Cemetary- Oh Boy!

flyguy784 · Feb 24, 2017

Against my better judgement, we hunted a cemetery yesterday. This cemetery has to be 150 acres. Incorporated in 1855. At some point in it's history it's ownership was lost. Consequently no one maintained it for at least 70 years. A club was organized and they're trying to bring it back to it's former glory. A club member approached us about going in there and trying to locate bronze plaques, markers etc. It is totally overgrown. Like you wouldn't believe. We were told that anything we found, we could keep if we wanted. With the exception of the a fore mentioned markers etc. of course. We decided ahead of time that the only items we'd keep would be coin drops.
Now bare in mind, I have no problems with the deceased. It doesn't spook us out or anything. In fact, as we passed by the numerous overturned, overgrown monuments I for one found myself greeting those poor souls who's graves had been so neglected. It was a very moving experience. Well, we found three bronze markers, one casket handle and a half dozen buried markers.
As far as coins go, two 1800's toasted coppers, many wheat's, a 1919s Merc and a hand full of clad. We did however find a human femur. The result of grave robbers, moving previously buried bodies, we don't know. We obviously turned it in.
To say the least, it was an unusual hunt. We've been invited back, and will gladly help them locate these treasured markers.

Ricki7 · Feb 24, 2017

Now that is a interesting hunt . You say no hands reached out from the grave trying to pull you under ? When you dug the silver , did you suffer a lightning strike shattering your MD ? When you got home , did you find out your wife left you and took the kids ? You must have suffered some bad Karma , like a IRS audit notice . That bone you found was probably someone so upset they pushed through the ground . We will know the truth if your post suddenly stop. :grin:

HAppy grave yard desecration Hunting ! :grin:

Mud-puppy · Feb 24, 2017

and Away we go! :laughing:

In your defense..(Which you will be needing) I know a guy personally who woulda probably kept that Femur bone and made a walking stick or a knife handle out of it...He certainly woulda kept that casket handle and probably screwed it on his car hood top... :laughing:

NectarDetector · Feb 24, 2017

When used properly detectors are some amazing tools!

Vermonster · Feb 24, 2017

Mud-puppy said:

I don't think there will much in the "get your popcorn" discussion here Mud. He was asked to help out, and sounds like he did so respectfully.....

NectarDetector · Feb 24, 2017

Vermonster said:
I don't think there will much in the "get your popcorn" discussion here Mud. He was asked to help out, and sounds like he did so respectfully.....

Mud is just hungry!

Vermonster · Feb 24, 2017

NectarDetector said:
Mud is just hungry!

Figures...... :lol:

Mud-puppy · Feb 24, 2017

Vermonster said:
I don't think there will much in the "get your popcorn" discussion here Mud. He was asked to help out, and sounds like he did so respectfully.....

Yeah!..after a while on this Planet, we have all been asked to 'help out' by somebody...either hide a body, move a body, or find one, or make one,...I dont have a problem whatsoever with the OPs post...and it certainly IS a Brave thing for him to lay out here!

What is coming along is all the various "Optics damaging the Sport" the general Public may construe by seeing a detectorist out hunting in a boneyard...I got no problem with how the OP did it...just sitting back to enjoy the normal boneyard onslaught on a cold and rainy Friday afternoon!... :laughing:

Pulling up Randy Travis' smash hit single..."Digging up Bones" on youtube right now!! Its Hilarious taken in this context! :laughing:

Oh gosh i love this place! :laughing:

flyguy784 · Feb 24, 2017

Well I appreciate your concern. Honestly, it's so overgrown, the "public" doesn't even know we're there. We would have never set foot on sacred ground unless we were requested by the good people who work so hard to restore it. We're helping with that. We were told there's 100's of missing plaques and numerous bronze statuary lost to time. I would suspect that the families of these missing plaques would much prefer to have them rediscovered and placed in their rightful location.
We know where our hearts are in this endeavor and are good with it. As far as the onslaught, bring it on. It means nothing to us what some twit in "wherever America" feels about this issue. They don't know us, the don't know the site or the situation. We're convinced that after we finish this endeavor, our finds elsewhere will increase dramatically. It's very interesting and I'm sure only good karma will come of it.
Case in point; when I got home from the first search, not only did my wife NOT leave me, she was sitting home in a cute teddy, holding a glass of my favorite bourbon and waving our winning lottery ticket. So much for that.

