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gManTexas wrote:It is about to be summer in Boston. High time someone dug up a casque.

no time like the high time gman! welcome back! this could be the year for it!

strike13 wrote:

gManTexas wrote:It is about to be summer in Boston. High time someone dug up a casque.

no time like the high time gman! welcome back! this could be the year for it!

Get busy with a shovel!

BINGO wrote:

GPR update!!!
This thing is right next to useless. One could spend a lifetime digging up all of the rocks and other miscellaneous subsurface crap that this thing chronicles.

Other than it being a neat new toy to tinker with, we are probably better off sticking to the basics and solve the puzzles as intended.

Bingo you need to recreate a casque
bury it and then see what results you get from that....

maltedfalcon wrote:Bingo you need to recreate a casque
bury it and then see what results you get from that....

Well, I do have a lid to start with...
The fruit of a dig requested by erexere. The initial excitement was equal to the eventual let down.

fyi that looks like a side , not a lid , and its way too thin

maltedfalcon wrote:
fyi that looks like a side , not a lid , and its way too thin

I have small hands...
It measured just under 5" square and it was 1/8" thick, smaller than the lid in both dimensions. It was a heart stopper when it came out of the hole. It was pretty clear, pretty quickly that it wasn't what we had hoped it was.

maltedfalcon wrote:Bingo you need to recreate a casque
bury it and then see what results you get from that....

Not an expert on GPR, but have some experience with it. With the proper antenna, helpful for ruling out possible dig sites but ‘positive finding’ does not confirm casque/object is necessarily buried in ground either. Knowing the specifics of the GPR antenna is critical in helping to locate an object 3-4 feet underground. I have been told that an 800 MHz antenna can detect objects as small as 2 inches in diameter and penetrate 3-4 feet in depth. Would seem ideal for this hunt assuming worst case scenario and the cask is cracked into pieces.

davinci4 wrote:Not an expert on GPR, but have some experience with it. With the proper antenna, helpful for ruling out possible dig sites but ‘positive finding’ does not confirm casque/object is necessarily buried in ground either. Knowing the specifics of the GPR antenna is critical in helping to locate an object 3-4 feet underground. I have been told that an 800 MHz antenna can detect objects as small as 2 inches in diameter and penetrate 3-4 feet in depth. Would seem ideal for this hunt assuming worst case scenario and the cask is cracked into pieces.

Is this not the exact issue with GPR? It would show everything that is 2 inches in diameter up to a 3-4 ft depth. People underestimate the amount of rock and other debris that is buried which will be detected.

The way I see it, GPR is a good option if you have a general idea of an area, the cooperation of the location, and time. Think Expedition Unknown in St. Augustine. If you have a fairly precise location, GPR will likely be an unnecessary step.

BINGO, try your toy over here:

http://tinyurl.com/y68mwfcq

Sure will.
That seems like a logical solution. A square and a circle that are in close proximity to each other in the image most surely point directly to the very similarly situated Ether and White monuments in the Public Garden. That is, of course, after one applies the even more logical intersecting vectors from a google map.
So simple. I can’t imagine how no one has figured that out yet.

hehe... I got a couple of balls to post about on Image 3 thread.