Black objects at the bottom of the river. Search for coins and treasures along the banks of rivers, lakes, reservoirs

The search for coins and treasures along the banks of rivers, lakes, reservoirs is a very promising business, and with the right approach, it can bring a lot of finds.

I think all treasure hunters know that they tried to build settlements near natural reservoirs. This desire arose among our ancestors by no means by chance.

The proximity of water was of great importance, since in those distant past times there was no pipeline, and there was no faucet with hot and cold water.

In the reservoir: they washed clothes, bathed and bathed, took water for household needs (to drink, water cattle, water gardens) and other needs. On the banks of the rivers from ancient times, the people organized festivities, fistfights, in general, they had fun after hard working days.

And of course, under the influence of alcohol, during a fight, or just when undressing to swim, people lost: coins, crosses, chains, rings and other valuables that we are so persistently looking for.

In winter, the river played the role of a transport route; various goods were transported by sleigh along the ice downstream or upstream for exchange or sale to other villages, or to a large county town, if it was not far away.

They also organized mini-fairs, well, it is known where the goods are, there is money, coins were lost from "frozen" hands, fell out of the pocket along with the handkerchief taken out, etc. Such "losses" fell on the snow - ice, and when the snow melted in the spring, they ended up on the river bottom. If it is in shallow water, then you can get it, as I will tell you later.

First, let's look at promising places to search.

1. Gentle slope of the river bank;
2. Shallow water, or the bottom of a river or lake;
3. Sand, which is periodically washed by a dredger from the bottom of the reservoir;
4. Paths that descend to the river (you must definitely look for them, there are a large number of finds);
5. High bank of the river;
6. Places where rivers merge, especially note the presence of a moat, or hill, it is a great fortune to discover them.

All these places are the most valuable in terms of finding coins and other valuables of antiquity, and according to the statistics of treasure hunters, there are the most finds there.

To search for coins in the shallow water of a river, you need to purchase a metal detector with a sealed coil (for example), such a coil is specially designed for searching in water, we examine shallow water, and do not forget about safety precautions.

Do not pay attention to the fishermen sitting next to or opposite, if asked, answer that you lost the chain last year, it is unnecessary to dedicate them to all the intricacies of the search, people are different.

Usually, a river bank has sandy and clay soil, and as you know, coins are well preserved in this type of soil, so there are not very many "cocalics".

To search at the bottom of rivers and lakes, one waterproof coil is indispensable, and generally put the metal detector aside, we need a "search magnet". Buying it now is not a problem, it is not very expensive.

In any case, you will quickly pay for the magnet, especially if you hand over ferrous metal at the same time, which you will come across a lot when searching. There were cases when gold and silver coins were taken from the bottom of the rivers with a search magnet. royal coins, so I think it's worth a try, especially since the search on the beaches and river banks is allowed by the new law of Mr. Putin.

The old watermills deserve special attention. But it is very difficult to look for them, I will talk about this in a future article in more detail, but now I will say that "water mills" were built in the narrowest part of the river, where the current is fast, and you need to look not for the mill itself (of course, you need to find it first), but the final and long-awaited goal is the miller's house, where all calculations for grinding were carried out.

It is there, according to the reports of treasure hunters, that there are deposits of small (mostly) coins. I have been looking for one mill for the past three years, the village was just huge and located on a vast territory, so the search area is very large, and so square by square, I hope to find it soon.

It was not possible to calculate along the riverbed, it most likely changed directions many times.

As for the treasures, I personally know the comrade who found in the reeds a box with ten silver rubles of Catherine II!!!

I think my advice, and in general, the article will help you at least a little in your search along the banks of rivers and lakes, and you will find your treasure, or a few rarities. Good luck. Read our blog...

18/07/2012

Petersburgers, who often visit the city center, must have caught the eye of the iron monster that settled on the Fontanka. He slowly moves from bridge to bridge and has now settled down behind Lomonosov Street. This "Lenvodkhoz" cleans the bottom of the river. Alexander Yakovlev, head of the production department, spoke about what finds are found in the depths of St. Petersburg.

