Do you ever find treasure underground?

[mrodoc]

No pointers from here either: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/no-longer-just-famine-food-and-the-fish-of-deathSeems to confirm what I thought.

 

[pwhole]

A limpet mine, eh?

 

[mikem]

Oysters were food for the masses in times past

 

[cavemanmike]

It's ridiculous how much I am enjoying this thread. It's the word 'treasure' and finding it....am a bit disappointed no one has posted a photo of a treasure chest full of gold coins they found underground 😁

How about this

 

[Leclused]

In one of my first dicoveries if found some pottery and 2 pewter dishes. The dishes were dated 1550-1650 and they were made (95% sure) in Huy - Belgium. Pewter dishes are rare they said because when an pewter dish was no longer used or damaged they were melted to make new things with the pewter. Probably the cave was used as a dumpsite by the local farmers.

 

[mrodoc]

Oysters were food for the masses in times past

Oysters yes but have you ever tried limpet?

 

[mikem]

Oysters yes but have you ever tried limpet?

"Edible, formerly eaten extensively as shown by stone, bronze and ironage middens. Still eaten until relatively recently, especially during famine and hard times." - an unsuccessful shaft would mean they didn't have money to spare...

Common limpet (Patella vulgata) - MarLIN - The Marine Life Information Network

www.marlin.ac.uk

 

[The Old Ruminator]

Not treasure but slightly puzzling. We are excavating around a mine on the Quantock Hills probably about 5 miles from the coast as the crow flies. We have just been digging a pit about 50 metres from the mine shaft below the engine house and about 2 m below the base have found much broken pottery and, rather more surprising, numerous small limpet shells. Now these are two a penny in coastal middens but strange to find them on top of a hill in a wood! Any thoughts? People do eat limpets although God knows why. They are a menu item in Portugal and parts of Spain! Did the former mine workers eat them I wonder. Thought they would be eating something more substantial. The function of the pit is a bit of a mystery as the base seems to be solid rock. We are wondering if it was a pond for storing water for the engine house boiler nearby. Perhaps I need to post this on the mining forum but it doesn't pigeon hole well does it?

Mr O'Doc in the pit searching for limpets and clams but he only came up with a small winkle.

 

[royfellows]

Most of the money taken in the Great Train Robbery 1963 was never recovered. I have always wondered about this, it has to be somewhere.

 

[wormster]

"Edible, formerly eaten extensively as shown by stone, bronze and ironage middens. Still eaten until relatively recently, especially during famine and hard times." - an unsuccessful shaft would mean they didn't have money to spare...

Common limpet (Patella vulgata) - MarLIN - The Marine Life Information Network

www.marlin.ac.uk

A narrow paint scraper is the best thing to get limpets off a rock, But, you have to be quick otherwise the bloody things stick fast and even Mr 4 Pound Hammer won't detach them............

 

[kay]

A narrow paint scraper is the best thing to get limpets off a rock, But, you have to be quick otherwise the bloody things stick fast and even Mr 4 Pound Hammer won't detach them............

You can flick them off with a fingernail, but as you say, once they clamp down, nothing will shift them.