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Message:: [QUOTE="Rono, post: 301944, member: 6492"]Howdy, I posed this question a month or so ago and go the response that cemetaries are more or less off limits to metal detecting. In this case, it's a 'private' abandoned one on your property, so you have some rights.  However, I'd guess that most states have laws about cemetaries, graves, and for that matter antiquities.  Even if there aren't applicable laws, you've got to deal with the ethical issue involved. Frankly, I would think it would be OK to detect around the cemetary but not in and around the graves themselves.  This is strictly from an ethical perpective, not legal. We all know that history has shown us 1000's of grave robbers and some fabulous fortunes uncovered.  This is one end of the spectrum. At the other end is a guy I work with who's an archeolobist who feels it's criminal to metal detect ANYWHERE.  I chatted with him one day about it and thought he was going to have a cardiac. Us coin collectors and particularly those that do metal detect lie somewhere in the middle between these two extremes.   good luck, rono[/QUOTE]