D engi from mud

City rivers and canals are cleaned according to plan. Each site is held approximately once every five to seven years. During this time, the bottom can rise by tens of centimeters. Silt is washed away so quickly. The volume is also added by sand, which is sprinkled on roads in winter, and in spring it is washed away by rains into the water. And of course, household waste, tons of which settle in rivers and canals.

“In a year, we collect and take out to the landfill more than one and a half thousand cubic meters of garbage collected in city water bodies,” said Alexander Yakovlev.

The dirtiest rivers are those that flow in the city center and make several bends on their way. They contain most of the waste thrown out by people. But in Obvodny, silt accumulates, in some places its layer reaches one meter. Its course brings from Ladoga. From there, reeds float into the city every spring. Fontanka in this sense is much cleaner. In it, the level of dirt between cleanings rises only by 30-50 centimeters.

- On the surface of the water, the main garbage is empty cans, bottles, bags, wrappers. On holidays, the amount of dirt increases by an order of magnitude, and we have to call in additional teams to work,” says Yakovlev.

And at the bottom of city rivers there are deposits of metal - pipes, wire, pieces of tin, parts of unknown origin. The other day, workers pulled a ship's anchor out of the water.

- Often come across sewer manhole covers, embankment fencing links and granite cladding tiles, there are road signs, came across plates with the names of bridges, and even old ones, of the nineteenth century, - said Alexander Yakovlev.

The closer to the city center, the denser the bottom is dotted with coins. Moreover, the tradition of throwing money into the water in order to return to the place you like, obviously existed in St. Petersburg in the old days. Workers very often come across coins that are more than a hundred years old. And modern rubles and kopecks, if you set a goal, can be collected in whole three-liter jars. But it's too dirty.

Sometimes cleaners, however, get whole wallets. But they don't usually have money. Pickpockets took all the cash, and the evidence was thrown into the water.

Car engines crawl along the Fontanka

The bottom is cleaned in three ways. The main one is with the help of a dredger: the unit, moving around the water area, scoops up bottom sediments with boilers. It is precisely such a car that citizens can now see on the Fontanka (before that, it passed along the river in 2003). Similar work is being done in this moment and on the Obvodny Canal.

- But along the bottom of the St. Petersburg rivers and canals, a lot of communications have been laid - gas pipes, communication cables and electricity. The dredger buckets can damage them, - explains the head of the production department of Lenvodkhoz. “Therefore, washout complexes are used near such places, which, with the pressure of water, sweep silt to a safe place. Plus, divers work, they clear the bottom directly above the communications, and also raise large-sized debris from the depth.

On the cleared section of the Fontanka, Lenvodkhoz's catch this year was two car engines at once. How they got into the water is a mystery. There are no auto repair shops nearby. It is along the banks of the Krasnenkaya River that there are a lot of transport enterprises, and there the workers are not surprised at the deposits of tires and engine innards.

- Apparently, these engines "sailed" to the Fontanka, - Alexander Yakovlev jokes. I don't see any other explanation. Slowly they rolled over, stretched.

In the same amazing way, hooks and axes float along the Fontanka. But these are at least clear where they come from. Most likely, they fall from pleasure boats.

Alloy on cabinets

If you do not clean the city rivers, then the natural process of swamping will begin. Algae will grow along the coast (Lenvodkhoz systematically mows them), and the channels will become shallow. Now the regulated depth of the same Fontanka is 2.7 meters. Up to this level, the workers clear the bottom. What small city rivers can turn into, St. Petersburg residents learned as soon as they began to develop this area. In 1735, Empress Anna Ioannovna, by the highest order, forbade dumping garbage into the Moika, so as not to turn it into a sewer. At the same time, the river was for the first time indicatively cleaned.

