Carl Grove
Justified & Ancient
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- Dec 14, 2014
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Connor, D.The S.O.P. for the correct and valuable recording of finds is to pick a location and scrape the whole selected area, centimeter by centimeter, until you locate anything. If, say, a bone or coin is found, then it's kept in place and cleaned around until it sits on top of it's own little pile of dirt. Photographs are taken, measurements (depth etc.) recorded and then the item is moved to be cleaned further and cataloged.
What shouldn't happen is that when your detector goes beep, you dig down until the metal fragment appears on your trowel. You've lost context. I don't watch the show, to be honest, so I don't know if the stars ... er ... searchers do this. I've always had a fascination with the Money Pit Mystery, and would be interested in a good and non-speculative history of it. So much of it has been lost over the decades - including potential clues - and makes a convincing solution unlikely
The Secret Treasure of Oak Island.
That is said to be the most objective account of the years prior to the current activity.