Secret Cellar (buried?)

[88Teo88]

Dear Forum
I'm a new boy and I have never used a metal detector yet, but the story... when I repaved the sidewalk,
I noticed a wooden lintel under the terrace, at the same point where there is the door, just 1 meter lower, and I noticed an air vent about a metre and a half behind the basement and about where this cellar could be, the ground had sunk a little bit there, that's why I could see the lintel, and this cellar is/was under the kitchen,

There are many stories about my house, this house was built in 1936 and the first owner was Jewish, the second is a banker, who rebuilt this house, added the current basement and + 2 rooms and the front terrace, the back terrace was built by the next owner, there is/was the entrance of the cellar under the back terrace

but what matters is the first Jewish owner and the banker, the first Jewish law was in 38 here and the deportation in 44, and I think in 45 the communist already took this house from the banker, but the next owner after the banker already didn't know about this cellar (I could talk him), who built the back terrace

so which metal detector is good for finding out if there is (under the kitchen) gold there?

Thank you so much

Ps:
ohh... other question, this little town is more than 2000 years old, and there is an old destroyed temple, built by Templars, and there is a story that it has catacombs, but no one has been down yet, because the catacombs started from a grave and collapsed 5 metres later, and I read that metal detectors can also be used as ground radar, possibly to scan the tunnels

Thank you again, Teo

 

[SeabeeRon]

Interesting...which country is this in?

Welcome to the Forum!

 

[too_pointer]

Welcome, and thanks for the good story, sounds awesome
too_

 

[EmuDetector]

Welcome.

If I'm reading this right you want to detect gold from well above a cellars floor height?

If that's tracking right, you'd probably need to look into the world of ground penetrating devices above what a normal "metal detector" is.

If it were me, I'd probe the ground to figure if the cellar seems to exist, then look into boring a hole down with a drill wide enough to throw a sewer scope into. It would be easier and cheaper than a gpr. Plus, you'd see what's actually there.

 

[88Teo88]

Interesting...which country is this in?

Welcome to the Forum!

Thank you
Hungary

Welcome, and thanks for the good story, sounds awesome
too_

Thank you

Welcome.

If I'm reading this right you want to detect gold from well above a cellars floor height?

If that's tracking right, you'd probably need to look into the world of ground penetrating devices above what a normal "metal detector" is.

If it were me, I'd probe the ground to figure if the cellar seems to exist, then look into boring a hole down with a drill wide enough to throw a sewer scope into. It would be easier and cheaper than a gpr. Plus, you'd see what's actually there.

Thank you
Yes, you are correct, I drew a picture of it, I think the red lines could be the cellar, next to the basement, but I think a GPR can't show the metals, can it? but the shapes in the ground, that's why I thought the detector would be better, but maybe it can't go that deep, like if you have a two-storey house, and you want to detect the gold on the ground floor from the first floor

 

[EmuDetector]

Yeah I don't think you'll get a reading that deep and you'll also deal with a ton of interference from the home. If I turn any of mine on in the house, they go wild.

If I was serious about it, I think I would find a spot I could drill a hole and throw a camera in.

 

[Doug Down]

I used to live in half an old pub in England, and one day a friend asked if I'd ever been down into the cellar? I didn't know I even had one but he asked be to come outside the front of the old place. Two brick 'slopes' leaned against the front wall, which I'd always taken to be supports for the frame. Nope, in reality they were on either side of a 'barrel store' entrance! I went into the living room and sure enough, found a hollow-sounding spot beneath my bookcase. Taking up the flooring revealed just a solid concrete 'screen'. Going out to the front again, I broke a little bit of the concrete there, which had large flints in it. Taking it back further I found mud and bricks, with some Victorian glassware and ceramics. I called a friend over who was a builder, to bring me back to earth and away from all the visions I was having of treasure down there! He told me it was probably filled in for a reason, and to clear it would cost a great deal of money. Having that void beneath the cottage, down to a likely earth floor, would likely cause all sorts of damp issues and personally, he wouldn't chance it. I did try and drill inside to go with the camera idea, but it wasn't easy. It was so solid under there and in retrospect, I was probably being stopped by some stone steps. A question to ask yourself is if you did have a hoard to stash, would you really put it out of your own reach too? I would just take a panel off by the fireplace and stick it where I could get to it quickly, rather than down in the sealed-off depths. Of course, your curiosity might get the better of you and you just have to get to the bottom of it, literally. But I would urge caution, for sure.