World War II and Colonial History, Plus Geocache At Cellar Hole

[coinman123]

Hello guys! I thought it would be a nice day to go metal detecting, so I decided to check out a new cellar hole I found a mile away from my house. The woods and cellar hole look really nice, but unfortunately have a huge lack of any signals. The house only existed for a very brief time in the late 1700's, and only had one owner. The weird thing about this cellar hole is that there was almost no iron, even in the actual cellar hole. I decided to try metal detecting around an old doorstep stone, after not getting any signals anywhere else. I managed to find a button right next to it, then I moved over 10 feet along the edge of the cellar hole and found another. I then went to the woods around 20 feet away from the cellar hole, and found another button, identical in every way to the button I had just found before. I noticed an old well with a big aluminum sheet covering it, I removed the sheet to see a geocache box, made out of an old ammo box. I looked inside and saw mainly random stuff, including a stick, an old pack of Crayons, a "Class of 2002" pin and a moldy gumball. I started metal detecting again, after putting the box back where I found it, with the aluminum sheet on top of it. Around 20 feet away from the geocache I got a really nice signal under a small thin granite slab. I lifted up the rock and was a little surprised to see a giant 50 caliber bullet under it. I checked the headstamp, and saw that it said "DM 43", which I found out stands for the Des Moines Ordnance Plant, 1943. This type of bullet was used to shoot planes and tanks during WWII, so I am not sure what it is doing out at a cellar hole. There was a lot of military training done on this land in the 1940's, which might be why this bullet was lost here.



50 caliber bullet compared to a live 30-06 bullet I recently found on the surface on a hiking trail on my way to a cellar hole, and a dug live .22 bullet.

 

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[Brendan75]

Hi, nice finds.

 

[Westfront]

This .50 cal. had once a blue tip recognizable by the ring on the bullet above the casing. That means it is an incendiary tip. It's safe as long as you did not try to crush the tip. So be careful. Nice buttons, there will be some change close!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice relics! You did manage to pull three nice flat buttons...