Hello everyone. Could anyone offer an opinion over what we found in our site? We detected a strong ideo-motor response over a spot which we intended to dig later. It was at the base of a huge, old mango tree which had recently died and beside a somewhat big stone right beside the tree. Before we dug, we enlisted the help of Victor Rocales with the aid of his home-made GPR and pulse induction detector and who had to enplane from faraway Cebu City. He did his thing over the area and thought it was positive. When we dug it up, we found two red spanish bricks at 4 feet. Then some layers of stone and gravel and then another layer of pure soil. We reached down to 17 feet and we hit water so stopped until our water pump arrives.
While waiting we decided to enlarge our hole, this time digging beneath the tree. When we removed the big stone, we came upon an old grenade (American I think) and I almost dived when I saw it. Luckily, it did not explode as the detonator must have been stuck up by the rust. We quickly buried it away for safety purposes.
We continued to dig straight down and saw three different layers soil, rock and soil. We reached maybe fifteen feet and stopped because of the super typhoon and escaped to Baguio. My companions say they recovered a square rock which they though was a marker.
Now what puzzles me is the purpose of the grenade? If it exploded, it would have attracted attention to the spot and invite diggers, the very opposite that the treasure owner would like. Could it have been a decoy to draw attention away from the real spot? And why is it an American grenade? Would it have been used by a Japanese soldier as a marker?
I was not able to take pictures of the grenade because I disdained going near it then but I shall post a picture of what it resembles.
