Metal detector

The basic classification of treasures

hide — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:23:36 GMT

1. All treasures on a general characteristic share on three groups:

Valuable treasures - to which concern the hiding places containing more of half of subjects obshcheprinjatyhtsennostej of time of a burial place. It is the most widespread group of treasures, and the majority of examples of detection of treasures - acknowledgement to that.
Household treasures - represent certain "motley crew" from every possible subjects of a household purpose. Such burial places are characteristic for districts where there passed population shift - for example, in case of voluntary evacuation. Hiding places have expressed "binding" to the left dwelling. Value of treasures depends on an antiquity of household subjects.

Relikvijnye treasures - sostovljajut group trudnopredskazuemyh hiding places. "..." to Undertake search of a treasure which can be ranked to relikvijnoj to group, it is possible only in two cases: or when there is a customer paying searches, or there are exact data on the hiding place maintenance, and they are equitable to your interests.
2. Division of treasures on motivation of a burial place.
Savings - those small and big treasures in which people or groups lbdej isstari stored money and jewelry. The greatest variety of places uprjatyvanija and ways of masking concern this group: here and "short-term" treasures in a hollow of a tree or under a threshold, there and then - and terrible treasures of pirates. As a rule, such treasures, in the majority, involve in themselves of selectors and bring in the considerable income to successful people. The statistics says that to 70 % of such treasures find in the earth, and the bottom horizon of a burial place seldom exceeds 1,5 metres uglublennosti concerning a surface of the device of a hiding place. Certainly, this figure undertakes without change of a lay of land under influence of the natural or technogenic factors changing depth of immersing of horizons of a burial place.

Situatsionnnye treasures - concern them the treasures hidden in ekstrimalnyh conditions. The situations which have caused emergency measures on concealment of treasure, can be the diversified, but their influence is given to hiding places many by the general signs detailed acquaintance with which will allow to narrow a circle of searches considerably. As examples wartime treasures when bystromenjajushchajasja operative conditions forced to use not desirable means for reliable shelter of values, and the first comers most accessible which probably to count kladoiskatelju serve.
Cult treasures - the weight of the values sacrificed to pagan gods and spirits concerns them. Plural wood altars and underground sanctuaries, sacred stones and sacrificial reservoirs store vozde themselves considerable treasures. For search of similar treasures it is necessary to study thoroughly traditions of the ancient people, there is no time occupying districts interesting selectors, having addressed to the historical literature.

3. Treasures are subdivided on superficial, underground and underwater.
Superficial treasures - all those treasures which are hidden in land constructions, natural cavities (excepting caves), are buried in the earth not more deeply three metres. On kollichestvennomu to structure such treasures occupy a leading place among all found out and fixed finds of values, however, they concede a palm to underwater treasures at estimated cost of the taken subjects. "..." a find made in boundary territory "water-land", sometimes happens difficultly to carry to this or that group: the land raising can make a sea treasure "overland", and land subsidence - on the contrary, sends under water superficial treasures
The values hidden in natural and artificial podhzemeljah concern underground treasures, and as dug in the earth on depth more than three metres. "..." deeply dug treasures often concern a category of difficult burial places, and for exact detection demand high-sensitivity diagnostichcheskuju equipment that is interfaced with heavy capital investments. They demand exact documentary check and serious archival works for reduction of expenses on unnecessary dredging, because of discrepancies in strategy poiskaju
The group of underwater treasures includes as actually the treasures hidden under water, and the values hidden by water and ground deposits besides will of their owner. "..." underwater excavation of the sunk sites of a land is interesting more likely to underwater archeologists, than kladoiskateljam. Smaller expenses manage kladoiskateljam perspective enough searches of situational treasures in fresh waters.

What is the treasure?

hide — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:22:54 GMT

Treasure - hidden in the earth or in a wall of the house riches. Happen "pure", i.e. not bewitched Treasures which any person without harm for itself can take away. But the majority of Treasures "dirty", bewitched, protected by evil spirit and accessible to volume who knows special magic ways of their finding and reception.
Hiding riches, its owner «puts pledge», i.e. says a spell where defines conditions at which can be seized the Treasure, for example to sustain a seven-day post, to make a sacrifice, etc. the Treasure happens is put «on someone's head» (for example, on goose, dog, bull). It means what take away the Treasure the one who will kill this animal on the Treasure location can only. The treasure can be zakljato on a head of the father or mother of the one who will try to take a treasure; on 40 human goals and then 40 persons should die, tried to seize the Treasure, and only forty first can take away it.
According to poverjam, there are the special demons protecting the Treasure: at Russian — kladenets, kopsha, pantries demons who on Ivan Kupalu are chosen by demons from the environment, at Byelorussians — kladnik, a demon dressed in boots with gold horseshoes, a gold belt and a cap, eating only the bread which has been picked up in the street, at Ukrainians and Poles — skarbnik, at Bulgarians — stopin (owner). Often treasures are guarded by devils, damned people, at the western Slavs — dwarfs, at Bulgarians and luzhichan — a dragon. Legendary robbers, atamans and kings happen keepers of Treasures.

Places in which Treasures are hidden, — wood, a field, caves, mountains, vaults of old locks. A treasure often buried under a stone, tree roots. The treasure can be hidden in a court yard and even within the house for example, in a wall, in a cellar, under an oven. According to the beliefs, the Treasures dug in the earth rise on a surface open or shone from under the earth then they can be seen and taken away. Such happens on the eve of Ivan Kupaly, in the Palm Sunday, at midnight before the big holidays: before the Christmas, New year, the Lady day, Jurevym in the afternoon, Easter.

The Treasure site can be defined to some signs: when treasures rise on an earth surface, on this place fire, light reflexions, pale sparks is visible. The treasure can seem in the form of the old man, the beautiful girl, any animal, a white birdie, and also a subject, for example a ball.

For mastering by the Treasure it is necessary to know conditions on which it is buried. For this purpose it is necessary to overhear said at concealment of the Treasure a paternoster. During this moment it is possible to change the plot condition, most having said another, easier since last paternoster is effective. For example, the tramp, having overheard the owner of the Treasure conjuring it «on three heads valiant», has changed a spell, having told «on three kola aspen», and when the owner has left, has cut down three aspen kola and has taken away the Treasure.

The one who tries to take away the Treasure, without knowing magic receptions, subjects itself and the relatives of danger: a serious illness and even death. The demons guarding the Treasure, frighten, drive away and kill the unaware person. The treasure "is not given" to it, and only leaves in the earth more deeply or from gold turns to crocks. If the Treasure is shown in the form of an animal, a bird or a subject, it is necessary to strike on it backhand and to tell: «Amin, amin, scatter!» Or to throw on it something from clothes.
On Czech poverjam, the one who will see a pale spark on the Treasure location, should put in it beads, a white rag or a bread piece then the Treasure leaves on a surface. Bulgarians believe that a place where there is a Treasure, it is necessary to strew ashes from badnjaka. Next day on ashes traces on which define will be visible, what victim needs to be brought to the Treasure. If traces of an animal or a bird are visible — pin up a lamb, a ram or a cock if — it is considered traces of the person that the demon — "owner" of the Treasure waits for a human victim. Before to dig out the Treasure, this place is necessary "zaaminit", and during Treasure getting it is necessary to keep silence whatever it was dreamt. A universal remedy for search and mastering by the Treasure the flower of a fern and a plakun-grass is considered. The fern shows that place where the Treasure is buried, and the plakun-grass banishes evil spirit guarding it.

Despite the accepted safety measures, the person who has found the Treasure, often happens is unhappy, has a serious illness and prematurely dies or goes mad, because this money is unhappy and zakljaty chertom. East Slavs and Bulgarians believed that often the damnation falls on a family kladoiskatelja and its descendants.

As well as where to search for treasures?

hide — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:21:34 GMT

So, you have decided to be engaged in search of the lost relics. What for this purpose it is necessary? To begin with you should define for yourselves a concrete direction in which you will work that most of all you interests. Successfully to search, and the most important thing - to find, it is completely not necessary to go somewhere at the other end of the world. Everything of what you only can dream, lies near to you and asks: "Take me!" It is absolutely not obligatory to stay hours in libraries, sifting on particles poor data from books and newspapers (well, can except for archive of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs). The basic information is extracted by local population interrogation. The keystone to success is a persistence and obstinacy. The success consists of 97 % of persistent work and only 3 % of luck. Good luck to you of the colleague! Treasures wait for you the Treasure... What loud word! The TREASURE some hotheads mean chests and the flanks filled by silver and gold by a word. The concept "kladoiskatel" gives rise to the most fantastic gossips and hearings which can be reflected in you in the most fatal image. What do we see actually? What is the treasure? A treasure are the values hidden by someone. But, unfortunately, that was considered valuable earlier, now, mostly, in general costs nothing! Basically it concerns copper coins, and with ware treasures, as a rule, all on the contrary. As has shown time, the most valuable and interesting finds become in cities, and here by quantity of finds the countryside is in the lead. To city finds we will return a bit later, and now we will talk particularly about a countryside. Let's lower the reasons of occurrence of monetary treasures. About them you can read even in the school textbook of history. And here to learn, where hid and how to find, it and is ours with you a problem.

