Depth of Buckles and Plates in Cultivated Areas?

[BamaBill]

Been hunting some farmer's fields in N. Alabama and finding bullets and some other items that indicate a camp. Most of these items have been from 1"-6" deep. Would heavier items, such as buckles tend to sink deeper. This is looking like a Union camp and this area has not been hunted before (to my knowledge).

[wildrider]

Cane,

It just depends on what has been done with the land. If it's been plowed, they can be as deep as the deepest ground that's been turned over. If it's always been pasture land, it will be shallower, much like what you've been finding.

It could be they just didn't loose any, or it was already picked up by early farmers or tenants.

Keep lookin.

Burt

[BamaBill]

As an adjunct to this question. Have you found that heavily fertilized areas affect depth on a fixed ground balanced machine?

[wildrider]

No, I don't think so. I've never noticed that as a problem. However, fertilizer does destroy buttons. The more fertilizer they have been introduced to, the worse they look and the more brittle they become.

Note: unless the fertilizer is fresh manure that keeps your coil from getting closer to the ground.

Burt