When you buy a metal detector, one of the main questions you have is: “Where to look for treasure”? Those. you need places for digging where you could use your metal detector. Well, of course, I would like to find something.

There are so many sources or search techniques.
Let's look at this issue.

Where could the treasure be located?

First, let's answer the question of where the treasure could be located.

One of these places is a village, village (settlement).
To be more specific, the treasure could be buried in the house - in the basement, or in your own barn, or in the garden. It could be where the fence is. (there are many cases where treasure was found under a fence post).
It could also be a ravine, near a populated area or a house.

Another place - fair. Of course, fairs were located near populated areas.
They traded at the fair... And in the place where the building, or shop, or tray was located, coins were buried.
There are also many cases of treasures being found on the site of former fairs.

Place of the inn, or next to the inn.
The tavern was usually located at the intersection of roads. Bookmarks were also often found here.

Tract. There are also treasures along the tract. True, all finds are more random in nature. But this does not exclude searching in these places.

Choosing a spot to dig

Thus, as we previously examined potential places where treasures could be located, it is worth paying attention to former villages (villages), taverns, hamlets, simply road intersections and old highways.

Those. we need to use the old map. Determine where the settlements were and check them.
This method of determining the place where to look for treasure can be said to be “direct”. And many people know about him. And that’s exactly what they do.

Thus, for treasure hunt we need old maps!

Take the old card. You arrive at the site of the former village (village). Localize the place where she was. Next, search with a metal detector.
But since many people use it, you may not be the first in this place.

However, there are limitations to this method. The fact is that maps began to be drawn up from the time of Peter I. Ie. We will not be able to capture an earlier period using this method.

Google Maps for finding treasure locations

Google Map allows you to view territories from space. These are pictures of the planet from space. What can you see special in such photographs?
Glades in the forest.
Those. a place cleared of trees and surrounded by them. But the forest is quickly occupying new areas. Those. Most likely the clearing is of artificial origin. And this is a potential method for searching.
Black earth.
Sometimes you can see black spots on the plowed ground. This is what allows us to conclude that there was once a settlement in this place. Those. this also needs to be checked.

This method allows you to identify potential places to search for treasure, and it does not have the same disadvantage as maps; it does not have a time limit when the map was compiled. Those. You can find sites of settlements earlier than 1700.

Messages from local residents

The best source of information is reports from local residents about potential places to look for treasures. This is exactly what our experience shows.
They talk about events that are often not described anywhere or are not reflected in maps. But Google's methods are not suitable, because... there is no arable land, or there has been no forest for a long time, or the settlement is so small that you simply won’t notice it from space, or there has never been anything there at all (settled area, fair, etc.)
This is the most valuable information, and it must be checked.

Other methods for determining potential treasure locations

Here we will talk about several options for finding places. They may be good or bad, but they exist, are used by search engines, and produce finds.

• Checking all fields

Quite a labor-intensive search.

• Search in the forest

When searching in the forest, certain markers of human activity are used

• presence of mounds
• presence of traces of foundation
• presence of traces of fences
• presence of traces of buildings
• checking all clearings in the forest for the presence of metal
• Using the earth's spectral lines.

The curvature of the lines allows us to conclude that their change is caused by some kind of anomaly. Not necessarily a treasure. But probably.

• Studying the soil map
• Studying the forest map
• Study of river banks
• Study of ravine edges

A ravine is often a spring. There could be a settlement near the water.

Another source for determining where to search

Another source for determining the location of the search for treasure is evidence of historical events. These are places of battles, escape routes, etc.

It is clear that when leaving, those who carried valuables had to hide them just in case.
Accordingly, these are places along the escape routes.
These are also fords where these valuables were lost.

How to look for treasure?

We considered the question of where to look for treasure. But the question remains: how to look for it. The fact is that when you walk around with a metal detector, you receive different signals to the device. But which ones are worth digging for? Usually they dig all the colored signals.
But for a treasure, a color signal is not at all necessary.
What is a treasure?
That's a lot of coins. Those. This is a big goal. Accordingly, when searching for treasure, you need to dig for all large signals. Both black and colored.
If you have a more or less modern village, then you will dig with plows and buckets. But if it’s old, then there will be more interesting finds.