The most successful place for searches are old natural boundaries. It will be even better, if settlement in which you spend the researches, has been destroyed during any war or revolution. To find out their former site, it is necessary to get vast scale topographic maps: one - pre-revolutionary, the second - pre-war and the third - modern. On these cards you can find out that for constructions there were earlier: chapels, churches, manors, etc., which will be not difficult for finding by means of a usual compass. Having arrived to search area, not superfluous in the nearest villages will arrange interrogation of local population about legends. But at all it is not necessary to take these legends in all good faith. On hundred legends about ten will appear more or less truthful and only one can appear real. You should learn to "filter" the received information. And here you are directly on object, i.e. On a place of the former settlement. Is better to begin work with inspection of a surface of all site by the metal detector. It is not excluded that you will find subjects interesting you already under turf. It is very good, if the history of this object totals some hundreds years. For these years hundreds coins there have been lost. Your problem consists in that the majority of these coins has removed to you. But here there are difficulties with search in connection with presence of a considerable quantity of iron stuff. Therefore your metal detector should meet the corresponding requirements, allowing to establish degree "otverzhenija" stuff, to have visual and sound recognition. The following stage of search is a detection of ware loads. Present such situation: for any reasons (revolution, war and other) people have been compelled to leave the dwellings urgently. In an extreme situation frequently simply there is no time and possibility to take away with itself the belongings. What first thought occurs? Correctly! To dig! To dig, then to return and take out the good from a hiding place, instead of to acquire new "from zero". But, as practice shows, on big fires the life only in half cases revives, and not all owners back come back. So before you the immense sphere of action opens! But again there is a question on the metal detector, this time about such which can define metal presence on the big depths. Certainly, it is possible to try to search usual shchupom but then search process becomes complicated many times over!

How these were arranged shoronki? Yes it is very simple! People in general did not invent any cunnings. Bytovuha (clothes, ware, icons, samovars etc.) Developed in chests and boxes. Near the house the hole in which put these chests was dug out. Happened, a hole from above prisypali stones or dust. More often shoronki became in court yard, gardens, kitchen gardens, sheds, i.e. There, where it is possible to disguise a superfluous and fresh ground is easier. Less often - in the bases though we had to take them and therefrom. Before the search beginning it is necessary to be defined with an arrangement of the house which here was, to estimate, from what party there was a porch where there was a court yard, a shed etc. Where, in your opinion, it would be most convenient to dig out a hole. After that it is possible to start directly search. Having finished first two stages of search, it is possible to start the following. The following stage consists in a punched hole shurfov "on fart" in the base. Digging out the base, also it is possible to meet coins, ancient bottles with the imperial arms and brands, ware and many other things. In the bases finds of jugs with coins are most probable. To begin shurfit it is better from an oven, obkopav than it from different directions narrow shurfami. Then to punch all corners, then proshurfit along walls in the base. It also concerns a were shed and a bath. Do not forget to ring out necessarily sailings the metal detector as it is very easy to pass a small subject - a coin, a dagger, a ringlet, etc. Once again I will remind: the fate loves the persevering! The success will depend not only on good luck, but also from your enthusiasm! Probably each of you, once heard stories connected with old wells. As for example: "... There was at me in the childhood a dagger, still the great-grandfather with the first world has brought, yes mother in a well has thrown out...", or such: "security officers with a search have become hollow, well grandma has had time to drown all gold in an old well, here only to get and could not..." . Similar stories it is possible to hear great variety. As it is known, old wells as served as storehouse for any "bytovuhi" - samovars, ware and other economic utensils. In the times of troubles people often enough lowered the belongings on a well bottom, in hope to keep them. But, as we already spoke, no means always it was possible to take out the buried good.

If around your search during war there passed a front line the well will represent certain interest and for collectors of military relics. Wells were used by trophy commands for any dump barahla, collected on fields of battles. In such wells it is possible to meet not only a silver samovar, but also helmets, flasks, every possible equipment and even staff documents. In some wells, the subject layer can reach several metres! The distinctive feature of such finds is their safety. In wells practically all perfectly remains - metal, a tree, a skin, a fabric, especially if a ground - clay. Finds from wells will take a worthy place in your house collection. But, I wish to remind: among finds you can meet also and explosive subjects - mines, shells, pomegranates, cartridges. It is not necessary to be interested that there at them inside, especially to throw them in a fire! Is better, if you return them on a former place. With the weapon it is recommended to arrive as. Before to wrap "trunk" in a piece brezentuhi, recollect about article 222 of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation!

So, you have recollected about a well in which, in your opinion, there can be something interesting. With what to begin? To begin with look at a well not as on the former source of potable water, and as on a construction for accumulation of valuable and useful subjects. Let this thought accompanies you in a current of all working process. It will warm up your dreams and imaginations and will not allow to die away to your enthusiasm. To begin well working out follows from clearing sruba and removals of the decayed wreaths. For this purpose obkopajte old srub so that the hole was wider sruba approximately on metre from each wall. In process of hole deepening, delete rotten wreaths until will reach to "live" sruba. The well can be filled by water if depth to a ground is not great water can be pumped out buckets, well and if depth reaches several metres it is desirable to take advantage of a motor-pump. After end of the first stage, it is possible to start descent. Descent and lifting are the most responsible processes in well working out. To avoid accidents, it is necessary to approach to this question very seriously. Here I will make small deviation: when our collective has decided to be engaged in inspection of old wells, we had to take some lessons from skilled climbers. On a rope ladder and descent by means of trigger system we passed working off of receptions of lifting on the bridge crane. To go down in a well it is more convenient by means of climbing trigger system. Kapron fal on which you have gone down, will serve you as the reliable insurance. In wells very often there are stoppers - the got stuck sticks, leaves and other dust below which there can be an emptiness. Under your weight this stopper can fail and you, certainly, too. Kapron fal, pitted on the necessary depth and reliably fixed on a surface, will not allow to you to fail together with a stopper. In case of any unforeseen situation, by means of it fala your partners easily also will quickly take you from a well. For ground lifting on a surface it is necessary to make a tripod. A tripod are the three usual, not so thick logs reliably fastened among themselves. The block roller through which the cord for a bucket raising is thrown from above fastens. Working in a well, on a head it is necessary to have a building helmet as sticks, stones and other heavy subjects from above can fall. The tool which is necessary for you below is usual collapsible sapernaja a shovel. It is possible to use and usual, but truncated. Sending a bucket with a ground upward, try to examine more often a condition of its handle, a carbine and a cord. Any lacks are necessary for correcting immediately. Agree that falling to you on a head a bucket - not palatable pleasure. In process of advancement deep into, watch also a condition sruba. Though in our practice of collapses srubov yet done not happen, but, as they say, you never can tell. If you in something are not assured, work is better for stopping. Also I wish to remind necessarily to you that in wells suffocating gas can accumulate. If you have made a break in work for some days, and have then returned to finish, it is obligatory before descent be convinced of absence of gas. It can be made by means of a simple candle. For this purpose it is necessary to light a candle and to lower on a cord on the bottom. If the candle has gone out, gas all the same means is present and it is necessary to spend ventilation necessarily. To remove gas it is possible by means of an empty bucket, pogonjav it upwards downwards. On occasion it is possible to resort to less known, but to an effective remedy - a minioven. It is arranged in such a manner that to podduvnomu to an aperture the pipe which falls as is attached it is possible more low to a water surface or a ground. At burning in the furnace through a pipe occurs otsos gas from a well. At an exit on "a cultural" layer try to define at once that for subjects have seemed from a ground, but do not hurry up, the main thing - not to spoil a find. This thing already yours and very soon you will have control over it. It will be very insulting, if having hastened, you will rumple something, will break or will break. Accurately put finds in buckets and send them upward to the partners. To get out of a well follows on a rope ladder. A ladder very conveniently krepit to a log thrown through a hole. In process of your lifting the partner from above should choose a weak point safety fala, fixing its special capture. Capture also should be reliably adhered to a strong tree or to a tripod. After work end it is desirable to put a well logs that there further nobody could fail. Now, after natural boundaries and wells, has come to tell time to you about search of the same subjects in immediate proximity from your house, i.e. In city boundaries.

