Unusual entertainment

[sigma]

There was a time when I did not have a job, it was boring, but it was a lot of free time. Just for fun I started studying the history of the area, where is my country house. And on one of the old maps, I saw that a long time on the territory of my modern area took rather large road. Naturally, I immediately went to the store for a metal detector And I can say it was not in vain. It turned out it is very gambling craze I shoveled the entire site and found a lot of very interesting antiques. It was a horseshoes, pectoral crosses, buttons, women's jewelry, rings, pots, still a lot of things are not very clear, and of course, coins. Total found 21 coins (which are well preserved). Most modern coin was in 1923. The oldest coin was a silver coin in 1692 (yes, yes! Seventeenth century! ) The antiquity of the other items I can not say anything, because I myself can not date them, and I did not make a special examination.

[Isaac]

Pics!

[Tunnelcat]

Show us your stash!

[sigma]

Of course, this is not a treasure, but for me it's expensive. (there is only a little of this)

[Tunnelcat]

Nice stash. Anything of value?

[Isaac]

Awesome stuff. I wonder if there are engravings of names of people they once belonged to. It'd be awesome to return something to a family that lost an item 90 years ago

[sigma]

... Anything of value?

tunnelcat, I never doubted that you sly pussycat. How did you know about that? =) Of course the most beautiful jewelry and coins I do not want to spread. They have a large enough value, and besides, it's too personal. These things can be discussed only with professionals.

[Krom]

Reminds me of something I found in a piece of turf that I was moving for the park department:



It is made out of copper, our local historian guy said it is probably between 3000-7000 years old.

[sigma]

And what of the park, if it's not a secret? I believe you just because I know that this is possible. Such cases often occur in Siberia, where the cliffs of the rivers you can regularly find such rarities as mammoths and household items and hunting prehistoric people of thawed permafrost and just lie on the surface of the river banks. But I thought, this is only possible in these circumstances. It is very interesting, Krom

[Sirius]

Permafrost is great for preserving things that in typical climates would not be preserved. Copper and stone artifacts are more durable than most things, though, so they have a good chance of showing up from time to time even where it's not so cold.

This was in the US, Krom? I seem to recall there were some Native American tribes that worked with copper, but it didn't strike me as being particularly common.

[Krom]

Northern Wisconsin, just came out of the ground near a river.

[Tunnelcat]

... Anything of value?

tunnelcat, I never doubted that you sly pussycat. How did you know about that? =) Of course the most beautiful jewelry and coins I do not want to spread. They have a large enough value, and besides, it's too personal. These things can be discussed only with professionals.

Well, I can understand that, especially in Russia. But you did answer the question. It wouldn't have been fun unless you found some really valuable things. How old are some of those coins you found? I also find it fascinating that you found so many metal crosses. I wonder why so many people lost them?

[sigma]

Well, I can understand that, especially in Russia. But you did answer the question. It wouldn't have been fun unless you found some really valuable things. How old are some of those coins you found? I also find it fascinating that you found so many metal crosses. I wonder why so many people lost them?

For me it was a pleasant surprise when I was told that in this pile of junk is really valuable things. But when I found them, I did not know their value. It was later I began to look for the value of each coin found on the Internet.
All of this was found in about four months. Then winter came, and then I found a new job. Dates on the coins, which can be a good look, located within the end of the seventeenth century - the beginning of the twentieth century.
Well, I think that people do not want to lose anything at all whatsoever, including money and crucifix. If so much was found on a fairly short stretch of the old road that used to pass through my land, I think this road has existed for a long time and the traffic on it is intense enough.
Now in different directions of this old road is a swamp, and in the other side of a large village.

[Tunnelcat]

What my neighbors here like to do here is drift boat down the Willamette River and look for large agate rocks in the gravel bars. My neighbor has found some that are the size of grapefruit. Huge for an agate. Once he polished them up, they looked gorgeous. Personally, I used to rock hunt when I was younger. Getting to old now to tramp around in the outback now. I've been all over the western U.S. looking for nice looking rocks and minerals. Some are quite stunning. I've even found some fire obsidian. It shines in rainbow colors in just the right light and is very prized for jewelry. I used to have an opal tree cast, which is a tree limb that has turned into opal. You could even see the tree rings in blue. But alas, I gave it to the Oregon State Geology department since I was tired of storing it. I did keep a softball sized geode that has purple quartz crystals inside with a small stack of brownish gold crystals built up in one side. I'm glad the slab saw I cut it open with missed that formation, or else it would have ruined that little stack of crystals. I'll take a picture of it and some of my other nice minerals when I can.

[sigma]

I have some beautiful rough stones, which presented me my friends who live in the northern Urals. There's so full of this stuff. I especially like amethysts. By the way, recently one of my colleagues at work her boyfriend gave her a diamond ring 1 carat. Well, it's really beautiful, but it's still not worth 13.5 thousand dollars, in my opinion. But given that she married him after that, probably, it was worth it Despite the fact that I am quite indifferent to the ownership of stones, however, the stones that I have, I will never give them to the Oregon State Geology department (and any other museum).