What's your most unusual or oddball find with a detector?
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You never know what you are going to find. I found a real good kids aluminum baseball ball bat in some 5 or 6 inch grass and a pair of throwing horse shoes about 2 inchs down in a horse shoe pitching area.
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<< <i>I found an old temperature gauge that went on the top of a car radiator. It had a glass front and a glass vial with what was probably alchohol in it like a thermometer. >>
I got one of those, once, and thought it was an oversized, fat pocket watch at first. Oddly, it was on the same site that produced my second-oldest coin, a 1738 halfpenny. I learned that the site, which had once been occupied by colonial British soldiers was later the site of a hunting lodge in the 1920s. That was the era the car radiator gauge was from.
Hmm... Oddball stuff... lots of that over the years.
My little apothecary weight from this spring was kind of oddball and interesting. Right near where Steve found a large cent. (Not the dog skeleton).
Actually, I can top that with another whatzit. But that story is worthy of its own thread, later.
I have heard of somebody finding an artificial leg, once. And another person finding... a metal detector!
I've found fifty- and sixty-year-old lipstick cases with lipstick still inside- which still smelled like lipstick. Of course, that isn't too unusual for longtime detectorists. And lipstick is some pretty durable stuff, as any bartender or drycleaner will tell you.
I once found one of those round brass plates that went on the grille of a car, like the old time auto clubs used to use (and I think some clubs still do, in Europe, I believe). But the thing about this particular plate was, it had a cross on it and said "MORTICIAN" in big letters!
The find itself was odd but not totally strange- however, some of the aftermath and postscript to the story is proving to be rather bizarre...
<< <i>metal bird tag placed on some sort of bird for tracking (and only the leg/claw was still attached - blegghh... not as bad as Steve's "rover find" though). >>
I'm a birder, so I'm wondering if you reported the bird band you found. It's not too late to do so if you didn't. Go to Bird Banding Lab Website and you can report it online or by phone. Every recovery of a band is extremely helpful - many bands are placed on birds, but not very many are ever recovered. You can also get a little certificate of appreciation when you report these bands which will tell you what species the band was placed on, when, and where. It's really cool. If you've still got it, I'd be interested to hear what you find out about it.
<< <i>Here's another weird find....it's an old syringe from a deserted hospital site. It used to have a glass cover, but it was long since gone when I found it.
GROSS, don't touch the inside.
ewwww...
1/4 the way to 1,000!
thanks Spock. Yes, I reported it. ...was the only logical thing to do.