The rivers and channels are considered as one of the most perspective places. For years of existence of your city in reservoirs (if those, of course, are available) the large quantity of coins and various subjects which now can represent art and a historical value has accumulated. We will recollect an old sign: to throw in water a coin fortunately., Probably, threw though time? It is impossible to present, how many coins have accumulated at the bottom for the last years. The set of subjects was thrown out in reservoirs to get rid of proofs, especially in vague poslerevoljutsionnye times. Therefore it is quite often possible to find imperial awards, kortiki, sabres. Sometimes in the reservoirs which are about churches, it is possible to find icons, ladanki and other church utensils. It is simply impossible to list all variety of finds. Everything that can be thrown out, lost, hidden the person - all can be found it in water. Let's briefly review process of extraction of finds of water. What for this purpose it is necessary? First of all the summer and good weather are necessary! Well and passion, certainly. The alluvium is made in places of the most probable congestion of subjects: along quays, at bridges and the former landing stages, pleasure institutions and the churches standing ashore, etc. It is necessary to find nabolee a small place that it was possible to stand in marsh boots. To be necessary for you for effective work the good tray and the big sovok shovel. As most to make a tray the section "Equipment" see. One more important moment. To go down from quays, the rope ladder is required to you, and do not forget the MOST IMPORTANT THING - the big bag for finds! And further all is simple: the shovel scoops a ground, gets enough sleep on a tray and is washed out.

The Kremlin treasures

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It appears, even today it is possible to find a treasure in the centre of Moscow. Some years ago at repair of one of houses on Znamenka workers have found two glass jars, and them wrapped in the newspapers of 1942, 552 gold coins of times of Nikolay I and Nikolay II in gross weight of 4,5 kg! Only present - almost five kg of gold!

Today this treasure and other unique subjects can be seen at an exhibition "New receipts in Museums of the Moscow Kremlin (1995-2005)". The small exposition on volume entirely consists of historical curiosities and masterpieces of different epoch. With a special piety art dealers speak about a masterpiece of the Byzantian art: a silver ladle with a spoon (the end IV-has begun V century) and two koltah – temporal rings which were carried by women of quality of times of the Kiev Russia (XII). On walls of the Byzantian vessel the cheerful procession led by god of wine of Dionisiem and the Sir is represented. Uniqueness of a ladle also that the complete set - a vessel and a spoon to what the inscription on the ladle handle – gross weight of two subjects testifies for the first time is found. Even the Louvre glances with envy at finds, having asked them to itself on an exhibition.

One more pearl of an exposition – an icon of Mother of god Odigitrija ("Putevoditelnitsa", XV). Acquisition last year a mug executed by known Moscow jeweller firm Sazikova became rare good luck. This subject is directly connected with historical meeting of the Armory Museum - the mug is executed on drawing of one of XVII-th century exhibits.

There are here products of the famous jeweller firms of the past (Faberge and Hlebnikova) and our contemporaries, a product zlatoustovskih armourers and medalerov, subjects of a life of the higher nobility of end XiX-nachalaXx centuries and female ornaments from archeological excavations in territory of the Kremlin.

And the collection of a court dress of the end of the XIX-th century, belonging to Maria Maksimilianovne, the princess Badensky meets visitors. Nikolay I grand daughter on the one hand and Ezhena Bogarne (stepson Napoleon) with another, it differed not only refined taste, but also, apparently, surprising thrift. In the Kremlin meeting has arrived about 70 subjects – dresses, gloves, umbrellas and other accessories. It is interesting that charming ladies' umbrellas could not only change a handle angle of slope, covering their owners from the sun, but also to develop, turning to a fan.

Legendary treasures

hide — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:19:46 GMT

The thought on that somewhere underground lies a heap of ownerless money, in popular speech named a treasure, excites many people. The owner who has dug money of some honeycombs, and can be thousand years ago, hardly is behind the riches. Only the spirit turns it over a reserved place, howling and silently sobbing, regretting for those pleasures which it could receive for these riches during lifetime.

It is assured that each inhabitant of a big city of ten times passed by someone the treasure dug underground, without guessing at all it. Archeologists know that there are so-called many-tier treasures when under a treasure buried rather recently, it appears another is hidden, even more ancient.

So in Moscow, at heating main building, in a dredge ladle there were at once coins from three treasures buried during different epoch! Probably for the person hiding a treasure, certain places possess attractive, a mystic force.

In territory of the Kremlin 24 treasures were revealed. It is possible to name some the present treasures. So, in May, 1988 three hundred silver ornaments domongolskogo time, found out here, have once been combined in a wooden trunk with copper handles.

But there were treasures and is larger. As a result of the excavation spent in territory old gostinogo of a court yard, from the earth clay vessels have been taken. In vessels there were 95 429 Russian coins and 335 West European. This treasure is unique. In the field of numismatics to it is not present equal in Russia.

And the most sensational find of last decades — 114,5 kg of the gold which has been found out in Leningrad on October, 26th, 1965.

«We have received this message late at night, —« the Leningrad truth »wrote on October, 27th 1965 year. — Eight ingots of gold of 900th test the brigade of 33rd management of trust № has found 3 Glavleningradstroja. Members of the brigade headed by G.Sljunkovym, working at the corner of streets Garden and Lomonosov, have found out at first one, and then seven more ingots of precious metal».

Certainly, it is a unique find, but in 1981 at the bottom of Barents sea the treasure more valuable has been found. Divers have lifted from the sunk cruiser "Edinburgh" more than five tons of gold.

According to official figures the eighth part of all gold extracted by mankind lies on a sea-bottom and underground. And our country, probably, the leader on ability to earth money. So has historically developed that at various times people had bases to hide riches not only from neighbours, but also from the state. So the sphere of action here is extraordinary wide.

Our century which has put to the romanticist on a rationale, has managed to rationalise even such noble employment, as kladoiskatelstvo. Instead of under the screen of night going somewhere with a pick and a spade, and then to explain to passers that with a chest mushroomed, you buy the metal detector (as it now name — metallodetektor), employ navvies and watchmen and go on searches of the remained romanticism.

The modern metal detector — a piece not cheap. To buy such which not only peeps but also which can be adjusted on search of certain metals (not iron nails after all you go to search), you should fork up on one and a half thousand dollars.

But it yet a limit. There is such piece which name a georadar so its price reaches fifty thousand dollars. He costs as a good treasure, but on the screen it is visible that is underground on many metres deep into.

Cost found is only one party of a medal, another is a historical and art value. Here the price of a clay crock can equal to a gold ingot. Think, what I exaggerate? At all. For example, one of the most courageous hypotheses confirms: signs by which vessels tripolskoj cultures, not an ornament, and the most ancient on the earth writing are covered!

Casually found treasures

hide — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:19:09 GMT

1." Russian tsar Peter I was passionate kladoiskatelem - the truth, not always lucky. In 1708 when the country conducted a dragged-out war with Sweden, the tsar, knowing, Kievo-Pecherskaja of laurels is however rich, has arrived there to force clergymen to fork up. But monks have quickly hidden huge riches, yes so that Peter could leave not solono hlebavshi. The monks who have sworn that will reveal a secret to nobody of a treasure, till the end of the days kept the mouth shut. Almost two centuries the treasure hidden by them remained "not claimed". Have found out it casually, only in 1898. There was a repair of one church. It was necessary to remove a shabby timber floor on choruses and to replace its new. Builders have torn off boards and began to break a breakage a layer of earth being under it... After the next blow the breakage has plunged into a ground, as if in oil. When workers have removed last layers of earth to their eyes the thin pig-iron plate punched by a breakage has opened. It covered a niche in which stood wooden kadushka and four tin cans with densely screwed up covers. Workers have hardly taken from a niche tjazhelennye vessels: at once it was clear, than they are filled. So the richest treasure - 1 pood of 26 pounds of pure gold, 18 poods of 23 and 3/4 of pound of pure silver "has been found.

2. "1845. On suburb of Borisov the bird carrying in the nest any brilliant subjects has been noticed. In it there was a heap of the Lithuanian, Polish, Prussian and Russian coins of XVI century. Obviously, somewhere nearby was vypahan the treasure which has been not noticed by people. The bird involved with shine of silver, began to transfer it to the nest".

3. "1888. At village Novoselki of Baranovichsky area of the Brest area the mole working underground, has thrown out on a surface the Roman coins of I century d.C.".

4. "1921. Under the city of Slutsk the woman grazing a pig, with amazement has seen, how the animal has turned out a pot filled livonskimi and niderladskimi with coins of a XVII-th century from under the earth. A case, apparently, the unique. However still twice pigs have acted in a role successful kladoiskatelej: in 1961 (village Veska of Old Binsky area of the Minsk area: the polsko-Lithuanian coins of a XVII-th century) and in 1963 (village Otrubok of Dokshitsky area of Vitebsk area: silver of Livonia and the Netherlands of a XVII-th century.)".

