Don't leave your money by a fence post in the snow either
Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)
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Re: Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)
#22This would have made a nice scene in that awful Imitation Game film, unlike the rubbish they actually put in (as well as other tales of the real Turing - the gas mask worn during hay fever season, for example).
It was used in the semi-historical Cryptonomicon
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Lw-00wTgBy8C&pg=PA173&l...
Re: Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)
#23Number one lesson: Don't bury stuff and expect to find it later. Seriously, folks. I grew up around a bunch of preppers and general outside-the-law folks. Burying things in ammo cans was kind of a pastime of a lot of people I knew. It's _really_ hard to find something like that a year or two later, even if you think you know exactly where it is. I've been the person wielding the shovel to dig up a box of important st…
The story asserts the landmarks changed, but can't you pick landmarks that won't change? Better yet, use GPS and grab the Lat/Long.
You know about continental drift, right?
Re: Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)
#24Don't leave your money by a fence post in the snow either
well maybe it would be better if you marked which fence post it was with something that you'd have in your car like maybe an ice scraper...
Re: Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)
#25Don't leave your money by a fence post in the snow either
What the heck do ya mean?
Re: Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)
#26My relatives did this when fleeing from the bolsheviks. When they returned a hotel had been built where they buried their treasure. So much for the family fortune. They owned gemstone mines.
Is it safe to say that the construction crew who excavated the foundation had a very good Christmas that year?
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#27Re: Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)
#28My relatives did this when fleeing from the bolsheviks. When they returned a hotel had been built where they buried their treasure. So much for the family fortune. They owned gemstone mines.
Is it safe to say that the construction crew who excavated the foundation had a very good Christmas that year?
If they used heavy equipment to do the digging, it's unlikely they even saw the cache.
Re: Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)
#29I worked on a farm in the former West Germany (BRD), before the re-unification, not far over the border from East Germany (DDR). The proprietor's family was leasing the historic farmstead. His family's original farm had been just over the border in the DDR, and of course appropriated by the government. At the point they learned the American occupiers were withdrawing and they would be in the Russian occupation zone,…
how has that silver been spent?
Re: Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (2016)
#30Number one lesson: Don't bury stuff and expect to find it later. Seriously, folks. I grew up around a bunch of preppers and general outside-the-law folks. Burying things in ammo cans was kind of a pastime of a lot of people I knew. It's _really_ hard to find something like that a year or two later, even if you think you know exactly where it is. I've been the person wielding the shovel to dig up a box of important st…
The story asserts the landmarks changed, but can't you pick landmarks that won't change? Better yet, use GPS and grab the Lat/Long.
You bury something and it's outside, there's no climate control, some random metal detectorist might find your thing, maybe someone will have spotted you finishing burying the thing, no saying. Just rent a storage unit or safety deposit box. Locks are better than dirt for protecting things.