Maybe it's just American laziness for grunt labor, or reliance on bank vaults and technology but new generations just can't seem to accept that past generations would store their valuables deep underground.
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Who in their right mind would want to bury a large treasure shallow, if they had the opportunity & resources to conceal it deep underground, or under water??? Why wouldn't anyone, or any government, in their right mind conceive elaborate Booby traps, to protect their vaulted Treasures
Heck, we used to dig dirt cellars 20 feet underground just to store our canning goods, potatoes , etc. We would stay in the dirt cellar during storms. It was not uncommon to dig a cistern 30-40 feet deep by hand, to store water. Wells, were dug even deeper. We would dig an 8 foot deep hole just to set the outhouse over.
We dug up a wheel barrow buried 60 feet deep in North Carolina. We dug a Spanish alter and artifacts 30 feet deep in Texas. Gold Bars were recovered at 25 feet.
I was present when 5 locals dug a property owners cache of Gold coins in the Carribbean, 18 feet deep, at night using candle light.
I can cite at least 50 very deep Treasure Troves. I would consider 15-30 feet as reasonable depths for most major Troves buried in the U.S prior to 1860. I wish I could, but I haven't been able to Dowse very many Mom & Pop caches which would be within the depth limits of conventional metal detectors. Dell
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