5. "1964. The wood road washed away by a torrential rain conducting to settlement Kosaljaki of Kormjansky area of the Gomel area, has appeared covered with east coins of IX century".

6. "1969. In natural boundary" Velmovo "near village Girdovka of New Grudsky area of the Grodno area the boy, casually having dug the earth a stick, has come across a treasure of the polsko-Lithuanian coins of a XVII-th century".

7. "The electrician of the mobile mechanised column № 5 Peter Gusaruk, anything, of course, without suspecting, has gone down in the dug trench on one of building sites of the city of Dubno, has pulled densely bound roots... And together with the falling down earth has dropped out rusty metal the bank, up to the top filled with gold coins: 234 pieces, weight more than one and a half kgs. However, one pjatirublevka has appeared a fake. But to it business has not come to an end. P.Gusaruk, having aimed to find still something, has continued excavation in"gold-bearing"area. And it is not unsuccessful: has found out 126 coins in weight of 700 grammes.

8. "The gold ingot is powerful 12 kg 285,3 g the machine operator of collective farm of Lenin n Nikolay Vasilenko has found in the summer of 1987. In bank this standard gold brusok, cast in 1918, has been estimated in 588 thousand roubles of N.Vasilenko has received for the find the largest in Russia the sum - 147 thousand roubles: 25 percent provided by the law from the estimated cost of a treasure". But the most interesting that this brusok behind number 1101 has communication with gold of commercial banks and insurance societies of the Amur province, whose gold reserves are estimated in tons. These treasures have been removed with lined on Zeya kanonerskoj boats "Orochanin" in 1918. Any ingot from remained 1100 (if it is no more!) anywhere did not appear any more and consequently, till now gold somewhere is hidden!

Not found treasures

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How many treasures are hidden, nobody knows, how many is found, the exact data is not present, there is only an official statistics, and fans how many have found and has not given 75 % to the state... 54 treasures, the majority are officially found In Yaroslavl region the monetary. But only one gold, in village Great. I have found the information on not found treasures in territory of Russia. To whom interestingly will read, and to whom will very interestingly go to search. Dare!

THE VORONEZH PROVINCE

BIRJUCHANSKY DISTRICT

On a legend, the treasure from gold and silver coins is buried in Popovom to wood. In 1870 in a ravine reaching for the river Oskol throughout four versts, a high water has washed up human bones. Under the decree of princess Chebotarevoj to which posessed this possession, peasants have searched a ravine and have found a burial place of the soldier: on a skull - a helmet; beside a skeleton - a chain armour and a sword; on a breast and a belt - eight gold and fifteen silver ornaments. The princess has sent things to the Imperial archaeological commission. To peasants she has strictly forbidden to dig the earth, hoping that in excavation archeologists here will be engaged. But those and have not arrived.

BOGUCHAROVSKY DISTRICT

Near village Vorobeva in stone quarries on a grief about eighteen years ago children through a failure have got into a vault where have found silver stirrups, buttons and an ancient sabre. Under stories of old men, in stone quarries there was a predatory camp and the treasure is buried.

PODGORENSKY VOLOST

The legend specifies in a treasure in a barrow on a grief Sapozhnikovoj. Kladoiskateli razryli a barrow, the vaults which have been laid out by a brick, coal and set of silver coins have found. Works have been interrupted because of war with Germans.

KOROTOJAKSKY DISTRICT

Inhabitants of village Platova tell about a well of robber Kudejara where has been lowered kazan with gold and silver. The well is somewhere in natural boundary the Good oak.

NEW HOPERSKY DISTRICT

In village Pyhove there is a legend about the predatory treasures in a grief Limanovke, in barrows the Figure and Dug out. There were attempts to find them, but only ancient things are found out.

THE VOLOGDA PROVINCE

SOLVYCHEGODSKY DISTRICT.

Under the legend, around present district the predatory gang which has dug stolen in wood, under two pines that stand at a confluence of the Podovinsky stream of the river Vychegda where nowadays takes place a post path in village Rjabovo managed. Peasants repeatedly tried to dig out a treasure. But to reach it, it was necessary to cut down pines. And nobody has dared at it: all knew that is imposed zakljate - cut down the pine will be comprehended by death. On the same Vychegda, at a confluence of it of the river Chakulki, at the coast has sunk the predatory ship, gruzhennyj the goods stolen at merchants there is no time. It is said that over the sunk ship by order of the ataman robbers filled a hill to five sazhen in height. Local residents name this hill the Ship. Near to it there is a deep lake.

JARENSKY DISTRICT, TOURIST'S INSKY VOLOST

About hundred years ago in village Horse there lived on the earths the general Zherebovsky. He has conceived to base small town in natural boundary Of Penalties ies, in five versts on the river Vymi on a high hill for what has collected two kegs of gold. During revolt Zherebovsky peasants have killed, the house it have plundered, but some gold have not found. Hearings went that kegs were stored in a hiding place. Peasant Sekerin who has bought manor Zherebovsky, has transformed a vault of the old house into a glacier. And the well in a vault from which there was an input in a hiding place, it from a sin far away covered with earth.

THE ASTRAKHAN PROVINCE

On persistent hearings, Pugachev pursued by general Mihelsonom, has flooded in the lake which is at village Solodovniki, crew with the treasures stolen at landowners.

THE KUBAN AREA

In a village Urupsky, on a grief near a garden urjadnika Daniels Yermolaevs, there, where a spring, grew three oaks between which the captive of the mountain prince has buried a treasure.

THE KALUGA PROVINCE

BOHR DISTRICT. The treasure, under the legend, is near a city of Borovsk, in a pine forest, on a place of the former earthen arbour of general Mihelja, under a huge stone, from above as though sawn.

THE SARATOV PROVINCE.

VOLSKY DISTRICT. In four versts from village Voskresensky on the way to village Kadomtsevo, near to the big ravine, the subway in length five sazhen is found out. It narrow, places has the stone arches and walls in height of 1,5 arshins. It is crossed by other secret passage. Near this place treasures of the Tatar coins twice found.

TRANSBAIKALIAN AREA

SELENGINSKY DISTRICT, TROITSK VOLOST. Villages Ilinsky and Troitsk, in mountains on the river Drunk, have no time the gang of robbers led by the katorzhaninom-Circassian lived. Last on friendship has entrusted fellow countryman Asanu secret about the predatory treasure and has written a note how to find two kegs of gold buried in mountains. Asan about fifteen years ago has instigated local hunter Klekunova to go to joint searches of a treasure. They have found, according to the document, a source Hot. Beside was, pressing in the river, a rock, in it - a cave to four sazhen depth. It has appeared empty. Having risen sazhen on 40-50 upwards on a stream, kladoiskateli have come across ruins zimovja. From it there was uphill cut on depth five vershoks a track. Nobody has dared to pass the first on it, and both have come back home. About a treasure it it is known for a long time, and to searches behind it went and to Asana. Found in mountains ancient guns, saddles, but some gold and have not found.

Hunters behind treasures

hide — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:17:27 GMT

And to this day, researchers confirm, in the Russian earth considerable treasures are concealed. For summer wait all. Look forward. But the impatience of that part of our fellow citizens which with approach of warm days, the earth hardly will dry up is especially great, go on searches of treasures. These are professional kladoiskateli, precisely knowing (here of what they are assured!) where infinite riches as ' to take ' them and that with them then are covered by ancestors to do. For such confidence they like have all bases - the wide experience of many unruly predecessors is generalised and investigated...

Each lake, deep wood ravine, dark, porosshy mohom the boulder and a standing alone centenary pine have own, specifying in possible luck, a legend. The thrown trading ways on wood volokam and to the rivers, grown for centuries wood the rests of ancient sites of ancient settlement both unknown tombs and barrows store the secrets. On national poverjam, treasures more often are in these parts latent.

So confirms A.J.Nizovsky - the author of the book ' Legends and were Russian olden time '. This book is let recently out in Moscow by publishing house ' Veche ' and, undoubtedly, will be interesting to all who is subject to passion of search.

Here that, in particular, tells A.Nizovsky.

' especially often legends about a treasure are connected with an ancient barrow or a site of ancient settlement. In Kostroma village Unorozhe many legends about barrow treasures ' Zhuravets ', for example, go. In a barrow that on ' Myshem the enemy ' at the river of Kostroma, under stories, also is available a treasure. Specify and in lake near Parfenteva posada, on a place of the former monastery. In this lake, speak, is a flank with the gold, lowered by monks at an attack on a monastery of robbers. In other lake, at village Ledino, under Kologrivom, flanks with gold and jewelry lie. They were thrown living on a grief over lake by the landowner when he was attacked by robbers. In Peuzsky lake near the cities of Makareva also are a treasure - a flank with money for an anchor...