The dredgers and scuba divers never told their bosses about the valuable finds at the bottom. There were shells from the blockade. Periodically, pieces of furniture float along the rivers - tables, cabinets. On them, extreme citizens and residents of the region float downstream. Having reached the end point of their route, they send the "ship" to free navigation. Once, a Rozenlev refrigerator was found in the water (and in working order!). The 1990s were rich in such finds. Then St. Petersburg was most like Venice, where it is still popular to send old things into the canals directly from the windows.

Despite all these underwater surprises, the Fontanka remains a fairly clean and transparent river. Visibility in it, according to divers, is up to three meters.

“Thanks to our work, the rivers in St. Petersburg are not as dirty as in Europe,” Yakovlev is sure. “And they certainly don't smell like the canals of Amsterdam.

Waterfowl butterflies

The iron monster, spreading its "tentacles" along the Fontanka, is distinguished by one touching detail. A giant butterfly settled on its body. Still, nothing human is alien to workers. This decoration, of course, was not included in the factory equipment of the dredger. Butterfly - the catch of workers during their watch on the Smolenka River. A few years ago, they cleaned its bottom, and once this wooden butterfly swam up to the unit. Most likely, before she decorated the playground. She was caught, dried and left to live on a dredge.

What is caught in other cities

Moscow

Parking is so tight in the white-stone street that in winter the townspeople are happy to park right on the ice of rivers and ponds, if they can only find a convenient access to them. It is not surprising that divers find dozens of cars at the bottom of Moscow reservoirs. They also found toilet bowls, gas stoves, cannonballs.

Amsterdam

In an Amsterdam joke, their canals are half water and half bicycles. Thousands of these vehicles lie underwater. Periodically, two-wheelers are taken out and sent to landfills. But their place is immediately taken by new "drowned". And the thing is that in the capital of the Netherlands it is not customary to ride a bike for more than two or three years.

London

The tides are very visible on the Thames. When the water recedes, the shores littered with debris are exposed. From time to time, local volunteers come out to clean them. According to their observations, among other things, carts stolen from supermarkets, as well as weapons, are very often dumped into the Thames.

Delhi

The main city of India stands on the banks of the Yamuna River, a tributary of the great Ganges. It floats and everything that you can imagine sinks in it. But the worst thing is the dead. Such is the Indian rite of burial. They send the corpses afloat. Bodies sink, then float up and sink again until they are eaten by local crocodiles and other non-squeamish inhabitants of muddy waters.

Jakarta

The Citarum River, which flows through the island of Java and feeds the capital of Indonesia, is considered the dirtiest river in the world. In places, water is not visible under a layer of debris. All the fish in this river have long since died. And the former fishermen were retrained as scavengers. They fish out of the water what can be handed over for money - plastic, rubber. But that doesn't make it less trash. A layer of several meters has accumulated at the bottom. Yes, and on the surface it is so dense that even metal and glass do not sink, supported by plastic .

Rare wood, precious material - bog oak - costs an average of $ 2,000 1 m3.
Unlike other trees, such a tree lived two lives on Earth: a plant life, filled with the energy of growth and power, and a secret, hidden from the sun and eyes, life under water.

This second life began many centuries ago, when, subject to intergalactic laws, the rivers changed their course. Time washed away the coast, and trees from coastal oak forests were under water, where they remained until an inquisitive person discovered them.


Only in the post-Soviet space such huge reserves of bog oak have been preserved. For example, in European countries, the discovery of a single specimen of bog oak has been an event for 100 years. And such findings are reported in the media.




For 100 years, many enterprising people in all corners of Russia have been harvesting bog oak. Mostly bog oak in the composition of other firewood was used as fuel.


Once, having pulled the trunk to the surface and tried to process it, he was amazed at the beauty and strength of the resulting wood. Admiring, the person asked himself the question: what unknown force turned the familiar oak into a mysterious material, covered on the surface with torn pieces of coal, and inside hiding the strongest, smoky, lively, unique texture of the material? And he began to look for answers to his questions, working with bog oak and giving it a third life...


