What defines a Cache or Spill?

[CincinnatiKid]

A recent thread declared 13 wheat cents unearthed in one hole to be a cache.
Others disagreed, to say it's a spill.
I believe objects of value, when "purposely" hidden for future use, constitute a cache.
Whether it be HotWheels hidden from a sibling in the 70s, recent Banner finds of silver n gold, or 13 Wheaties, each is a cache.
Peace ✌

 

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[Steve Ia]

My opinion is a cache is hidden on purpose, to be retrieved at a later time. A spill is dropped by accident. I found a row of six Indian head pennies at an old one room schoolhouse on a hillside. I believed that to be a spill.

 

[Jason in Enid]

You got it right, a cache is put there on purpose, a spill is and accidental loss of multiple items in the same spot.

I think that 13 coins in the same hole is very likely a cache (even if it's a kid's cache), as it would be pretty hard to drop that much in one spot without SOMEONE seeing it and picking it up.

 

[austin]

They are both a crapload of coins, hidden or dropped...

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I once found 18 quarters - in a nice horizontal stack. No evidence of a paper coin roll but I assume that it was a partial coin roll. Not a cache - just a chance drop in the middle of a town park.

Sure made my lunch-break!

 

[woodrat]

Well when I found the 13 wheats I sure thought cache

 

[Limitool]

A cache here in Middle Tennessee is when you've dug up 5-10 old iron horseshoes and SUDDENLY you see something small and round at the bottom of the hole. You carefully get it out only to discover it's an old thick washer or nut from an old horse drawn wagon. I still haven't found a cache with my MD but when I find that elusive "golden horseshoe" you all will HEAR ME!!! And a single coin will definitely be a cache. And all these horseshoes are definitely a spill. I think a blacksmith strewed these shoes out just to piss me off 150 years ago.

Spill.... 10,000 horseshoes!!!!
Cache... 1 single coin!!!!

Just humor me folks....

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

You got it right, a cache is put there on purpose, a spill is and accidental loss of multiple items in the same spot.

I think that 13 coins in the same hole is very likely a cache (even if it's a kid's cache), as it would be pretty hard to drop that much in one spot without SOMEONE seeing it and picking it up.

Its sad, but I find Bum Caches all the time..Once i found a whole roll of pennies lined up, the paper was long gone, but sure enough, it was 50 pennies

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

LOL!

I know where you're coming from. My property is where old farm equipment came to die. I have an entire horse-drawn cultivator I dug - plus not only the tips from broken tines but extra tines I have excavated. And buckets of iron "cornflakes" the size of my hand. So far - 11¢ (one dime and one cent - both from the 1980's). And about 12 pounds of shotgun slugs. One definite slug cache where a log or stump must have been that was fired into but later removed.

 

[Limitool]

LOL!

I know where you're coming from. My property is where old farm equipment came to die. I have an entire horse-drawn cultivator I dug - plus not only the tips from broken tines but extra tines I have excavated. And buckets of iron "cornflakes" the size of my hand. So far - 11¢ (one dime and one cent - both from the 1980's). And about 12 pounds of shotgun slugs. One definite slug cache where a log or stump must have been that was fired into but later removed.

I hear ya Charlie... We both know what a spill and a cache is... but I swear a single coin at this time would be cache for me. Sound like you have experience digging old iron also... Need some horseshoes or old iron chain links? Just come on down to my Tennessee woods and old road.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Thanks - I'll pass.

But I did dig a useable 15 ft logging chain that I find handy and the lead I re-melt for round balls in my muzzleloaders.

And if anyone wants to pay the postage . . .

 

[Msbeepbeep]

One of these days Limitool you will find those golden horseshoes!

I have found multiple pennies that because of being at the same depth and somewhat stacked I figured were a coin roll drop, and I have ran across a scattering of pennies in a 36X36" area a drop too.
Then 6 quarters and 2 dimes same hole a drop, but if it's wrapped in anything, buried next to a tree, etc. I would think it's a cache.