Such stories - about flanks and chests with gold and silver and other jewelry which sometimes in clear day it is visible at the bottom, - there is a set.

All these ' perceptible places ' are not only a fruit of national imagination. As has fairly noticed one Smolensk kladoiskatel the last century, left the interesting description of the searches, ' it is not necessary to look at the legend as on pure lie: in each legend there is an element of truth '. The example to that is found recently vjatskim the researcher V.A.Berdinskih history. And its essence that the huge old pine grew in village Lekma of Slobodsky district near to road. Under the legend, near it in old years the treasure, bewitched has been buried by terrible pledge. Near to a pine at all did not plough - were afraid. Lekminsky peasants spoke: ' When the appointed hours then he will seem to the lucky person ' will come for a treasure.

' Happy has been appointed ' 16-year-old Savvaty Berdinsky. In May, 1863 they with the stepmother ploughed the strip of the earth near ' perceptible ' pines. At the next turn the guy, without having kept a plough, has curtailed to a pine, having touched a place not touched before. And here on an arable land small silver money also was scattered...

As it has appeared, the treasure consisted of more than three hundred silver copecks of a XVII-th century - times of tsars Michael Fedorovicha and Alexey Mihajlovicha. The stepmother has rushed with the secret to the rich relative in the next volost that houses the rumour was not carried. That for hundred coins has given to the woman only two roubles. Then the stepmother, having buried the children, has got over on a residence in a city, and Savvaty remained the poor poor creature with the younger brother and sister on hands. Then it has come behind council to the local priest and has shown it the treasure rest - 197 coins. That has advised to send a treasure to Petersburg, in the Archaeological commission. And have made. And in 1864 the boy has received from the Archaeological commission, as nahodchik a treasure, small compensation - with withdrawal, however, the postage...

In a word, lonely deaf and especially perceptible places are in most cases connected with legends about treasures. But how precisely to learn a place ' loads '? On this case existed ' record pantries ' and the drawings serving by indexes and a management at search of treasures. Sometimes they were made in the form of the will or the letter on someone's name with detailed transfer of the buried things. Them stored as an eye pupil, for them hunted, for them searched, transferred from generation to generation, extracted ' caress and money ', exchanged, bought, wrote off, at last, simply stole.

In most cases texts ' pantries of records ' are foggy. Here a characteristic example:

' I have sent from Moscow with different good 973 supplies, in the Kaluga gate to Mozhaisk. From Mozhaisk I have gone Old road to Smolensk, became nedoshedshi medynskih and vjazemskih district. Has stopped on Marten to a pine forest; the small river flows from night on winter rising, and a name of that small river Marshevka, and then I ordered to Russian people on Marten to a pine forest to make on a waterless valley a stone dam, a dam glinoju ordered to grease, and in it have put a board flaky and on it is written, where that is necessary shedshi from Moscow to Mozhaisk '.

So the text ' a record pantry ', made, under the legend, in the Time of Troubles the Polish king Sigizmundom (under other version - impostor Grishkoj Otrepevym) begins. The original of this record executed ' on a copper board ' in Latin and Polish languages, on belief old kladoiskatelej, was in Warsaw, and secretly made list from it, translated into Russian, was widespread in the environment of Russian selectors of treasures...

In that ' treasures of the Polish king ' are dated for the Time of Troubles, there is nothing surprising - in the Time of Troubles the large quantity of treasures that proves to be true numerous finds has been buried, and this fact speaks, more likely, in favour of a reality ' treasures of Sigizmunda '. To whom they belonged actually is already other question.

Record on ' treasures of Sigizmunda ' passed from hand to hand in the most various versions. Invariable there were main signs: the centre ' kladonosnogo area ' in all variants of record is a certain country churchyard of Nikoly Lapotnogo. Also search ' for a treasure of the king ' some centuries. The Smolensk road was the trunk main of searches always. But actually there is no confidence that this treasure if it is, is buried there. The matter is that numerous variants ' ' specify to a record pantry similar places in Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Vladimir areas. And in a XIX-th century in Olonetsky province passed from hand to hand ' record ' with exact instructions that treasures are buried near one of the Karelian country churchyards, around Kondopoga.

It is surprising that kladoiskatelstvo was rather widespread employment in the country environment. Sometimes ' the gold-rush ' covered the whole villages and even some settlements. Instead of ploughing and sowing, muzhiks got off in artel to three hundred persons and crowd left on good luck searches. About 1890 peasants of village of Ilinsky Makarevsky district and the nearest villages have decided to find a treasure by all means. The whole spring have wandered on wood, dug at night. But have found nothing. Failure explained that there was no consent in artel - everyone thought only of the profit to the detriment of another, and in such situation treasure, as it is known, ' is not given '.

Around kladoiskatelstva were created and has put absolutely the surprising. In 1851 in Ohansky district one peasant ' it is confidential ' has told three serf workmen of count Stroganov that knows a place where the treasure for the sum to 70 thousand roubles - huge for those times money is buried. To guard a treasure it is put ' wood ' (leshy) which demands for delivery of a treasure of 1,5 thousand roubles, a bucket of vodka and a fish pie in weight in 10 pounds (4 kg).

Anything to itself appetite at ' wood '! Workmen have combed in napes: it, of course, well, not without that, however...

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Descend this night into place - precisely eyes all will see, to it! - the muzhik swore.

At night the company has gone to search for a treasure. Long made the way wood, at last left to the specified place - on the brink of a grove, about the big ant hill and an old fur-tree, it is valid on small depth in a hole the chest fettered by iron lay...

But as soon as kladoiskateli have tried to open it, from a thicket the terrible trumpet voice was distributed: ' Hey! Not trozhte a chest, not that the death to you will be fierce! If wish to receive a treasure at midnight bring money one and a half tyshchi, a bucket of wine grain and a pie fish in ten pounds, and now away from here - there is no time me here with you vozhzhatsja, I on war go!'

Kladoiskateli in fear have taken to the heels. However houses, having judged on a sober head, have decided that business standing - tea, not every day treasures in hands are given. Ordered to bake to women a pie, have run in a tavern behind a vodka bucket, poskrebli on susekam - have typed 447 roubles and at midnight, having crossed, have incurred on a treasured place gifts ' wood '.

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Your gifts I accept, - they have heard a voice leshego, - but a treasure today I will not give: month now young, a treasure to take dangerous

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There will be to you a strong mutilation. In two weeks come, yes gifts do not forget, and that of money have a little brought.

In two weeks workmen were behind a treasure again, have brought 38 roubles more, a pie and wine half-buckets. Leshy has all the same turned obstinate, has told that will give a treasure, only when they will bring the sum lacking to one and a half thousand.

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Eh, muzhiks, - razdosadovanno one of kladoiskatelej has told, - give though with half an eye at a treasure we will look.

Being concealed from leshego, muzhiks have got into a hole and have slightly opened a cover. The chest was full... Stones, beaten glass and dust.

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Ah you... Yours so!

Muzhiks have rushed to bushes, whence broadcast ' wood '. Boughs cracked, whipped a bush is leshy in the dark at full speed bolted from enraged kladoiskatelej. But has not left - have caught. Also what? By the light of lanterns workmen have identified in ' wood ' that muzhik who has guided them at a treasure...

Oh also beat him!

And in the Voronezh places the kladoiskatel-fanatic whom all edge up and down proceeded has become famous, searching for treasures of the Kudejara-ataman, one of which, on its belief, consisted from ' 60 steam rooms volovih a silver supply, 10 poods of gold and the whole tray of jewels '. Round it kladoiskatelja the whole crowd of dexterous people, vtridoroga alloying to it every possible ' record pantries ', drawings, plots, ' rupture-grass ' etc., and also type talismans ' the clay extracted at midnight from a tomb udavlennika ' which ostensibly helps to take a treasure was fed.

Contrary to the legends extended in the people about closed ' chests with gold ', one case when the similar treasure has really been found is known only: in 1985 in village Vozdvizhensky near Sergiev Posad, then

Zagorsk, from the earth have taken densely fettered two iron of a chest, and in them it has appeared about two thousand gold and silver coins of a XVIII-th century. It is interesting that the same coins have been found in this place even before war some. Then experts have assumed that they - a part of a treasure of any rich merchant. A treasure have tried to find, but unsuccessfully then have decided that it is the next myth. Nevertheless the legend about a treasure continued to occur among local residents, exciting imagination of rural children while at building of sadovo-country co-operative society this find has not been made...

