HUNTING CACHE'S

[on-edge]

has ony one here ever found any cache's,in or around cellar holes?,i've searched plenty a cellar hole,or at least the outer grounds area,i've rarely gone down inside to search,maybe 4 times in 11 years.seems like a cache was most unlikely,so i would just search the outer grounds for single coins.but now after reading about cache hunting on some other internet sites,i'm thinking i should have been searching inside the holes and walls right along(i didn't have cache on the noggin but now i do)i did once find a canning jar bank,but it was on the out side of the cellar hole about 15-20'feet away and it was standing straight up about 10"inches down to the top of the zinc lid and (withdrawel already been made) "empty"! so long story even longer,has any one had any luck finding caches in or around cellar holes?

 

[coinnut]

Cache's around old cellar holes are rare, but not impossible. Here's how I look at it. If the owners move, they take it with them. If their house burns down, then they sift through it for all valuables (as they are preparing to rebuild). If they die, then others come in and search for hidden money, since everyone hid theirs somewhere in the house. Also they salvage larger hearth or entrance stones. So other's poked around quite often. So how do others find them? Maybe some are smarter than the average person and hide them better than behind a loose stone. Or did the people that find them, really find them in the holes? Would you give your cache secrets to everyone on the web to use? Let's say you found them in the cornerstone of the wall by the barn. And it happened again and again. Would you tell everyone that secret? Probably not. You may spend your time in 1000 holes before you find a small 30 coin cache, or you can improve your detecting skills and slowly piece together a large collection. Don't get me wrong, search the holes if you can, but don't loose any sleep over the ones you didn't do in the past. But if you find the secret to cache hunting, we all expect you to post it HH.

 

[GRAY GHOST]

hi on-edge, iv'e had the privelege twice of finding hidden caches. the first contained 38 wheat cents from 1920's thru 1940's, all p's, and 2 silver ww2 nickels, in a small rusted away metal box. the second was more substantial: a 1945p quarter, 4 rosies, and 36 wheats from the 1940's and 50's, in a small canning jar, along with the remains of what might have been a baseball card. i found them both near the entrances to the cellars. it was interesting, to say the least. but caches do exist, and from what i hear in the oddest places. as much as i dislike digging mason or ball jar lids, it gets my attention real quick, and i make sure to double check the hole. good luck, and hh,

 

[mattockman]

I have been thru this myself......so I was checking all around the cellar and rock walls around house and BINGO!.....in between some rocks in the wall was a great silver sound......found a Balls canning jar with zinc lid on and yes it was empty......but had a nice jar with zinc lid!!! I dream also of the Cache's....

 

[mattockman]

Yeah I agree.....and if you find a cellar hole that the house burnt down and the remains are still in the cellar.....all you will find under the mattresses will be staples.......oh...wait..did they have girlie mags back then? ......but seriously folks....I found a burnt cellar hole and did find a cache of sort......I eye spyed a small picky bush circle in the middle of the field and searched it knowing it is a good indication for a dump......I walked in carefully and noticed I was standing on something....pulled the tangled grass apart and viola.....a pile of old NH vehicle plates dating from 1914-1919...all were porclin plates......7 total......now that is a cache ain't it?

 

[JAKETHESNAKE]

Hello. I once thought that I had found a cache. My house was built in 1933 I hadn't had my MD very long I was in the backyard one day by a big cottenwood tree when I kept getting a high VDI +94 on my MXT. So thinking it might be a silver coin I got excited and started digging about a nine inches down I seen there was glass as I kept digging I found three glass jars all standing upright on some kind of cooking pan. But my story doesn't have the happy ending you read about in the books there wasn't one red cent in that hole. It seemed to be they had already took there cache and only left the jars and pan. But it was fun and I'll keep looking maybe next time..

 

[on-edge]

coinnut thanks,yea your probably right if i stray to far from my regular detecting,i'd be spending all my time looking for the needle in the hay stack,i think from now on though i'm going to try to set some time aside to jump down there and do some quick scans of the walls and floors,just in case! nothig to serious though some of these holes have a lot of debris in them,fallen trees ,leaves,rocks,trash ,etc.this would take some time.of course i'd share pictures and posts but just no divy's.coinnut thanks again for your response,some good thoughts!!!! hh!

 

[on-edge]

hey gray ghost what luck two caches! thats amazing there's nothing like a good success story to get you going! heck i'm finding all the other stories (mattockman,and jakes) about finding the empty banks very interesting to,i know what its like, one minute your stoked( hey i found a bank!) next minute your( just my luck its empty!!) these stories are great keep em coming,its good to hear what people used to use for banks it gives you some kind of sense of what to look for.

mattockman old liscence plates used to be porcelin? cool i didn't know i've seen some pretty creative things done with them though,sounds like a cache to me,i know you said the plates were nh plates,were they found in nh? just curious.

thanks for all the great responces,keep em coming!

 

[mattockman]

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