This Man Find A Treasure With A Metal Detector, You Won’t Believe What He Found

[Music] ever since the very young age of 12 mike smith was obsessed with his metal detector he would spend his entire days scouring the fields woods and other locations in search of buried treasure.s he would stumble across some valuable items sometimes but mostly all he got was junk and buried metal he was looking for the dream to find something extraordinary in his wild hunt and one day he did just that despite the fact that he was always in a constant hunt for a treasure mike never expected to be jolted by a loud beat from his machine as he was on his daily wandering trips the adrenaline was rushing through his veins as he moved his detector over the wet soil the beeping was the loudest he ever heard what could possibly be under the ground never expected to dig up such a monumental treasure buried underground he always knew me find a treasure but never expected to come across such finding and he definitely didn't anticipate having the authorities involved as well after the initial beep mike decided to sweep the rest of the field and see if there would be another beep when he walked away usually when a person walks away from a find the beeping grows fainter and fainter until it stops all together but that wasn't the case for mike which was very strange whatever was in there was huge the further mike walked away from the first spot his detector beat the louder it sounded could it be a mere machine malfunction or was the entire ground filled with metals when mike's detectors started going off all around the field no matter where he stood he had a beep he knew that there was nothing left to do but trust his gut feeling and it was telling him to start digging for treasure grabbing his handy shovel he started digging in the damp soil mike had no idea what he was about to uncover lying under his feet for long decades mike had found a few useless coins and old pennies in that spot before this time however he had dug up something else very carefully he lifted the small metallic object out of the dirt it didn't look like a coin as it had the same round shape and size after rubbing some of the earth off the surface an engraving began to appear mike flipped the object this way and that trying to figure out what the object was when he flipped it he found an ingrained figure on one side while the other had some kind of message even though the object looked a lot like a coin mike was certain it wasn't a coin the reason he was sure about it was the fact that there was a ring attached to its top almost as if it was attached to a chain or clip at some point in time mike didn't take long analyzing the artifact he had in hand as he had just spotted another object in the dirt unlike his first finding this one was completely buried and stuck in the mud as his shovel wasn't doing much mike decided to put it down and started digging with his bare hands unfortunately even though he was full of hands digging the object wouldn't budge even when mike sat back on his heels to get a better grip no matter how hard mike pulled the object wouldn't move which was odd as the rusty old piece of metal didn't look to be that heavy mike was stuck so he decided to change his plan mike got back down on his needs and started moving the soil around the artifact hypothetically this should loosen the object enough for mike to be able to pull it out of the ground however not all things in life work according to hypothetical assumptions during his second attempt at shipping the soil mike started to notice that the mysterious object was actually connected to something else which was probably why the object wouldn't budge no matter how hard and deep he dug with more questions than answers mike intrigued as ever continued digging what else could possibly be down there what he was about to uncover would change his life forever as any good treasure hunter would do mike continued dating around the stubborn object after some time of dating he came across yet another object and then a third and that's when he realized that the mysterious round objects were in fact links the question that begged the answer now was what on earth could these chains have been used for and why were they buried so deep underground as mike dug up more and more of the mysterious links they seemed to go on forever as he only kept uncovering more and more that is until he came to the end of the ancient chain as the sun started to sun mike knew it was time for him to pack up and leave whatever was buried beneath him was going to have to wait until sunrise as mike lay in bed that night an incredible flow of thoughts overwhelmed him was he going to uncover something as old as time was his discovery going to make the world change could his discovery be one of those ancient burial chambers as frightening as the thought was mike was more eager than ever to get back to the farm and uncover more of the mystery right at sunrise mike was out the door heading straight for the exact same spot he left the mysterious chain that was nagging at him the entire night he desperately needed to find out what was on the other end and why it was so heavy mike found his side exactly the way he left it he could know for sure that there was no one sniffing around his previous findings as more links popped out of the ground he noticed something odd there was a big hole beneath the chain without a second thought mike thrust his shovel into the hole hoping that it would help with leverage he never imagined that the ground would open up beneath his feet mike fell straight through the ground and landed only a few feet below the surface he wasn't injured and was still wearing his backpack that held a flashlight turning the flashlight on mike realized that he hadn't fallen into any hole he was actually in a chamber of some kind as he took a closer look at the floor walls and ceiling fear began to creep into mike's chest and his heart started racing what had he accidentally uncovered beneath the farm as he further inspected the cavern walls a bit closer he discovered strange scratches littering almost every surface even though they were strange something about the frantically scratched markings felt familiar almost as if mike had seen them somewhere before he went to the wall with the most vivid markings and ran his fingers over them as he took in the etchings he realized that his fingers formed vv it didn't take long for him to realize the v's were repeated over and over dozens of times all over the chamber walls the haunting dv symbol started to make mike uneasy and he was actually starting to get the fright of the odd place the markings were all over the cavern walls and the symbols seemed to be scratched into the stone by someone with trembling hands mike had no idea what he had come across and he was definitely not prepared for the big reveal being the treasure hunter that he is mike decided to follow the markings and see where things would lead to the markings led him to yet another hole in the ground with something entirely covered in mud at its entrance mike couldn't keep the shock off his face when he finally chalked up the courage to wipe the mud off of the new discovery underneath all of the hardened earth was something brown and hard mike knew exactly what he was looking at but couldn't didn't want to believe it mike knew the laws that came with discoveries such as this and he knew that he