Just curios

[ELITE]

I have seen other people post "What what your strangest find" and i am just curios what was your biggest find (IN SIZE).

 

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[jeff of pa]

a road (curve) sign

 

[63bkpkr]

looked like one of the journals to a stamp mill found in dry creek bed way down the hill from the ore crushing site. Maybe 100-200 lbs...63bkpkr

 

[digging440yrs]

2 FOOT OF OLD RAILROAD TRACK---- HEAVEY----

 

[GemSetter]

Gemsetter

 

[GemSetter]

Gemsetter

I found an approx 15" in diameter plow disc about 8" down and it took me an hour to get that sucker outa the ground.

 

[63bkpkr]

Gemsetter,
Oh how I feel for your work getting it out of the ground! Your comment gave me my first smile of the day.....63bkpkr

 

[TerryC]

4 foot flue pipe in meadow that led to two (so far) foundation finds. TTC

 

[Muddyhandz]

I found a 1940's car buried in the sand on Vancouver Island, B.C.
The locals had forewarned me that people used drive along the shore in the old days and would park to go picnic and forget about the tide coming in.
Sure enough, I got a massive signal and cleared enough sand to see the bubble top of an old car.
I did not want to spend all day to dig it out and have the tide come in and bury it again.
I don't think I'll find anything bigger than a car!
Cheers,
Dave.

 

[bill from lachine]

Elite,

I guess my biggest would be a manhole cover......kept getting this overload signal in a certain section of an old school yard....one day curiosity got the better of me and dug down about a foot or so and saw the rounded edge of the manhole cover......I guess it was there for drainage and they covered it up with fill....lol.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[worldtalker]

2 FOOT OF OLD RAILROAD TRACK---- HEAVEY----

Makes a nice anvil!!

 

[GemSetter]

Gemsetter,
Oh how I feel for your work getting it out of the ground! Your comment gave me my first smile of the day.....63bkpkr

LOL...now if I was a can collector, now there could be some money there! I find more soda and beer cans than anything. Just this past week though I found a Civil War pistol bullet right in my own backyard. You never know where the treasure will be for sure.

 

[63bkpkr]

Gemsetter,
Okay a civil war bullet in VA is a likely, at first I'd read it as WA, and I'd guess the caliber puts it in the pistol category. Yup one never knows where something special will be found. I 'have' a can collection, a whole one or two, a Maple Syrup Can Shaped like a house after the classic syrup company who's name I can not pull out of the gray matter right now and a beer can I found in an old gold mining camp, likely from the 20's. As you are finding a lot of cans at least you know your detector is working, something good about most things..............63bkpkr

 

[GemSetter]

Gemsetter,
Okay a civil war bullet in VA is a likely, at first I'd read it as WA, and I'd guess the caliber puts it in the pistol category. Yup one never knows where something special will be found. I 'have' a can collection, a whole one or two, a Maple Syrup Can Shaped like a house after the classic syrup company who's name I can not pull out of the gray matter right now and a beer can I found in an old gold mining camp, likely from the 20's. As you are finding a lot of cans at least you know your detector is working, something good about most things..............63bkpkr

On one of our recent digs, my husband and his friend both found silver. My husband found 1892 quarter , a CW bullet and his buddy found a half dollar, 1902 in the same field. iI also found a larger Civil War bullet that evidently hit someone or some thing as its flattened out on top. These wree all found in approx 7 acre field.
We are in Louisa County and there was lots of action around here as far as wars. Just up the street is Cuckoo Tavern where Jack Jouett rode in when warning about the British. There's also Frederick's Hall where Thomas Jefferson, George A Custer and more dignitaries were known to have stayed the night. We may be able to dig close to there soon. Its very close to RR tracks and who knows who else may have stayed there. We are located in a triangle between Richmond, Charlottesville and Fredericksburg so it's a prime digging area, but most is off limits as its historical and forbidden to dig for artifacts.