Natural or Man Made?

[Hal Croves]

A possible Google Earth search area based on comments made by EC. Mason.

 

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[GoDeep]

Geocache box perhaps? I stumbled upon one once just metal detecting in the crotch of a tree.

 

[GoDeep]

A possible Google Earth search area based on comments made by EC. Mason.

I searched on google earth, didn't come up with anything. There appears to be a small body of water there too. Shouldn't be impossible to spot.

 

[Hal Croves]

I am going to let my imagination go here.
I see a strongbox with its hasp (white arrow) and handle (red arrow).

A word of caution EC. Mason.
If that is something other than a wooden post, you had better know local law before disturbing it.

That doesn’t mean you can’t take pretty pictures.

 

[Hal Croves]

Geocache box perhaps? I stumbled upon one once just metal detecting in the crotch of a tree.

Possible.

Funny, I’ve been in this same scenario once before.

 

[Hal Croves]

I wonder if flood water is responsible for clearing this path and exposing whatever it is that we are looking at?
Powell County suffered historic levels last March.

EC. Mason - metadata is a tricky thing.

Cheers!

 

[Doubter in MD]

Geocache box perhaps? I stumbled upon one once just metal detecting in the crotch of a tree.

Possible.

Funny, I’ve been in this same scenario once before.

I've been caching for years, although not too much lately. It looks like a typical ammo box geocache to me and if it is, it was placed to bring people to this spot. So, natural or otherwise, someone placed that cache to bring people there to see it.

 

[Hal Croves]

I've been caching for years, although not too much lately. It looks like a typical ammo box geocache to me and if it is, it was placed to bring people to this spot. So, natural or otherwise, someone placed that cache to bring people there to see it.

In that same hole is a protruding stick that is similar in shape to quarter round, so perhaps.
Why wouldn’t the photographer take the box?

I have never geocached.

 

[Doubter in MD]

In that same hole is a protruding stick that is similar in shape to quarter round, so perhaps.
Why wouldn’t the photographer take the box?

I have never geocached.

A couple of thoughts come to mind. It is possible the photographer didn't notice it although if it is a cache the last person who found it did a lousy job of (re)concealing it. It's also possible that the photographer was a cacher and visited the site while looking for/finding the cache but the OP said the photographer had previously owned the property so maybe not.

In addition, caches are typically marked as such with writing on the container or in the log book that is kept inside the cache. Most people who find caches accidentally usually just sign the log book and replace the cache.


EDIT: I don't know why, but I was having trouble accessing/enlarging the photos. Now that I have, I still think it's a geocache, but I'm not quite as sure as I was initially.

 

[Tinhorn2]

I thought road but each rock is bigger than I thoufht, like 100 lb rocks

 

[Hal Croves]

A couple of thoughts come to mind. It is possible the photographer didn't notice it although if it is a cache the last person who found it did a lousy job of (re)concealing it. It's also possible that the photographer was a cacher and visited the site while looking for/finding the cache but the OP said the photographer had previously owned the property so maybe not.

In addition, caches are typically marked as such with writing on the container or in the log book that is kept inside the cache. Most people who find caches accidentally usually just sign the log book and replace the cache.


EDIT: I don't know why, but I was having trouble accessing/enlarging the photos. Now that I have, I still think it's a geocache, but I'm not quite as sure as I was initially.

A self doubting doubter.

Ha!

 

[KY Hiker]

Wow, so much interest in these pictures!
E.C. Mason is not the kind of person, as I know of him, to mislead intentionally...my betting money is on this being a creek bed or adjacent to a creek bed. This area and the Red River in general sees large scale flooding periodically, the scraps of lumber were probably deposited there by water...I wouldn't think someone would geocash on private property. Do to the attractions of the neighboring Red River Gorge and Natural Bridge State Park I fail to see why anyone would venture onto private land to place a cache? Maybe I just have a different mindset though? So many (literally hundreds) of natural arches to place caches at in that region...

 

[Garscale]

Well...e.c. Mason needs to look under that tree asap.

 

[Hal Croves]

Well...e.c. Mason needs to look under that tree asap.

EC. Mason’s friend no longer owning that property should be a problem for him.
Quite a pickle.

 

[Hal Croves]

Wow, so much interest in these pictures!
E.C. Mason is not the kind of person, as I know of him, to mislead intentionally...my betting money is on this being a creek bed or adjacent to a creek bed. This area and the Red River in general sees large scale flooding periodically, the scraps of lumber were probably deposited there by water...I wouldn't think someone would geocash on private property. Do to the attractions of the neighboring Red River Gorge and Natural Bridge State Park I fail to see why anyone would venture onto private land to place a cache? Maybe I just have a different mindset though? So many (literally hundreds) of natural arches to place caches at in that region...

Certainly reassuring to read your thoughts about EC. Mason.
A person with the location could cause quite a circus down there.

Hopefully trespass isn’t typical of geocaching.

 

[Garscale]

Certainly reassuring to read your thoughts about EC. Mason.
A person with the location could cause quite a circus down there.

Hopefully trespass isn’t typical of geocaching.

I just dont know why you are sure it's a geocache.

 

[GoDeep]

You'll be looking forever in Kentucky as it's in Europe ;-)

 

[Hal Croves]

I just dont know why you are sure it's a geocache.

I never wrote that I was “sure” of anything, especially anything involving geocaching. I’ve never done it.

If it’s not a post, what I describe as a wooden box can be identified and dated. The hasp, if that’s what it is, looks more like the routed hand grips typically found on either side of a wooden box. Confusing because it looks like it has side handles, at least one, as well.

 

[Garscale]

I never wrote that I was “sure” of anything, especially anything involving geocaching as I’ve never done it.

If it’s not a post, what I describe as a wooden box can be identified and dated. The hasp, if that’s what it is, looks more like the routed hand grips typically found on either side of a wooden box. Confusing because it looks like it has side handles, at least one, as well.

I think you are correct that there is something interesting under that tree. Looks like a box with handles to me.

 

[Hal Croves]

You'll be looking forever in Kentucky as it's in Europe ;-)

The lad in those photos certainly looks of fine Irish stock.
Reads like your on to something.