It is interesting that one of chests has appeared full of holes - through this hole, probably, and have fallen out found before a coin.

About any ' a chest with gold ' told in Vjazemsky area of the Smolensk region. Under the statement of the local residents, one woman, going through wood, it was casually hooked for something and has seen an iron ring sticking out of the earth. With effort having pulled for it, it has raised a cover of a small trunk together with a ring. In a chest gold, silver coins, and from above - a gold cross lay. Pull out its woman could not and, taking as proof from a trunk some coins, has gone home and has informed on a treasure to the husband. However, how many then searched for this place, could not find.

The basic precious metal in the found treasures - silver. Thus treasures of silver coins XV-XVII of centuries can reach the huge sizes. The biggest treasure of a XVII-th century is found in Vologda - in it was 49 thousand silver copecks. Gold - very much a rare find. In Moscow, the richest city of the state, one treasure of ancient gold coins (excepting the finds concerning by a boundary of the XIX-XX-th centuries) is found only. From 44 treasures found till 1917 in Kostroma province, only in one there were gold coins - 16 pieces. ' Country ' treasures of XVIII century consist basically of copper coins, the truth, at times in gross weight in 60-80 kg and more '.

Such is a real picture, A.Nizovsky studying ancient legends considers and were about ancient ' loads '. However, who knows - can be, not all ' chests with treasures ' are dug already out kladoiskateljami XVII-XVIII centuries. Anyway, our contemporaries are deeply convinced of a reality of such treasures also...

Piracy treasures

hide — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:16:50 GMT

Pirates - the people constantly risking a life, trying not to reflect on tomorrow and consequently the riches extracted in fights with ease departured from their hands. Data on treasures of Ticha, Morgan, Kidd and other piracy captains throughout centuries have acquired such network of legends that in them it is already impossible to distinguish the truth from fiction. Undoubtedly that in numerous legends about them there is any share of true, however is not casual that finds of piracy treasures - the phenomenon exclusively rare. Here I will result only some stories about legendary piracy treasures.

If on a card of the western hemisphere from a city of Montreal on the southeast to spend a straight line to the cape Kabo-Frio located at east extremity of the South America, and then to connect a line this cape to islands the Coco in Pacific ocean, near Panama, and to spend one more line from the Coco to Montreal on a card there will be a triangle. All over the world it name "the Gold triangle" or "the Triangle of treasures". Whose treasures search here?

Battles for gold of America and India went centuries in the southern seas. As a result of treasure settled not only in treasury of kings.

In the beginning XVI centuries from America to Europe gold has rushed. Riches of Aztecs and inkov, filling holds Spanish galeonov, all for one century have increased a gold and silver stock of the European countries five times.

First the vessels going to Spain, went through Atlantic small groups without the armed escort. But it is fast on horizon dangerous competitors have loomed. In 1496 Christopher Columbus who was coming back from the second swimming, has undergone to an attack of the French corsairs. However the main threat for galeonov the Spanish fleet represented English kapery - the pirates who were in the service of the British crown. Much of them as, for example, to the well-known pirate and seafarer Frensisu Drake, the title of noble family - for the feats, the millions which have brought to its fatherland of pounds sterling has been appropriated by gold. It was "the lawful" half of extraction arriving in royal treasury after successful attacks kaperov on the Spanish vessels.

Drake has become famous for the impudent attacks on the Spanish ports in the South America and in the Spain. However the majority kaperov selected more cautious tactics: they trapped Spanish vessels coming back from America in Caribbean sea or at the Azores.

The Azores in XVI century were the main reloading point on world trading ways. Whence the ships - from America, India or Southern Africa came back, their way lay through the Atlantic thrown in open spaces of island Tersejra, to Horhe and Peak. Here were reserved by provisions and potable water. The Azores named "hotel which the Lord has put in the most suitable place of ocean".

In waters round this "hotel" tens ships are buried. In 1594 the Portuguese vessel "Chagas" came back from the Indian colony. According to certificates and archival documents, on it there were treasures by in two million of that time dukatov - gold coins, each of which weighed 3,5 grammes. It was the most expensive cargo ever going to Europe from India. Besides, onboard there were sailors from two wrecked Portuguese schooners. Swimming has appeared awful even on a measure of that, more severe time: because of excessive number of crew on a vessel epidemics several illnesses were played at once, but the scurvy has appeared the most terrible. Hourly it was necessary to dump for a board of the died. This "the floating infirmary" has appeared an easy mark for three English ships which have trapped Portugueses near one of the Azores. After rather short gun firing in powder hold of the ship fire has flashed, and the vessel has sunk in Atlantic ocean. Till now to find out its remains it was possible to nobody. Near to the Azores in 1591 Spanish "Silver fleet" (Silver Train) Also has irrevocably sunk - the ships became a victim well-known "the Plotnitsky wind". This artful southeast hurricane is named so because often washes ashore wooden fragments of the broken ships.

According to historical sources, around only one bay of Angra at island Tersejra 88 ships have sunk at least. However to search here - all the same, what to try to find a needle in a haystack. When in the summer of 1997 the Portuguese-American expedition has started to survey a bay with use of modern equipment, scientific have become gloomy. Day after day from a board of the vessel they probed a bottom special eholotami which could investigate adjournment on depth to five metres. But were convinced only that the rocks hidden by sand deform any signal. Reacting to metal magnitometry, capable to catch the slightest changes of a magnetic field, have appeared here absolutely helpless. Not gold ingots, coins, anchors or guns, and volcanic breeds containing iron forced to turn arrows of underwater compasses. "To search here such devices for metal - all the same that in a disco to listen through Mozart's ear-phones", - archeologist Paulo Montejro speaks.

Only in water area of the harbour to researchers has carried with finds. Under a layer of deposits and mountains of ballast stones they have found out the rests of four wooden courts. Fragments of oldest of them lying on depth of only seven metres, concern approximately 1500 - time when the Azores were only just open by the Spanish seafarers. Now archeologists in details survey oldest of the ship remains found here, anticipating the moment when under fragments "pot of gold" will open. However, probably that the part of riches was lifted from a bottom by the seamen who have escaped from the sunk ships. By means of diving bells and respiratory hoses they could fall on depth from ten to twenty metres.

In XVII century there were also first hunters behind the sunk gold. In 1686 Englishman William Fipps has lifted from a bottom of Caribbean sea of gold and silver for the sum equivalent to one and a half millions of the American dollars. That was only small part of treasures 16 galeonov Spanish of "Gold fleet" (Golden Fleet), sunk during a storm in 1643 on shallows of Silver-Benks to the north from Haiti. Here, around the Bahamas, Haiti (former Espanoly) and Florida strait, the Spanish treasury has lost fabulous riches within three centuries. Representation about their sizes can give "ulov" which for a day was collected by American Herbert Hamfri who has come across on galeon "Nuestra of the seigneur de las Maraviljas" - 177 ingots of silver, 15 semikilogram ingots of gold and 10 gold nuggets.

Isle of Pines (now it is called as Huventud and belongs to Cuba) was base of pirates in Caribbean sea long time. Under legends, here hid treasures Drake, Lafitt and other piracy celebrities. There were false cards on which dexterous adventurers have heated up hands. In our century here constantly came kladoiskateli, but good luck has smiled only to one of them - in the fifties American Uikker has found at an underwater reef a chest with gold and jewelry. One more known piracy place - island belonging to Costa Rica the Coco in Pacific ocean, to the north from Galapagossky islands. According to annals of the sea robbery, the first treasure was hidden here by the well-known pirate Henry Morgan who was on so good to the account at the English authorities that has finished the days as the governor of Jamaica. The number kladoiskatelej, visited on the Coco, comes nearer to one hundred. However any of them yet did not manage to find neither Morgan's treasure, nor the treasures of Lima collected by Spaniards during sovereignty in Peru and grasped in port of Callao by English captain Thompson.

Island a Coco located on 5°33 ' s.sh. And 87°2 ' z.d., for a long time already "the island of treasures", "the piracy safe" and "Mecca kladoiskatelej" is known under names. Here one and a half centuries this tiny scrap of a land covered with impassable jungle (length 6,5 km, width 3,2 km) draw to themselves attention numerous kladoiskatelej. It is counted up that for all time for it has visited over 500 expeditions which participants have enclosed million conditions in searches of treasures. Here in hundreds gibli people, but and have not found treasures...

