Detecting graveyards

[sandyfeet]

No to graveyards...Family members may have placed sentimental things in the ground over the grave...they are meant to stay there.

[bdahunter]

I don't think it does, desecrating a gravesite is disrespectful in the extreme. The Egyptians are still up in arms over the opening of tombs and pyramids and the extraction of mummies. Archeology has always been associated with grave robbing but they do a good job of hiding behind the veil of science. I'm just finishing a book on Heinrich Schliemann and his excavations at Troy and Mycenae where he looted burial crypts. The book was written in the 1950's when archeology was definitely a pseudoscience having moved away from bored aristocrats and graverobbers to academia, no punches are pulled - It Was All About the Gold!
Bear in mind that flooding and frost will lift coffins close to the surface and even disinter them so you could be detecting a gold wedding ring that is still attached to a boney hand if you choose to detect in a graveyard.

Too Creepy For Me,

BDA