Several years ago a friend of mine had heard of Spanish artifacts having been found up in one of the many canyons of the Wasatch Front. He and a friend decided to go up in the canyon and do some siphon dredging. “We had a hell of a hole going on” he said, “about 6 feet in diameter and near 8 feet deep”... All of the dirt and small rocks cast off to the side, he decided to run his detector over it and got several hits, he gathered up a bunch of these thought to be flat sinkers, he put them in his pocket and after a not so successful day packed up and went home...
The next morning he remembered the lead sinkers in his pocket and dug them out a spread them on the table. After little cleaning he realized these were not sinkers, they were widow mites, old Roman coins. He called his buddy and told him we need to go back up there... Armed with their metal detectors they made their way back up the mountain and just above where they were dredging. He told me there was a nice flat spot there where he imagined and told his buddy would have been perfect for an old Spanish camp site. Having both agreed they begin to detect the flat spot area.
Not long after starting to detect, his buddy got a good hit. Both gathered around the spot and begin digging away in what was said to be pretty hard ground. About 6 inches down they exposed what appeared to be the hilt of an old sword, if the whole sword was there, the blade went straight down. A little more digging and it was confirmed not only an old sword, but quite ornate and it was definitely still attached to a blade which refused to move. Just past the hilt the digging got more difficult, he described it as caliche. Trying to dig down deep enough to free the blade was difficult but as they dug down deeper they began to free up many old Roman coins, it was estimated to be about 400.
Nearing where the end of the blade should be, the ground finally let go of the sword. Curiosity caused them to dig just a bit further when they began to pull up some old pieces of burlap, possibly what was left of the old bag which originally carried the coins. In the last effort to pull up what was a far size piece of the burlap and seeming;y wrapped around... were 3 beautiful large presumed quartz crystals. What the hell? They thought, what are these doing here and what are they for? These questions are my motivation in writing this article in an effort to find an answer. The small one seems to have a darker tinted look to it and the two cylindrical 6 sided shape ones have been intentionally beveled on the bottom side as if to fit into a designated stand of sort. My friend told me, “I swear you can believe it or not, but one night I had them sitting on my mantel, we turned out the lights and went to bed,“ he said he woke not long after having fallen asleep for the night and noticed through their open bedroom door, a light source coming from the living room. Curious of course as no light should have been left on, he went to find the two nicer crystals just as he had left them and touching each other, and they were glowing! He said it lasted for hours before dimming... He said he has tried many things several times since to make it happen again but to no avail.
Why were these strange crystals at the bottom of the 4 foot hole under a few hundred Roman coins and a sword shoved down thought the middle of it all as if an attempt to kill it, LOL, Did the Crystals glow for the man who buried them as well and it scared the bejesus out of him? Where did the suspect Spaniard with an ornate likely officers sword, get these crystals and why did he have them? Did he find them somewhere and was just as confused as I am?
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