Rather recently, summer of 1962, on island the Coco the group of kladoiskatelej-Frenchmen has landed: cave explorer Rober Vern, journalist Jean Portell and writer Claude Sharle. They have widely advertised the plans of searches of piracy gold, hoping, even if treasures will not be, fees for the book printed about adventures, a tele- and broadcasts will exceed expenses. But the destiny has solved differently... While they examined putting to sea grotto in a bay to Chats, the motor has unexpectedly decayed, and oars lay at the bottom of a boat, pressed down by tent. The sea was restless and the wave which has run sideways has overturned a boat... It is true has thrown out on rocks, and the sea has not released its two friends... Only in two months casually passing vessel has removed Is true from island.

Not without reason in one book about kladoiskateljah it has been told:

"Over treasures as if the damnation which kills soul and a body gravitates. It, of course, the general has no anything with the damnations, which pirates ostensibly said over the treasures:

"Let the one who will touch my gold hidden here, remembers that its way back is not longer than a knife blade". The avidity damnation - here that hangs over treasures. A damnation which kills..."

It is considered that the island stores in the bowels of riches of three well-known pirates: William Dampira, Alexander Graham and Thompson's Cattle. The history of a treasure which connect with names of two last pirates is interesting.

In the autumn of 1820 of an army of the liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru - general José San-Martina attacked the Spanish colonizers from the south. The capital Peru has been cut off from the north from the Spanish possession of armies of Simona of Bolivar. The vice-king of Peru Hoakin Pesuela has decided to forward the state riches to Panama. The treasures stolen by Spaniards for years of sovereignty, have been secretly delivered in port of Callao. The modern estimation of the Peruvian treasury fluctuates in following limits: 10 million peso under the version of Spaniards, 30 million pounds sterling on English and 30 million dollars under the American version. In Callao stood five ships. In hold of one of galeonov - "Relampaga" - is reserved have shipped values.

At an input to gulf of Panama "the gold" squadron was barred way by a brig of pirate Graham, on Benito Bonito's nickname...

Graham, as well as Dampir, served in royal fleet. Being the commander of a brig "Devonshire", it has caused a stir in Trafalgarsky battle. With death of Nelson the glory of heroes of Trafalgara began to die away, and Graham has left service. It has become Benito Bonito, evil deeds have got to it one more nickname - the Bloody Sword (or a sword: looking how to translate from English a word sword).

Corsairs Benito Bonito in boarding fight have seized galeonom "Relampaga". And in its hold have appeared limskie treasures! Pirates have led a vessel to island the Coco. There, on the bank of a bay of Uejfer, in an underground cave, Benito Bonito has hidden flanks and a chest with jewelry... Soon two English brigs have overtaken a piracy vessel at coast of Costa Rica. Alexander Graham has been hung up on a yard and has carried away with itself secret of a treasure.

The second legend about limskom treasure asserts that it has been sent from Callao on a piracy vessel of Cattle of Thompson of "Mary Diir". Spaniards promised to the corsair the big compensation, have shipped in hold of its brig "important state documents" and have put the protection. But it was difficult to spend Thompson. Pirates have interrupted the Spanish protection and have glanced in hold... Having chopped off an anchor rope, the artful brig has rushed in open ocean. But behind it the military ship has directed. It has caught up Thompson's vessel, the truth, only in a bay of island Uejfer with the Coco.

As treasures in hold it has not appeared any more, Spaniards have hung up everything, except Thompson and its senior navigator. Them have brought to the Panama prison, hoping to achieve a recognition. But on road the navigator has died, and the captain stored secret of a treasure, understanding that only so can save a life.

The wave of emancipating struggle has come in 1821 to Panama. It has set free prisoners of the Spanish prisons among whom there was also a Cattle Thompson. He has got over to Canada, many long years veins on Newfoundland, raising money for expedition on island the Coco. Thompson has entered into the agreement with captain Kittingom, but before the swimming hard was ill and, dying, has given Kittingu a card of island with the treasure scheme.

Expedition of Kittinga has reached islands. The captain and its new partner Boug tried to hide the purpose of visiting of the Coco from a command. Under the pretext of hunting two of them have descended on coast and it have caused suspicion in a command. Sailors in their absence have searched a cabin of the captain, have found a bag with jewels. There was an explanation, the command has demanded a sharing. Kitting and Boug have for the sake of appearances agreed, and have left a vessel at night and have hidden in a cave. Seamen did not manage to find them on island, and they have left without the captain. After a while casual kitoboets has picked up on the bank of island of the exhausted person. It was captain Kitting. He has told that its command, having lifted mutiny, has grasped a brig, and it has put ashore. Bouge Kitting did not mention. Assume that it has killed Bouga in a cave at a treasure sharing. With kitobojami it has returned in Newfoundland. In the rests of clothes it has kept a handful of jewels. Before death it has transferred Thompson's card to any friend and then it became general property. Now each interested person can buy it, and at the same time some more tens cards from "the Atlas of treasures", published in New York in 1952...

Under the legend, at a small islet Amalia the well-known pirate Edward Tich by a nickname "Black Beard" repaired the ships and buried the treasures.

As narrate the chronicles stolen treasure of Tich carried away in depth of island together with one of the sailors not grown fond to it. Tich the sailor - a box with gold and a shovel bore two peremetnye sumy with jewels, and. The captain chose a suitable place and while the sailor dug a hole, sat next and smoked a tube. After the sailor got out of a hole, it shot to it at a nape and, having lowered treasures, pushed together there and a corpse of the sailor. When after returning it asked, where the sailor Tich usually answered that that or "zavjaz in a bog", or "has broken in the sea from rocks". Tich was lost in November, 1718, and has carried away with itself in a tomb secret of treasures.

After Edward Ticha the island Amalia became base of the French pirates of brothers Jean and Pierre Lafittov. They were engaged "ekspropriatsiej ekspropriatorov" - plundered in Caribbean sea rabotorgovtsev. Having sold the grasped slaves-Negroes, they hid "the earned" money on island.

It is officially known that in 1809 Jean Lafitta's ship has been overtaken an English frigate at northern coast of Gulf of Mexico while pirates were going to unload the stolen treasures for coast. Understanding hopelessness of position, the captain has flooded the ship.

As co-ordinates of the flooded ship were precisely known, in 1949 the American firm "Kirger and Been Exploration Company" has begun prospecting works. But despite application of the technics most by newest for those times, search has not crowned success, obviously, the ship case has deeply drained in in ground silt.

Besides Ticha and Lafittov, island served as a haven still to very many gangs of pirates, therefore modern kladoiskateli constantly visit island and, with an enviable stubbornness doomed, search for treasures, applying metal detectors and other devices.

However happen also good luck: in 1939 the American expedition has found on the island Mona located in Caribbean sea between Haiti and Puerto Rico, a treasure hidden by English pirate William Dzhennigsom. From sale at auction in Chicago the found gold coins and jewelry it has been obtained about one million dollars. Here it is necessary to tell that today frequently cost of one coin much above face value. And not because the prices for gold that is why that coins is of interest already as a curiosity for collectors were raised.

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destruction concerns number of historical incidents in 1600 Spanish galeona "San Diego". This ship loaded with riches has put to sea on whim of the Spanish official only to attack on noticed near Manila shabby by storm Dutch kapersky a sailing vessel. Because of worthless command huge chetyrnadtsatipushechnoe the vessel (for those times it was rather solid arms for the ship) has been sunk at an input in manilskuju a bay. Some years ago cargo from "San Diego" was lifted from a bottom by the French archeologist-submariner Frank Goddio.

Not only riches inkov and Aztecs, but also tons of other cargoes from South East Asia carried the ships in holds. Sometimes value of these cargoes in the European markets equaled, and sometimes and surpassed gold. During two and a half centuries went from Philippines to Europe "manilskie galeony". In 1638 near island Saipan the vessel "Nuestra of the seigneur de la Concepcion", transporting porcelain, an ivory and gold was wrecked. Later 350 years the international command kladoiskatelej has got a considerable part of these treasures from a bottom. Has especially carried to one Australian who has found 32 gold chains, everyone on one and a half metre in length.

Battles for riches of East and Western India were developed not only in waters of the southern seas, but also at coast of the Spain. Most well-known of such fights has inflamed in a bay of Vito where in the summer of 1702 nineteen have come from America loaded with gold galeonov. This caravan went under protection of allies-Frenchmen which admiral Shato-Reno ordered. The hearing about valuable cargo has reached the English-Dutch squadron ransacking at the Spanish coast. Hundred ships have rushed into a bay. As a result of fierce fight of Shato-Reno with the several ships it was possible to break in the high sea. The others remained to lie at the bottom.

Since then in a bay expeditions, however treasures about which it is told in the Spanish documents were over and over again equipped, to find and it was not possible. It is necessary to assume that Shato-Reno has overloaded all values with galeonov on the ships and has taken out them to France. After all Louis XIV has made an admiral in marshals right after how that has lost battle in a bay of Vigo. It is interesting, why? Whether for rescue of the Spanish treasures?