When you go out into a plowed field where there was a village before, you receive many small signals from coins. (From plowed treasures, or just lost items). It’s possible (and most likely so) that a whole army of search engines came before you and collected all the small useful signals. But, as we said above, a treasure is a large signal and not always colored. Accordingly, there is a chance to find treasure that the plow did not reach. In this case, you need to dig for all major signals.

If you decide to become a treasure hunter and are going to purposefully search for treasures, then in this article we will try to list the most effective search methods, as well as those characteristic places in which treasures are most often found.

Since ancient times, the earth has become a reliable repository of money, jewelry, weapons, and even clothing. In a word, everything that a person treasured, trying in this way to protect his money and other valuables from robbers, fires, wars and other disasters, of which there were many at all times. But often, for various reasons, all this stuff remained in the ground, never being claimed by the owner; these caches are discovered today by search enthusiasts with metal detectors, who accidentally or specifically search in places where such treasures can be found.

Where to look for “household” treasures?

If we talk about money found by search engines in the ground, then depending on the amount found, they can be divided into two groups - treasures and wallets. The fact is that previously the land was trusted not only with those funds that were put aside for a long time, but also with those that were used constantly - coins were often deposited into these hiding places, or, conversely, some were taken for necessary needs. These insignificant savings are called wallets, and those savings that were deposited for a long time can be called full-fledged treasures.

When we think about treasures, our imagination immediately conjures up huge pirate chests filled with jewelry and gold. Of course, there are such treasures on the territory of Russia, but for the most part, the caches found by search engines contain insignificant, at face value, funds hidden in distant years by one family and which are its savings.

The statistics of found treasures suggests that the more troubled the times were, the more people hid treasures, trying to save what they had earned. For example, there are much more caches associated with the pre-Petrine period than those buried in the 19th century. The general stability in the country, the ability to invest funds in growth, the development of culture, and other factors influenced the fact that less and less treasures were buried. But such moments in history as the revolution of 1917 and the collectivization that followed it, the dispossession of the wealthy layer of the peasantry - again forced people to turn to the land for help in preserving what they had accumulated.

An interesting fact is that almost always treasures are found not at all deep, at the depth of a spade bayonet. Why? Yes, everything is very simple - by burying money in the ground, its owner had to be confident that at any moment he could get it out without wasting time on it. If he buried a “wallet” in the ground, then it was even more in demand, and he literally sprinkled a handful of earth on top or laid it with stones, so as not to often dig into the ground and look for his treasure.

In order to determine where to look for treasure, it is necessary to understand the psychology of behavior of those people who hid them. Often this happened inside the home, without leaving the four walls in which they lived! The fact is that old houses had earthen floors. This practice of building houses existed in the middle of the last century! And how convenient it is, and also hidden from prying eyes - after all, if you bury a treasure in the garden, then this process can be seen by someone else, but in the house you could safely hide and quickly disguise traces of the hiding place. Moreover, this method of storing money and valuables could be used all year round, winter and summer!

It is known that many settlements that once existed on the territory of Russia disappeared without a trace at different times and for various reasons - where war intervened, where diseases, and where fires... The territory now occupied by ancient villages is also not a constant. To put it simply, villages “floated” over the centuries, moving in one direction or another, and this was due to the same reasons. If there was a fire in a village, several houses, or even the entire settlement, burned out at once. The residents, not wanting to leave the village itself, nevertheless did not want to build in the same place where misfortune befell them, so they built a new house far from the ashes. But the savings buried in the ground could remain in the old place, never found by the owners... Therefore, treasures in such places are often found at some distance from the existing estates. This is a sign that previously housing was not located where it is today.

When planning to look for a treasure, you need to carefully approach the issue of searching for such a historical place where there could be similar caches, where people settled and lived for a long time. To identify a place, you need to stock up on maps, preferably from several time periods, as well as a modern map of the area. Thanks to modern methods of overlaying maps and linking the coordinates of ancient objects to modern coordinates, it is quite easy to establish the location of those settlements that interest you, including those that have disappeared. As a rule, many natural objects remain static for centuries, clearly indicating the place where you should start looking for treasure.

