Incredible Metal Detecting Discoveries: True Stories of Amazing Treasures Found by Everyday People by Mark D Smith
Authors: Mark D Smith
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Monument. It is protected and of course
metal detecting the battlefield is out of the question, but in May of
1984 an archaeological group armed with metal detectors set out to
discover what really happened during this bloody battle. I don't know
about you, but I don't know if I would want to dig up anything at a
site like this.
Image
courtesy of 1025wil
Here is
what Last Stand Hill looks like today
The dig proved to be very
helpful. Over 600 artifacts were discovered during the initial
searches. Most of the artifacts were bullets, shells and slugs, but
one woman found something a little on the creepy side.
Her metal detector made a
promising signal. The signal meant there was a piece of gold directly
under her coil. She quickly recovered the object. It was a ring, but
there was something inside the ring. In the middle of the ring was a
finger bone that belonged to the ring's owner.
Once the bloody battle was
over, squaws from the main Indian camp were sent to the battlefield
where they hunted down the mortally wounded soldiers. The remaining
soldiers suffered greatly at the hands of the squaws. The Indian
squaws were known to slowly torture the survivors. One of their
preferred methods of torture was cutting off a soldier's fingers one
at a time.
Yes, I can easily say that
I would not want to be the person who recovered that ring with the
finger bone still attached!
I could not obtain rights
to a picture of this horrid find, but it can be found on the Internet
if you want to do a little searching yourself.
Isle Haute
In the early 1700s, piracy
was in full swing. Ships sailing with any sort of wealth were fair
game, and many a ship was destroyed in the name of greed and gold.
There are plenty of pirate legends out there, but one pirate by the
name of Captain Edward Low just might be one of the craziest pirates
that ever lived. Sociopath and psycho might as well have been this
guy's middle names. He was nuts, and he liked to brutally murder
anyone in his path.
Captain Ed started his
pirate days at the bottom of the rung when he and twelve other crew
members were cast aside after a failed mutiny attempt. Ed tried to
shoot his commanding officer in the face, but somehow missed. Not a
very good way to start off as a pirate is it?
Ed and his entire crew
were set adrift in the ocean with no food and water. This was
basically a death sentence, but Captain Ed and his crew of 12 managed
to capture an entire ship, kill the captain and take over. This was
Ed's first taste of piracy success. He liked what he was doing and it
was not long until he had created quite a nasty reputation for
himself. I won't even list the things he did to people in this book.
His atrocities were sick and evil.
During his years of
pillaging and plundering any ship in his path, he amassed quite an
amount of treasure. Like any good pirate, Ed needed a place to hide
his treasure. The hiding place would have to be the closest thing to
hell on earth, and he found it in a little island located in the Bay
of Fundy. The island was called Isle Haute.
The shore of this spit of
land was only accessible a couple hours each day. The island had a
vicious tide cycle where the water rose and fell over 50 feet with
each tide change. These tidal movements are said to be the strongest
in the entire world.
To make things even worse,
this little island had cliffs over 300 feet tall and a thick
population of over 30 different spider species. This was not the
average spider hanging in the corner type of population. This was the
ground crunching underneath your feet as you walked on spider after
spider population. This is an island that time forgot. This sounded
like the perfect place for mean old Captain Ed to hide his vast
amounts of loot.
Captain Ed was successful
at hiding his gold on the island, but he was never successful at
retrieving it. Eventually he was captured and hung for his crimes of
the high seas. His unclaimed treasure was said to be haunted
metal detecting the battlefield is out of the question, but in May of
1984 an archaeological group armed with metal detectors set out to
discover what really happened during this bloody battle. I don't know
about you, but I don't know if I would want to dig up anything at a
site like this.
Image
courtesy of 1025wil
Here is
what Last Stand Hill looks like today
The dig proved to be very
helpful. Over 600 artifacts were discovered during the initial
searches. Most of the artifacts were bullets, shells and slugs, but
one woman found something a little on the creepy side.
Her metal detector made a
promising signal. The signal meant there was a piece of gold directly
under her coil. She quickly recovered the object. It was a ring, but
there was something inside the ring. In the middle of the ring was a
finger bone that belonged to the ring's owner.
Once the bloody battle was
over, squaws from the main Indian camp were sent to the battlefield
where they hunted down the mortally wounded soldiers. The remaining
soldiers suffered greatly at the hands of the squaws. The Indian
squaws were known to slowly torture the survivors. One of their
preferred methods of torture was cutting off a soldier's fingers one
at a time.
Yes, I can easily say that
I would not want to be the person who recovered that ring with the
finger bone still attached!
I could not obtain rights
to a picture of this horrid find, but it can be found on the Internet
if you want to do a little searching yourself.
Isle Haute
In the early 1700s, piracy
was in full swing. Ships sailing with any sort of wealth were fair
game, and many a ship was destroyed in the name of greed and gold.
There are plenty of pirate legends out there, but one pirate by the
name of Captain Edward Low just might be one of the craziest pirates
that ever lived. Sociopath and psycho might as well have been this
guy's middle names. He was nuts, and he liked to brutally murder
anyone in his path.
Captain Ed started his
pirate days at the bottom of the rung when he and twelve other crew
members were cast aside after a failed mutiny attempt. Ed tried to
shoot his commanding officer in the face, but somehow missed. Not a
very good way to start off as a pirate is it?
Ed and his entire crew
were set adrift in the ocean with no food and water. This was
basically a death sentence, but Captain Ed and his crew of 12 managed
to capture an entire ship, kill the captain and take over. This was
Ed's first taste of piracy success. He liked what he was doing and it
was not long until he had created quite a nasty reputation for
himself. I won't even list the things he did to people in this book.
His atrocities were sick and evil.
During his years of
pillaging and plundering any ship in his path, he amassed quite an
amount of treasure. Like any good pirate, Ed needed a place to hide
his treasure. The hiding place would have to be the closest thing to
hell on earth, and he found it in a little island located in the Bay
of Fundy. The island was called Isle Haute.
The shore of this spit of
land was only accessible a couple hours each day. The island had a
vicious tide cycle where the water rose and fell over 50 feet with
each tide change. These tidal movements are said to be the strongest
in the entire world.
To make things even worse,
this little island had cliffs over 300 feet tall and a thick
population of over 30 different spider species. This was not the
average spider hanging in the corner type of population. This was the
ground crunching underneath your feet as you walked on spider after
spider population. This is an island that time forgot. This sounded
like the perfect place for mean old Captain Ed to hide his vast
amounts of loot.
Captain Ed was successful
at hiding his gold on the island, but he was never successful at
retrieving it. Eventually he was captured and hung for his crimes of
the high seas. His unclaimed treasure was said to be haunted
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