The king kladoiskatelej Melvin Fisher

The ships lying on a sea-bottom for one - an enrichment source, for others - a relic having a huge historical value.

In 1999 Melvin Fisher - the person who posesses an informal title "the king kladoiskatelej" has died. The world popularity to it was brought by a find made at southern coast of Florida. Near the city of Key West it has lifted from a bottom precious cargo of Spanish galeona "Atocha" which have flown on reeves in 1622. It was not simply the most valuable find which cost is estimated hundreds millions dollars, is there was a dream embodiment kladoiskatelej about the ancient ship overloaded with gold and jewelry.

In magazine "hunters behind treasures" "Treasure Quest" Fisher name "the champion who has won all battles with the authorities, officials and other enemies kladoiskatelej". Among these "other enemies" not last place are occupied with the scientists-archeologists, aspiring to prevent barbarous plunder of the sunk ancient ships. Their alarm quite obosnovanna: kladoiskateli frequently destroy a vessel skeleton at attempt to lift it or simply blow up a sea-bottom to clear away to itself base for work. If searches of gold at the bottom of oceans proceed the same rates and methods under water soon there will be nothing valuable to historians, anything that could tell to us about the navigation past.

And still there are many examples really "a gold proportion" between interests of a pure science and profitable adventurism kladoiskatelej. One of them - Belgian Rober Stenjui nicknamed "underwater Sherlokom Holmes". The searches of Stenjui begins in historical archives, trying to find out a place and vessel causes of death, to imagine a historical picture of event. After one of such "investigations" the Belgian managed to find out in the western coast of Ireland the Spanish vessel "Hirona", transporting 200 thousand gold dukatov - treasury of Great armada.

There are cases when kladoiskateli during searches necessarily change "trade". So, in 1982 remains of the piracy ship for the first time have been found. The American of Barry Klifford has found "Uajdu" Black Sam was which captain well-known for Bells by a nickname. People from its command there is no time swore that by the ship there were ivory and gold tons. But anything similar Klifford has not found out. But the huge arsenal of the piracy weapon possessing considerable historical and collection value has been found. Now, to pay back expenses on expedition, Klifford will organise park-museum where the things lifted from a bottom will help to recreate life atmosphere on a piracy vessel.

Card of the well-known treasures under water and on a land

Island Ouk in bay of Fundy. Here treasures of Ticha and Lafitta are hidden.

Peninsula Cape Cod coast. A place of a find of the ship of the pirate Bells "Uajdy".

Key West. galeony "Nuestra of the seigneur de Atocha" and "Santa-Margarita" which have flown on reeves in 1622 Here were lost. Cargo of these treasures estimate in 250 million dollars though the part of treasures is already lifted.

The Bahamas. Spanish remains galeona "Concepcion", sunk in 1641 are found. Bert Vebber has lifted only small part of treasures - 32 tons of silver.

Shallows of Silver-Benks. Along shallows remains 16 Spanish galeonov, sunk in 1643 are scattered during a storm. The total cost of cargo is estimated in 65 million dollars.

Isle of Pines (Pinos). Piracy base in Caribbean sea. Probably that here have hidden the treasures Drake, Van Horn, Tich and other well-known pirates.

Bay of Samana. In 1724 Konde de Tolosa "and" Nuestra of the seigneur de to Guadeloupe "with cargo of mercury which today would estimate in 6 million dollars have sunk galeony".

Island Mona. It is considered that the treasure of pirate Jennings here is buried. Its ship found in 1939 has to the east sunk.

Bay Cumana. As a result of diversion in 1820 the Dignity-pedro de Alkantra "has blown up galeon". Harry Rizberg has lifted a part of the cargo estimated in 50 million of dollars.

Island the Coco. In the XIX-th century beginning the treasures collected by Spaniards in Peru here have been hidden.

Gulf of Tobermori. Here the ship of Great armada "Florence" is found out, but treasures has not been found.

Gulf of Vaddenze. In 1799 the ship "Ljutin" from 1 375 000 English pounds onboard has sunk gollansky.

Donegal bay. It is found galeas by "Hirona" on which board in 1588 there was a salary of Great armada.

Bay of Vigo. During battle with the English-Dutch squadron it has been sunk 17 Spanish galeonov. Their cargo is not found till now.

Azorsky islands, island Fajjal. In 1594 Englishmen have sunk the Portuguese ship "Chagas" transporting about 7 tons of gold.

Island Porto-Santo. In 1724 the Dutch ship "Slot has sunk Hooge" from 1500 bars of silver onboard rubbed. The cargo part is lifted by Belgian Stenjui.

St. Elena's island. In 1613 Portugueses have sunk here "Vitte Liuv's" Dutch ship with cargo of gold and 1311 brilliants.

Balaklavsky bay. One million pounds sterling which have sunk together with the ship "Prince" till now is not found.

Island Zanzibar. It is considered to be that treasures of English pirates of Kidd and Ejveri here are buried.

Sejshely: islands Farkuar, Aldabra, Providence, Mahe. Now here searches of treasures of the French corsairs are conducted.

Madagascar, cape Masuala. In a XVIII-th century nearby from this cape there were bases of many pirates, including Inglenda and Levassera.

Island Mauritius. Here there can be treasures of Sjurkufa - frantsuzkogo the pirate of a boundary XVIII and XIX centuries.

Island Reunion. According to certificates, here in XVIII century have hidden the treasures pirates of Inglend, Taylor and Levasser.

Strait of Malacca. In 1511 godurazbilsja on reeves a leader of the Portuguese fleet "the Crape de la Mar". Its cargo is estimated in 9 billion dollars.

Island Saipan. Here in 1638 Nuestra of the seigneur de la Concepcion "was wrecked galeon". The cargo part managed to be rescued to a command, and in 1987 kladoiskateli have found at the bottom 1300 more gold ornaments.

Manillsky gulf. The franc of Goddio has found out here sunk in 1600 Spanish galeon "San Diego".

Island Grajgen. English pirate Robertson has buried a treasure which can cost about 2 to 20 million dollars.

Tsusimsky passage. A cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" sunk by Japanese in 1905, under some data carried the salary of Russian fleet.

Treasure of the ancient Viking

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The find which has been found out recently in pojme of the river of Berezina in Borisovsky area, is unique. To tell about it more in detail we have asked the senior scientific employee of department of archeology of the medieval period of Institute of history of National academy of sciences of Belarus Oleg Iova.

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On Berezina, in that place where in 1812 the French armies were forwarded, the international scout camp was spent. Students from Belarus, and also Holland, France, the USA, Spain, Czechia investigated events of that war - searched for a place of a crossing, a burial place to establish there a monument. The senior lecturer of pedagogical university Igor Grutso, the supervisor of studies of archeological excavations - I was the project head.

And suddenly - absolutely casual find. The restorer of the Belarus state museum of history of the Great Patriotic War Sergey Zaharov has come across in pojme the rivers sword fragments. Originally it has correlated it with events of 1812, but was soon found out - the sword is dated IX-X centuries. Certainly, we have continued excavation on this place. The treasure lay under black torfjanikovym a layer on depth about twenty centimetres. Klinok a sword it is found by pieces, and the handle made from iron and covered with a silver notch, has remained. Have found 260 silver coins, so-called dirhamov Arabian Halifata. It is revealed also nine girek which soldiers-dealers used at that time, - iron with bronze notches. Each of them weighed certain quantity of grammes. After all there were no such units as, say, one dirham or two, coins were simply weighed earlier. For this purpose also served girki. It is necessary to tell, to us has very much carried. It is the first find in Belarus when the full set girek is found out. It will help to study weight system of those times.

Besides, the big fragment of a high-standard silver bracelet is found. It, most likely, used not as an ornament, and as settlement means: if it is necessary to buy something, broke off a piece, weighed - and purchase and sale was made.

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How all this medieval set has got in I will understand the Belarus river?

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Before the termination of examination of anything it is impossible to confirm, but my version is that. The Viking was the owner of these things. At that time they widely traded on all our river water area. To me it is thought, there was a following. The Viking floated by the ship when there was a skirmish either with companions, or with any enemy. Most likely, the sword was at it in a hand because a sheath it is not found. The person have hard wounded or have killed, it has fallen in water, and things which with it were, remained in the river. podumattolko, they have lain in pojme the rivers about ten centuries!

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Where now there is a treasure and what its further destiny?

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Now it on studying in National academy of sciences. The first results have shown that the considerable part of coins - from Bagdad and is dated the beginning of IX century. But will be, probably, and coins of X century. It will help to specify sword and treasure dating as a whole. But examination will occupy long enough time, I think, till the spring. Then we will solve where to store it further.