Mud-puppy · Feb 24, 2017

Hey! Right there with you 5x5! I'da been in there myself! Rooting around like a dmaned old Badger! Reverently of course...! :laughing:

You are the one who said.."Against my better Judgement" though! :laughing:

You gotta love the afterparty waiting at home too! We can all appreciate a gambler and an alcoholic graverobber who also is married to boot! Oh man are you lucky!! Get us some Pictures! With your gear leaning up against a tombstone! Bucket list to hunt a boneyard! Justify it any way you will so you can live with the damage you did to our Sport you braggart! :laughing:

BufordCityDawg · Feb 24, 2017

I would classify this as one of the RARE cases where a cemetery hunt was okay. You're doing good to help them recover the site.

BCD

flyguy784 · Feb 24, 2017

Why thank you Mr Buford, can't think of how else they'd find these buried plaques.

Valley Hunter · Feb 24, 2017

You were sorts hired as a job to find markers ..
Your pay was the lost stuff ..
To help the family looking for there lost relatives last resting place

Digger-Dave · Feb 24, 2017

BufordCityDawg said:
I would classify this as one of the RARE cases where a cemetery hunt was okay. You're doing good to help them recover the site.

BCD

100%!!
Permission and a mission was given out by the owners/care takers.

One of our other members also got permission last year to do something similar. Although he was working some outside wooded areas, the cemetery people asked him to be on the look out for "scattered" cemetery property.
No markers or related pieces were found.

Mud-puppy · Feb 24, 2017

I CANNOT believe this! Whats wrong with you people? Is nobody outraged? The guy was hunting in a boneyard! With a group no less!! Oh sure, "It was for a good cause!"

Thats like me firing coil up and wading into the burial pits of Gettysburg! Rooting around like a trufflepig to find my long lost ancestors belt buckle in order to give some peace to the Family? Damn! Is there no shame anymore? :laughing:

Where are the boundaries? Is nothing sacred? Deplorable I say!...Slippery Slope! 'Boneyarding' is now tolerated? Whats next? Doing a quick sweep for Titanium hip sockets in the ash pit at the crematorium?? I mean hey..that would be one hell of a walking cane handle though...

MrNovice · Feb 24, 2017

Hunting in a graveyard??? Do not pass go, straight to he// with you!

Just kidding. Sounds like you're overly justified. On a side note, I heard today was like National Witching Day or Witches Day or something. Watch out for hexes.

GKL · Feb 24, 2017

Watch the 1968 classic "Night of the Living Dead" before your next hunt there
and you might be looking over your shoulder at every sound :laughing:

ericp501 · Feb 24, 2017

yikes!

Mud-puppy · Feb 24, 2017

Digger-Dave said:
100%!!
Permission and a mission was given out by the owners/care takers.

One of our other members also got permission last year to do something similar. Although he was working some outside wooded areas, the cemetery people asked him to be on the look out for "scattered" cemetery property.
No markers or related pieces were found.

Yeah, but he never made a post about it did he? Besides, Cemetery caretaker people are very untrustworthy..as are all undertakers...They got it easy and take shortcuts all the time! Pull teeth, rob gold... Lots of instances where a Family is given a little zip lock baggie bag of Home Depot quikcrete in lieu of their loved ones cremains.......

Happens all the time..Just a few years ago, that one crematory guy in Georgia had like 200 stiffs sitting out in back of his house! It was like the DNC convention! I mean hey..Whos going to know or complain? That guy saved a fortune on the gas oven burn!...A kindred soul to the Global Warmists! Just stack the stiffs out back and bag up mortar...? Its the thought that counts..

flyguy784 · Feb 24, 2017

Well, it's not a care taker. It's a volunteer group of about 50 people that are trying to restore the whole cemetery before it's not even recognizable as a cemetery. They're clearing off all the brush, cutting down trees etc. We saw a half dozen headstones that were almost totally engulfed by large trees. It's a multi year project. Vandals have broken so many markers and monuments, it's truly insane.

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