If the search location for the treasure has been determined, you should pay attention to the location of roads, rivers, fields and forests, which can also help in finding treasures. Treasures are often found near prominent places - large trees, stones, river bends. You can identify such places when you are still only conducting cartographic preparation.

When you are at the site of a future search, do not rush to look for the treasure. Try to look at this territory through the eyes of those people who lived here several centuries ago. Imagine where houses could stand, where there should be a watering hole, and where there should be a river crossing. Such analysis sometimes unmistakably suggests the place where the treasure may be hidden.

The flat areas of the tracts may well turn out to be those objects that need to be given maximum attention - after all, this is where houses could stand in the old days! Examine them with passion. As a rule, in such places there will be some increased concentration of iron objects, which will indicate to you that the place has been chosen correctly. Other signs will indicate this, for example, fragments of ceramics, often found in places of old settlements. In ancient houses there was no stone foundation; logs were often laid on the ground, so the boundaries of the location of the house may be blurred and not clearly defined.

As you move around the tract, try to determine, as far as possible, the contours of the houses that once stood here: there is a high probability that the treasured pot may be right here. Practice iron signals, too, since a cache of ancient weapons can be no less valuable than a handful of silver!

Of course, it is very important to know at what time the village existed and when it disappeared. This determines which approach to use when searching for treasures. If you are lucky enough to find a settlement that has disappeared more than a hundred years ago, then you need to check any signal. Please note that treasures were hidden not only in clay pots - the pot could also be cast iron, therefore, such a signal can be missed. Treasures were also hidden in iron cans (this happened in a later period; as a rule, such hiding places date back to the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries), so this possibility cannot be discounted either, you just have to be careful about this possibility.

Where to look for robber treasures?

Until now, we have only talked about treasures that were present, so to speak, in everyday life, in the old family and way of life. But there are other treasures that can be discovered - these are robbers' treasures, treasures of trading and traveling people. In order to find such a treasure, a different tactic is needed.

Such treasures are found on ancient roads, along trade routes, far from cities and villages, in places surrounded by forest or on passes.

Household treasures are discovered on the territory of Russia with enviable consistency. Both in the Middle Zone and in the South, wherever people have lived from time immemorial, caches can be found. The probability of finding such a treasure is very high, since previously everyone who had it buried money, it was a general action.

Treasures are not open to everyone, but if your goal is to find the treasure, you will have to work hard before this happens. Finding the treasured place, as well as preliminary preparation, will take a lot of time, but all these costs can be justified by an excellent find.

It remains for us to add one very important clarification. Before looking for a treasure, familiarize yourself with the existing legislation, because having discovered a treasure, you must fulfill a number of conditions dictated by the Law. You should not neglect these conditions if you do not want to get into big troubles instead of the joy of the find.

We briefly got acquainted with what kind of treasures there are, as well as where to look for them. It depends on you how successful the search process will be. But do not be upset if, despite all the efforts made on your part, the treasure was not discovered. We are confident that a search in such places, even if it does not yield treasure, will yield many other finds related to the past of Russia. Some of them can be even more expensive than treasures, so sit down with your cards, look for a place and may luck accompany you in your search!

We all want to find something valuable in the ground, we all look for coins, sometimes we ask ourselves the question, how to find a treasure? We search for information on the Internet, read a lot of literature, go out in search of promising places, but, as a rule, we return empty, or at best we find a few coins.

The treasures were not hidden because of good times, or something happened and they were hidden in the ground hastily, up to half a meter deep. Or somewhere in the house. It could be a floor, a stove, or even a well.

Therefore, it is very easy to find them. It’s not for nothing that when looking for coins on an old farm, you come across pots of coins. With copper or silver or even gold. This is all due to the fact that the treasures are not so hidden from our eyes, the main thing is patience, not a lot of knowledge and MD, but it’s possible even without it

How to find a treasure?