had no choice but to let the authorities on his finding what first started as a casual afternoon excursion soon became a frightening discovery of many human remains there were a number of possible reasons as to why someone would be buried beneath the farm and each one was more frightening than the other coming out of his thoughts about the reasons why human remains would be buried in such deep chambers underground might realize that he was actually still holding the object the human remains were still in his hands the artifact removal process first started in june four months after mike's february discovery with the proper game plan and excavation instruments archaeologists were able to uncover two rusted chariot wheels confirming that they were about to discover something huge mike had to call someone to come for help not only was he down in a dark hole with no way to get back to the surface he had also just stumbled upon human denture a lot of it he dropped everything and scrambled for his cell phone mike decided to give a call to the officials of the national museum of wales however their response was not what he was expecting it was disappointing to say the least the officials laughed at him not believing one word he was saying about the discovery made thinking it was nothing but a prank call what the archaeologists said at the time was that because there had never been a fine down here before they didn't believe it mike said during an interview he had to change their opinion about his findings the question was how then it came to him mike forgot to mention that he had actually found human remains and not just an ancient chain and weird engravings in a cavern underground once he mentioned that crucial detail the officials at the museum were no longer laughing they knew something was up mike sent them his exact location and awaited the scientists and rescue party when the museum officials and archaeologists finally arrived at the site they were in complete awe in an interview mike said the look on their faces when they saw it set at all aside from the authorities taking mike seriously he was glad to have someone to rescue him from the grave he was almost buried in going back to the initial discovery of the rusted chain mike made peace with the fact that he would never figure out what the chain was used for let alone what it was attached to luckily everything changed with the help of the museum professionals in an interview mike said my first find was a celtic horse harness junction peace when i founded my friends said i would never top it but the next day i went back and found the rest talk about proving your friends wrong according to the archaeologist rachel hall the connected vvd is actually called a witch mark they were meant to keep witches from entering a building and the specific engravings mike found are known as mirian marks believed to be the initials of the virgin mary the mark is meant to protect the site the cavern markings were different though they were scratched into the wall frantically and they were all over the place not just in one specific place archaeologist allison fear believes that the 14th and 18th century markings were the town's people's way of keeping demons from gracing the earth considering that the markings are carved into most of the available surface of the cavern mike agreed with the theory townspoke must have thought that the chamber was the entrance to the underworld which is a thought that was not taken lightly in 14th century europe and that's not everything allison detected from the virgin mary symbols there was more to it even though the markings tend to symbolize protection against demons and other evil spirits there was another theory some believe that the village of pembrokeshire was facing an onslaught of famines disease or poverty all of which can be blamed on evil forces john charlesworth a retired professor of the new testament language and literature explains that the superstitious nature surrounding the symbols probably engulfed the townspeople the location of the village along with the deep cavern made them fearful of the unknown there was more to uncover and they weren't ready for what they were about to find despite the fact that the townspeople believed the cavern to be the home of demons or at least the entrance to their world either a queen or chieftain was definitely buried with their chariot at mike site mike said i knew the importance of them straight away i'd read all about chariot burials and just wished it could have been me so finding this has been a privilege archaeologists believe that the chariot is 2 500 years old and contrary to what mike originally believed there were actually no human remains the tooth mike found belonged to one of the horses that was buried alongside the queen or chieftain and the chariot and after further research he found out that high-ranking officials of the iron age would typically be buried with their weapons chariot and their horses mike explained that in a typical burial the chariot wheels would be laid flat however this was not the case with his discovery he believes that instead of the high-ranking official being buried next to the chariot they were buried inside the chariot sitting straight up after learning more about his discovery mike couldn't believe that he was able to uncover such a rich history only with his metal detector and this was only the beginning after museum officials roped off the area to the public they'd brought in the big instruments the real excavation work was about to begin considering all of the tiny artifacts mike has stumbled across a ground penetrating raider over the farm was necessary to uncover everything that was buried after surveying the land the archaeologists uncovered what could be described as a ditch ring the ring was a 12 meter circle that surrounded the site what's more interesting is that it wasn't the only one researchers found two more burials both of which were located in ditch rings this made them come to the conclusion that mike had stumbled upon a celtic settlement that has stayed hidden for quite a while waiting for mike's detector to come across it mike was able to dig up around third to four other items including a brooch tool handles and ron's bits i still can't believe it mike said obviously i've read other people's fines i've watched them on the telly and i've always thought i wouldn't mind finding that it's still surreal and life-changing he didn't even know half of it adam quilt the principal curator of prehistoric archaeology at the national museum of wales explained that the findings were probably witnessed to some great historical events of the time as iron age people defended their ways of life and identity from the expansion of the roman empire the project was going to take a lot of funding and adam and his team had been working with multiple partners to pursue a full investigation of the artifacts there was an entire history chapter hidden underground and it was going to need a lot of work to uncover fully keeping his eye on the prize mike expected at least a six or seven figure payout for his discovery of course he had to split his earnings with the landowners but even in that case he was going to get quite an amount mike explained that it's the biggest ever metal detecting find as in there's never been a chariot ever discovered by a metal detectorist there have been hordes found but never anything like this you