In Russia, furniture sets and souvenirs were created from bog oak, which now occupy pride of place in museums of fine arts and antique shops all over the world.


Not a single foreign furniture company can offer for public viewing products worthy of natural bog oak. This is the prerogative of only Russian masters. Since from the beginning of the millennium to the present day, relict oak forests throughout the world have been completely destroyed, the reserves of bog oak have remained only in Russia.

Diver... Imagination draws the ocean coast, shoals of outlandish fish and a contented scuba diver. Although the passion for diving is in no way associated with the cold north, in Tyumen there are several hundred of those who have seen the bottom of all the rivers and lakes of the region and made expeditions to the Urals. Dive in our latitudes as much as possible! And let the reservoirs be inferior to the Maldivian shores, but they are their own, relatives. But diving is not just a hobby for the soul. It is also about helping people. Andrey Shelpakov, an experienced diver, an international category instructor in technical and recreational diving, a professional diver, head of the diving center Andrey Shelpakov, spoke about what can be found at the bottom of Tyumen reservoirs, about the dangers of diving and about the signs of Komsomolskaya Pravda - Tyumen.

Mysterious finds

Andrey Shelpakov from Tyumen has been diving for more than 17 years. Previously, he conquered mountain peaks, now he cannot live without water depths. He says it has always been interesting to see what the water hides.

“What is underwater is a big secret. And personally I'm interested to see it. And the underwater world is very beautiful: at the bottom there are whole meadows of algae, various fish that swim around you at arm's length... Water hides a lot - shark teeth, mammoth tusks, pots of gold coins and even figurines. This is the little that I and my fellow divers found in the water, - says Andrey.

Many begin to get involved in scuba diving to find treasures. And they do find it. Divers who manage to find valuables at the bottom carefully store artifacts and try not to show them to anyone. After all, sometimes the find is estimated at several tens of thousands of dollars! Some values ​​are handed over to the museum, and something is left as a keepsake.

For example, about ten years ago, a Tyumen diver Evgeny found an old skull at the bottom of Lake Andreevsky, the cost of which is estimated at 10,000 US dollars. After all, the safety of the skull is excellent, despite its age - at least 5000 years. The find is valuable for both scientists and underwater trophy hunters. They say that a local oligarch was going to buy the artifact from Yevgeny. He dreamed of exhibiting a copy and a local museum. But it didn't work out. Now the diver does not show the find to anyone. The scuba diver also refused to contact the journalists of KP-Tyumen.

As Andrey Shelpakov says, at the bottom of the reservoirs of the Tyumen region you can find fossils of ancient animals, sometimes - ancient coins. But serious treasures are not hidden in our lakes and rivers. In contrast, for example, from the neighboring Sverdlovsk region. Divers still find valuables from the Yekaterinburg Mint there.

Underwater criminal world

There are no valuable treasures in our region (perhaps they have not been found yet), but the underwater world of Tyumen is full of ... criminal finds. According to divers, at the bottom they regularly find both echoes of the 90s and traces of today's crimes. Sawn safes, license plates, knives mobile phones and weapons of all shapes and sizes… Surviving weapons are handed over to the police. The rotten instrument of crime, which is of no value, is thrown away.

But this is not the worst. While scuba diving, Tyumen scuba divers also find human remains. Andrei's colleague Vladimir twice stumbled upon the corpses of dead people.

“I won’t say which lake it happened on. Somehow I went to rest with my family, took a scuba gear. I sank to the bottom and noticed jeans in the seaweed. He swam closer - like a human skeleton. But it looks bad. Upset, of course, but I thought that it seemed. The next day I decided to check again. The algae opened up - indeed, at the bottom was the corpse of a girl. Called the police. Turns out she went missing 5 years ago. She was killed, and a rail was tied to the corpse and thrown into the water, - Vladimir throws up his hands.