We will not search for famous treasures, such as the “Treasure of Lenka Panteleev”, “Treasures of the Smolensk Bank” or even look for the “Library of Ivan the Terrible”.

I was so stupid once before. And I almost got lost in the Odessa catacombs. And all because of the search for the treasure of Mishka Jap. For four days I searched for a way out of the dungeon, and returned empty-handed, scared, hungry, dirty, and without any finds.

Don't repeat my mistakes. We will not be able to find large treasures, since they have been searched for centuries by more experienced people than us. Perhaps some of them were even found, but history is silent about this.

To search for random treasures, we, of course, will need a metal detector; I advise you to choose one of these models.

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Next we need an old map. I advise you to use “Schubert cards”. There are a lot of them on the Internet. They exist for every city and village. You download, roughly overlay the old map on the new one, or roughly navigate by rivers, lakes and capes.

That's it, we have a metal detector, we already know approximately where to go. All that remains is to answer the question: where can you find the treasure?

But here, rely on luck. Finding it is quite possible. Here are the treasures recovered in Ukraine in the summer of 2013. Please note that under the word summer, I have entered three months:

They say that in Odessa all places have been knocked out. That’s what I and all my fellow comrades said. But one of the diggers proved otherwise. Because he came across a treasure trove of Soviet coins. Although they are not particularly valuable, they are still a TREASURE!!!

Here is also an interesting treasure trove of royal coppers. As the author kostjan771 says, “it’s like the place is broken and broken, and I myself have already dug here 100 times. But when I arrived again, I came across a very interesting signal, as if the device had gone crazy and malfunctioned. I walked about 3 meters away and the signal disappeared. Then I realized there was something large and colored under the coil. I dug into the depths with two bayonets of a shovel, and then I came across a treasure.”

It’s hard to call it a treasure, because there are very few coins. But let's call it a greasy mess. I counted 15 coins with a face value of 2 kopecks. Cool in one word!!!

As one of the diggers who found this treasure says, “There are no knocked out places.” So, under this phrase, he went into battle with a metal detector. After an hour of active digging, this treasure trove of early tips was picked up. Coins with denomination 1921 and until 1930. Total 1309 coins.

Here is also an interesting treasure in the hat. As far as I know, there are 1 ruble and 50 royal kopecks here. And in those days they were made from precious metals. Result: 1 ruble 1737, half of 1723, 6 pieces of kopeck coins of 1744-1748, 14 pieces of nickels (crosses), 16 pieces of half rubles and 68 pieces of money.

This treasure really resonated with me. Again in the knocked out place. So “there are no knocked out places.”

Well, that's not all. I already wrote about . You can also find a lot of interesting antiques there, including treasures and heaps of old coins in good condition. So, don't forget about him either.

Finding a treasure is quite possible. You just need to look and believe in chance. Luck will definitely smile on you and you will find a small or even large pot of coins.

Hi all! The treasure is the climax of the cop that we all probably strive for. Everyone, everyone, dreams of finding at least a small pot of coins. Even with Nikolaev copper. Still a treasure.

Treasures are usually found by accident. And mostly not treasure hunters who purposefully ping the ground with metal detectors, but ordinary people far from being a cop. And even children. Children are curious and climb everywhere. So they come across stashes left a hundred - two - three years ago. But sometimes diggers are also lucky in their treasure troves.

Finding treasure requires luck. If there is no luck, then you won’t get the treasure. There really is luck in our business. Some are destined to find rariq, and others a couple of kilograms of wire.

You must communicate well with the local population, and especially with the old residents. After all, the elderly owners of village houses are a treasure trove of information about these places. They have seen a lot in their lifetime, and rumors about treasures and riches were also passed down from their fathers and grandfathers. They will always talk about their once rich neighbors, who lived where in the village. Moreover, in remote places, where there are always few people, the locals will be happy to talk to you.

You should not lose sight of the stories with legends about treasures. After all, it’s not all that easy. There must be some truth! It’s just that over time the legends acquire more and more new details. Especially about the size of the treasure and its contents :) For example, I visited different parts of the Siberian highway and everywhere I heard stories from locals that Empress Catherine the Great passed through here and hid a couple of barrels of gold.

