests, or sacks of whatever. Anything that you had to dig down to reach, cave exploration not included.

I'm curious how deep people have acutally dug to find their targets, I read that some of these long lost caches or hoards are buried up to 100 feet deep and it just amazes me that way back when people would dig down 100 feet, just think of the difficulties in excavation, getting in and out of the hole and lifting the dirt out. I have read about wagon trains burying their cash box during indian raids up to 80 feet deep and I'm surprised they can get that deep a hole dug before being over run.

 

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[lab rat]

My deepest paying hole was about 1' down in beach sand, for a Man's 14k wedding band. That was with an 8"coil. If you get a more sensitive detector with a larger coil, you can easily go deeper, but then you lose the smaller targets.

I've heard of a fellow locating a deep signal, and with shared digging opened a 10' deep hole over 3 days, and recovered a 35 gallon steel drum. A lot of work for a trash target! :lol: I don't know what kind of detector he was using.

 

[Gold Digger]

My deepest coin find was a Merc dime at 14" in sand and black clay dirt mixed. The sand was brought in for a swingset at a local park, and had been there for no less than 20 years prior to me detecting there. I had skipped over this dime at least 15 times previously using a Garret. The dime was found with a older Spectrum XLT...

The deepest ring I've found was at 8" in black clay dirt and was appraised at $2500 with 5 diamonds totalling approx 1ct and 18 kt gold. Large mens ring.

I've not found any coin caches. But I did find an old Texas State Seal Crimp Stamp behind an old fireplace of an abandoned house. Total of about 16" from the coil... It was inside a coffee can and there were also several books of WWII food ration stamps (C rations?) in almost mint condition, some of the "books" were intact completely with no stamps missing. All of which I gave to the landowner...

 

[flash]

Dominoe,,,,

I've had a few cold ones ,,but nobody has buried anything 80-100 ft deep.Come on now.



I have found a silver dime and 3 wheats in the same hole at 8" Had it not been for all them being together I may noy not have found any of them.

I have also picked up some big targets 12 " or deeper but once I found it in the ground and I see rust ,size and it don't come out easy .I'm done with it. Where I am at,, Depends if it comes out of the ground.

The best item I have ever found was a diamond ring at 3/4 of a inch.

 

[Cladius]

30 06 round at 9 inches first day out with new minelab still learning mach. Cladius

 

[coinshooter]

I found a full six pack of beer at about 2 feet.

 

[Rich in Texas]

Now thats a find!!!!!

 

[Lowbatts]

Yep, deepest usable target is usually beer on a beach. Got a six pack at about 20 inches at a park in town here, another one at N. Ave. Beach, Chicago. Sure it stays cooler but after the first six pack they don't remember where the second one is buried.
Coins in dirt:
Wheatie 10"
Quarter 12"
Dime 8"
Nickel 8"

Heavy gold wedding band 9" in sand

Pinpointing a deep large target I dug down two feet once and got all fired up. Square, large metal object. Could feel the edges. Spent an hour trying to delicately open the hole and remove the target which had to be a box of gold, except it wasn't. Old square shovel blade. Went almost three feet deep and recoverd a large wash basin once. I'm sure I could find a "36 Dodge within six feet but digging it up might be more than I can handle with the trowel.

 

[coinshooter]

Lowbatts, I know what you mean. I was digging (with permission) in a neighbor's back yard when I came upon a large metal piece with very defined edges in the shape of a box about 18" x 6" wide. I couldn't feel the bottom so I assumed it was a box. After digging for a long time, I yanked out the object. It weighed about 40 lbs and I was dreaming about loot. It turned out to be a huge iron block, flat with tapering sides and then on the bottom edges there was a squre edge cut out on each side like it held down a rail of some sort. I am assuming it was used for the railroads or a trolley system in town. Maybe I'll post a pic of it. Sure made my meter ring!

 

[Lowbatts]

Oh yeah, and there's that iron box me and the kid found last summer in a parkway in town. It was down 7 inches. The work crew had removed about 5" already. Got the solid signal, used pinpoint mode to determine the size and general shape. Slowly unearthed the lettering on the top of the box, an "O", and "E" an "M" and so on until I could read the whole word. Telephone Company. An old long dead junction box left in place. It was on the back of the block from the old phone company building in town.

 

[Darla]

Deep targets

I dig alot of deep targets as long as I keep getting a signal.

sterling silver coin purse 18"
colt derringer pistol (cocked) 10"
military payroll seal/tag 12'
slave chain 2'

Deepest coin to date was a 1831 large cent at about 10"

Alot of my targets seem to come out at about 6 to 8 inches but as you can see their are exceptions to the rule so I will keep digging the deep targets.

 

[Slingshot]

I dug a Civil War cannon ball at 2 feet - I can't remember what machine I was using, I could see the fuse still in the ball and covered it back up. I marked the spot and told a fellow digger who recovered it - I don't mess around with ordnance! I once witnessed my digging partner recover a Indian Head Penny from 14 inches using a Whites 5900. My Teknetics 9000 couldn't read it in all metal. I kept urging him to cover the hole and move on, as we were in a downtown area, and right next to the road. I didn't believe there was anything in his hole, but after he retrieved the penny you could see the green spot it had made in the bottom. I measured the depth to the oxidation, and still am amazed!

 

[timemachine]

I dug to my knees for a smashed casing of a .22LR, and I've dug almost to my hips for a railroad spike. I definitely need to get in better shape!

 

[Digger]

Found this at about 12" right off of Wyatt Earp, used to be the Santa Fe Trail, in Dodge City Kansas during some road work. Its about the size of a half dollar but copper and thick like a dollar. Maybe a shipping tag? wasn't far from the Santa Fe Depot.

 

[tcornel]

I had an elbow deep target 18" to 20" to the top of the target by a big tree. It looked to be rusted iron but when I pressed on the top with the propointer it gave way and was open below it. I almost lost the propointer in the hole!

So I have iron over top a hole in the ground. No way was I going to cover that up. Roots were in the way and my wrist was pretty sore. The site was about a mile from my house on a friend's property so I went home and got my Case 580 BACKHOE and dug it out. It turned out that it was an upside down porcelain bucket that someone buried..........nothing inside

So that was a first.....a hole so big I had to use a backhoe to get it out. The hole ended up being 24" wide (size of the bucket) and maybe 30" to the bottom. It filled in nicely and by the end of the summer was covered in grass again. We were pretty excited during the process. Thought we had something.