Cache Hunting - Discovering A Hoard of Silver Hammered Coins (Story 14)
Misha's XLT had finally returned to normal, and Misha managed to find one more coin as well.
"Fish Scale" Number 22 Found by Misha
Finally all the coins that were available within the Explorer's detecting range in the ground had been recovered. The last signal, strong and non-ferrous, was the finale of the "hammereds' parade" and confirmed the hoard's presence at this spot one more time. As if I had expected to recover such a find, I was not even surprised when I dug up the 16th century Russian pectoral icon.
This relic, an "obereg" or cache-protector, was buried on top of the cache and had been protecting the treasure from being discovered since the hoard was buried more than 400 years ago.
A Cache-Protector
The damage on the icon was inflicted by the modern plow which hit it first, then caught the upper part of the coin stack many years ago. The subsequent plowings moved the cache-protector further away from the initial position and upward to the surface.
Russian Pectoral Brass Icon, circa 16th Century
Now we could see the shape of the coin-spread: it was oval. Because the imaginary line of the oval's longer axis was running at the angle to the line of plowing, the cache's core would be at either end of the oval.
This is What the "Coin-Spread" Looked Like
Obviously, in our case, the cache's core was buried at the oval's end which was opposite to the one at which the cache-protector had been discovered. Now it was our time to "party"! The daylight was almost gone - a perfect condition for our little "Dig-It-Out" party!
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