It even happens that there are witnesses to how in childhood they saw someone in the old days burying their wealth. I also heard such stories, and some even had a happy ending - the raising of the treasure. But, mostly, older people forget the place during all this time. Or they cannot recognize it only because it has changed: houses, buildings, fences have disappeared. The trees have grown, and some have already been cut down or fallen. The landmarks are lost.

We have a fairly large abandoned village nearby, where there are many red brick houses. So, in one of them they found rubles and fifty kopecks of Nicholas II in the wall. They just caught the signal and hit the wall. And from there, large gray round pieces rained down with a ringing sound. Can you imagine this?! 😮. Someone just got lucky...

By the way, for some reason I am fascinated by such stone houses. You always want to dig into them and poke around. After all, at that time it was an expensive pleasure to build such a home. And you can always find some stash. On the review in the pit topic, I saw reports with gold from under the stove. What a long way to go! This spring Sanya raised a stash of a few nickels near the stove in a stone two-story house. In such places, you can run into an interesting find at any time. Everything found in this house:

Or you might just wander through a plowed field and come across a treasure being plowed. You will immediately understand this when you come across similar coins one after another: be it the denomination, for example, Catherine’s nickels, the material (silver) or approximately the same period. Of course, it is labor-intensive to dig for such treasures. There are a lot of signals to be dug up. You will be lucky when you come across the core of the treasure, from which the plow scattered some of the coins across the field. But there is not always a core. For example, when we were digging, we didn’t get a cannonball.

Only by arming yourself with the necessary information about treasures, leads, and historical information can you with a high degree of probability find what is hidden! And chance and luck will help you!

Moscow is full of secrets and mysteries. Enemy raids, fires and troubled times forced residents to resort to the most reliable “bank” of all time: a hole in the ground and a hiding place at home. Legends about the capital's treasures have worried the capital's residents for many centuries. How to find treasure today?

What is a treasure?

In adventure films, a treasure is a chest with gold, diamonds and jewelry. In real life, small blackened coins, buttons, dishes and other objects from past eras are most often found. To become a real treasure hunter, you need to understand the finds and know what is valuable and what is not. After all, a handful of blackened coins or a nondescript figurine may well cost more than a gold bar.

“A handful of blackened coins or a tatty figurine may well be worth more than a gold bar.” Photo: RIA Novosti / Vladimir Fedorenko

Legality of searches

According to the law adopted in 2013, searches are allowed in areas where settlements and other traces of human activity older than 100 years have not been recorded, on public beaches, and at battle sites.

Excavations are prohibited at sites of former settlements that are more than 100 years old, at sites included in the register of historical monuments.

If the treasure is recognized as a historical and cultural monument, the finder is entitled to 50% of its value. This amount is divided between the treasure hunter and the owner of the territory where the find was made. A treasure hunter who searches without the permission of the owner of the land or house receives nothing.

Where to look

Over the entire history of Moscow, 100 treasures found within the historical boundaries of the city have been officially recorded. About 200 more finds were made in the Moscow region. According to researchers, the total number of artifacts found, of which the state knows nothing, is in the thousands. City treasures are often “richer” than those near Moscow, but they are found less and less often: digging in the center of the capital is prohibited, and there are few old buildings left. In the Moscow region, the chances of finding something are much greater, and this is where treasure hunters' searches are most often concentrated.

Old Moscow houses keep many secrets. Behind door frames, under window sills and floors you can find hiding places, rolled coins and other small objects. In the attics, they most often hid what was dangerous to keep in the apartment: weapons, stolen items and other illegally acquired property.

In Soviet five-story buildings undergoing demolition you can also find a lot of interesting things. Soviet coins, postcards, badges and other items that were forgotten or left behind, considered unnecessary, often bring treasure hunters a good income.

