What are detector cairns?

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	What are detector cairns? « on: April 13, 2012, 11:15:04 am »

Some detertorist leave their junk or a part of the junk they find in a little pile by a tree or in some other exposed location where it will be seen. The cairns or 'carns' have an ancient origin.

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see this link for their history. They are left behind to tell the next person that comes along 'Hey! I was here and this is what I found!" Arrowhead collectors are notorious cairn builders. They pick up broken points, chips and flakes and scrapers and core stones as they hunt and them leave them by the gate when they exit. Occasionally they will include something personal like a cigarette lighter or just curious like a fossil or strange rock which they found.

In the desert southwest near the big bend of the Rio Grande where rock piles are the rule not the exception, I came across a cairn built from sticks stacked in a campfire like pattern with a rock circle around their base.

Today after hunting for an hour I came across a detectorist's cairn. Tomorrow I'll post a picture of it. gambol

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	Re: What are detector cairns? « Reply #1 on: April 13, 2012, 11:41:11 am »

Kinda cool and yet sorta bad.

I like finding them because like a Indian Mailbox it tell you things.

Unfortunately it adds fuel to the fire the Anties have for us.

Like a Indian Mailbox , the tell you what was going on , to be had, or what there is to use.

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	Re: What are detector cairns? « Reply #2 on: April 13, 2012, 12:51:24 pm »

Homefire, what is an "indian mailbox"?

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	Re: What are detector cairns? « Reply #3 on: April 13, 2012, 04:16:42 pm »

Here in the south west New Mexico, Indians would leave goodies in a small pile by places of Water, Shelter and stuff.

They would leave as a Good Gesture, Arrow heads, Small tools and stuff.

Indicators or good stuff to be found close by.

This was a Good Karma type thing to help those behind them.

Just to let others know what they found to help them out.

Points made of stuff that could be had there, Tools that could be had, some goodies like Seeds of plants for food and weird stuff.

I've found at least 20 here. Sorta like a Yami Mark but for REAL! Cool

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	Re: What are detector cairns? « Reply #4 on: April 13, 2012, 07:15:02 pm »

cool, I had heard the term but never knew what it was about. I guess that is a sort of cairn. Great

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	Re: What are detector cairns? « Reply #5 on: April 14, 2012, 07:21:10 am »

Here is the cairn left by some unknown detectorist at the new site and a picture of the site. I went back to the site late yesterday evening and found another 85 cents mostly in dimes and pennies, no more electronics or other interesting goodies. Next trip I'll use the 5" coil and look at some of the mixed signal targets.

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	Re: What are detector cairns? « Reply #6 on: June 19, 2012, 08:38:38 pm »

I don't leave cairns in town.....but out in the boonies, I will leave cairns because I don't want either myself or another swinger to have to deal with that particular trash again and there is too much of it to haul out. I prefer to add to existing dumps or to place my cairn on something that can't possibly have a signal under it.

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	Re: What are detector cairns? « Reply #7 on: June 19, 2012, 09:41:56 pm »

Used to go up about 400 miles north of Toronto canoeing and would always find tinder stashes, matches, etc left at campsites for the next guy. Always nice to hit a site on a rainy evening and find a batch of dry tinder left by the last folks!!

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	Re: What are detector cairns? « Reply #8 on: June 20, 2012, 10:18:06 pm »

Same here B.A. I check the area first then leave it between two trees. Up next to a stone post or on top of an old house slab. Someplace where the next guy won't have to move it.

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Mudflap, I hear you, when I hiked the Appalachian trail in North Carolina it rained all week and sterno was all I had for heat or to cook on until I found a wrapped bundle of kindling someone had left hanging in a tree. I don't know if it was left there on purpose or by accident but it was sure welcome. You get sick of smelling sterno pretty quick when you are cooking inside your tent. ...I also learned something that they didn't teach me in Boy Scouts or the Army. Polyethylene plastic sheet is the best thing to use as a substitute for dry wood. Old bread wrappers, ziploc bags, coke bottles, anything made out of thin polyethelyne will burn relatively smoke free with very little fumes even if it has been rained on all day. I wadded the plastic up in balls and burned it in a tuna can. It started out slow but after the plastic melts and runs down in the can it burns like candle wax. A lot less smell than the sterno and I didn't have to carry it out with me. gambol

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