By the way, law enforcement officers and rescuers sometimes ask divers to help them in their work. Tyumen scuba divers try not to refuse and go out as volunteers to look for drowned or missing people.

If they had seen, they would not have entered the water

Interestingly, divers themselves do not swim in Tyumen reservoirs. And they don't let their children. They say that the rivers in Tyumen and the region are so dirty that swimming in them, to put it mildly, is dangerous.

Of course, tires and plastic bottles can be found in any river, lake, quarry. But in Tyumen, according to divers, the situation is simply critical.

- Our reservoirs are not cleaned well. Well, or pretend to clean. Tires, plastic and beer bottles, broken glass, construction debris... This is a small fraction of what is at the bottom. And people swim in it, - Andrey states. And he says that an attempt by divers to clean one of the reservoirs led to the fact that several KAMAZ trucks of garbage were taken out of a small lake! True, the city administration does not ask local divers to clean the reservoirs. Manage on their own. But divers believe that unsuccessfully.

Hobbies for the rich

Although diving is not only a hobby, but also an occupation useful for society, however, it is considered a hobby for wealthy Tyumen residents. Only scuba gear (without an air tank), a mask and fins for diving will cost at least 60,000 rubles. The tank also needs to be refilled regularly. A separate budget item is a wetsuit. The colder the water, the more expensive it is. If you want to swim in our latitudes, you will have to pay about 80,000 rubles for it. Of course, diving equipment can be rented, but it will only be issued to a certified diver.

– But an inexperienced person simply will not be able to dive with equipment. It is not simple. You need to be able to calculate the dive, be able to handle complex equipment. Therefore, in any case, he will need to undergo training, - says Andrey. – That is why we rent equipment only to certified divers. Otherwise, it may not return to us, stay together with the lover at the bottom of the reservoir.

They will also train a diver for a pretty tidy sum - 24,000 rubles. This includes theoretical lessons, several dives in the pool, and then in real conditions.

Where to swim

There are about 300 people in Tyumen who consider themselves divers. Some of them prefer to dive in warm countries. It is not surprising: in summer the temperature at the bottom of the Tyumen reservoirs does not rise above +6 degrees. And visibility sometimes leaves much to be desired.

by the most the best places Andrey considers mountain lakes of the Sverdlovsk region and old quarries flooded with water to dive. Their depth sometimes reaches 130 meters. In the Tyumen region, the diver prefers to dive on the Blue Lakes, Perevalovsk and Bogandinsky quarries. These places are very popular among local divers. True, it is preferable to dive there in winter - there are no drains, clay, and you can safely admire the sleeping fish.

Who can dive? Andrei says that special abilities, with the exception of those forces that are required for training, are not required. The main thing is the absence of obvious health problems, when diving is generally impossible. For example, with problems with the respiratory or circulatory system, with the consequences of serious traumatic brain injuries. Diving is done by children from eight years old, and people with disabilities, even in the absence of arms or legs.

– Do divers have signs before diving?

Yes, you can't take pictures. Where this notion came from, I don't know. And I don’t comply, - Andrey smiles.

The Amstel is a river in the Netherlands that flows into the North Sea. At the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. in the river delta a small village arose - the future Amsterdam. The settlement grew, enveloping the river channels with a network of streets, striving downstream to the sea.

Not so long ago, in the sprawling city, there was a need to build new subway lines, so for safety reasons, several water areas had to be drained.

It turned out that the channels of the river flowing within the city are a real archaeological repository. Archaeologists have a rare opportunity to study objects that have fallen to the bottom of the river over the course of dozens of generations.

During the study, the specialist managed to collect more than 700,000 different finds. Among them come across both objects of the modern era and real historical artifacts: medieval dishes, cutlery, kitchen utensils, coins, smoking pipes of various sizes ...

Upon completion of the search work, the archaeologists of Amsterdam created the website belowthesurface, where you can learn more about what has been accumulating at the bottom of the river for centuries.