A treasure of 140 gold Russian and foreign coins from 1917, found in Moscow in Tikhvinsky Lane in 1990. Exhibition of Russian treasures at the State Historical Museum in Moscow. Photo: RIA Novosti / Igor Mikhalev Ancient burial places arouse keen interest among treasure hunters. True, Russian searchers were less fortunate than European ones: among the Slavs it was customary to put everyday items in the grave, not jewelry.

On the battlefields There are many artifacts lying in the ground. Items of ammunition, orders, medals, weapons - all of this has great historical value.

Abandoned villages also rich in finds. Old coins and other antiques can be found behind door frames, under floors and in attics, in the ground around houses and on the streets.

Much can be found on former fairs, markets and other crowded places . The land here is replete with everyday items from past times, coins, and if you're lucky, you can even find a cache of money and other valuables. In addition, you can search at former crossings where carts often traveled, near springs and wells, in ravines and dry stream beds.

Five most valuable Moscow treasures

Large Kremlin treasure. In 1988, a 12th-century treasure was found near the Spassky Gate, consisting of 300 items: silver head ornaments, pendants, temple rings, and silver ingots.

Jewelry from the Great Kremlin Treasure. Found in 1988 near the Spassky Gate. The items were made in Rus' in the 12th - early 13th centuries. Hidden in 1238 during the invasion of Batu Khan to Moscow. Fragments of temple rings, studs, buttons, beads. Not restored. Silver, granulation, filigree, niello, forging, soldering. Photo: RIA Novosti / Dmitry Korobeinikov

Ipatiev coin hoard. 3,398 coins (over 74 kg of silver) were found in Ipatievsky Lane. The coins were minted in Spanish mints and lay 6 meters underground from the 17th century until 1970, when they were accidentally discovered during construction.

Treasure of the Dyakovsky settlement. A treasure found in Kolomenskoye in the 19th century changed the entire historiography of Moscow. Among the finds are items from the 5th-6th centuries: clay weights, bone and iron arrowheads, iron knives and sickles, and items of primitive art.

A group of archaeologists in the underground of the Moscow Kremlin near the white stone walls. 1976 Photo: RIA Novosti / M. Nachinkin

Treasure at the site of the Rossiya Hotel. In 1967, during the construction of the northern ramp of the hotel, a clay jug was found at a depth of about seven meters, containing 58 half and 2 rubles of the 15th-16th centuries.

Treasure from Ilyinka. Found in 1909, the treasure consisted of 22,000 coins from the times Mikhail Fedorovich And Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov. The total weight of the find was 11 kilograms of pure silver.

Five unfound Moscow treasures

Money of False Dmitry. After the overthrow False Dmitry It turned out that 300 thousand rubles in gold were missing from the treasury. He could not spend that kind of money in the short time of his reign. Therefore, a legend appeared about a treasure buried somewhere on the territory of Moscow.

Diamond of Sonya Golden Hand. According to legend, the famous thief Sonya put a huge diamond in a samovar and hid it not far from the Khitrov market.

Treasure of Count Rastopchin. After the Battle of Borodino, the count, who at that time held the post of Governor-General of Moscow, urgently retreated from his Voronovo estate and decided to burn the house with all its property. A note was left for the French: “Here you will find one ashes!” However, according to many historians, this was just a political gesture, and the wealth is still stored somewhere on the estate.

Treasure of Vanka Cain. A swindler, thief and rogue who lived in the 18th century, owner of the first banned casino, Vanka Cain, according to rumors, was fabulously rich. After his arrest, the authorities promised to release him from prison if he told where he hid the treasure. But even under torture, Vanka insisted that he was a poor man. Nothing was found during a search of his home in Zaryadye. According to legend, the treasure is still hidden somewhere in the area.

Library of Ivan the Terrible. Famous library Ivan the Terrible, according to historians, consisted not only of books (which in themselves are priceless today), but also of untold wealth. The main evidence of the existence of the legendary Liberea is considered to be the testimony of a Protestant pastor Johann Wettermann. His words are quoted in his “Livonian Chronicle” Franz Nienstedt(XVI century): “The books, like precious treasures, were kept walled up in two vaulted cellars.” It is not known for certain where these basements are.