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After Finding a Buried Chain, Mike Smith Unearthed a Dark Past

Digging in the Field

It was strange, though, because the further he walked away from the original “beep location,” the louder the machine beeped. He wondered if it was a machine malfunction or if there something was really something down there that took up the entire underbelly of the field. He grabbed his handy dandy shovel and set to work on the damp soil.

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He started with a hole around a foot wide and two feet deep. Mike had used his detector in that same spot before, where he dug up a few old pennies that weren’t worth a lot. But this time, he dug up something that wasn’t a type of coin or even the common animal bone. This was something else.