My spot in the woods??

[Coinstriking Michigan]

I've been posting some pics lately from the same section of woods I've been hunting for a week or two. The newest coin I have found in the was a 1935 Wheat Penny. The oldest was an 1888 Indian Head. My question is how come all the coins I have found there have only been 3 inches at the deepest? With all the leaf litter there I would expect them to be even deeper than usual. Any ideas? The 1920 Buffalo nickel and the 1891 V nickel were only about an inch deep.

 

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[Subterranean]

Hey CM, I know from experience as a volunteer firefighter in a rural area that a controlled (or other) burn will take that dead vegetation right down to the soil every time. Throw in some rain erosion and you have some shallow dirt for digging, which isn't necessarily a bad thing! Happy Hunting, Sub

 

[Coinstriking Michigan]

That's possible, only this is in a remote area and I know it hasn't been burned as far back as I can remember. They do controlled burns here for woodticks but only on the edges of the town. It's odd though because when I get a signal I have to kick the leaves from last year away and the coins are just under the surface...well take the foot of leaves I kick away and times them by 100 years you would think those would all break down into layers atop those coins. It must be something with the water table.

 

[N.J.THer]

I've been in areas that have lots of roots that keep the coins from going too deep.

NJ

 

[Coinstriking Michigan]

That could be it because there are a ton of trees...huge ones too which I would imagine have huge root systems underground.

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

The Lincoln cent at eight inches, the v nickle a one inch,
who knows exactly why things move up and down on
the forest floor; so many reasons why some go up
and others get deeper.

Don't think you can map it all out.

And that is what I think.


have a good un.......
SHERMANVILLE

 

[smcdmc]

I think the frost will push them back up a little as well. Might find coins deeper in the fall and then a little shallower in early spring.

 

[goen 4 gold]

im with shermanville, so much comes into play.

 

[K Zack]

I think you might be missing a lot of coins in the place that you are hunting.
If the leaves are that deep you might not be getting the coil close enough to the ground to get the deep coins.
With the depth of the leaves plus the depth of the Snow that you get up there, I don't think frost would be a big issue.
I sounds like a very good area to hunt.
Good luck
Kevin

 

[Diggit]

In wooded areas, the soil makeup is different. Especially in MI wooded areas. The decaying leaves and plant matter form a more firm soil than a grassy area, and the lack of growing grass as opposed to dead plant matter makes rain and gravity the primary driving forces in the sinking of coins.
The coin finds will sit on the dead leaves for longer than they would constantly renewing "lawn grass"

Keep hitting her, Broseph!

 

[Coinstriking Michigan]

I think you might be missing a lot of coins in the place that you are hunting.
If the leaves are that deep you might not be getting the coil close enough to the ground to get the deep coins.
With the depth of the leaves plus the depth of the Snow that you get up there, I don't think frost would be a big issue.
I sounds like a very good area to hunt.
Good luck
Kevin

I'm sure I am missing coins but I can't do anything about the amount of leaves and tree branches everywhere. I wish I could.

 

[Coinstriking Michigan]

In wooded areas, the soil makeup is different. Especially in MI wooded areas. The decaying leaves and plant matter form a more firm soil than a grassy area, and the lack of growing grass as opposed to dead plant matter makes rain and gravity the primary driving forces in the sinking of coins.
The coin finds will sit on the dead leaves for longer than they would constantly renewing "lawn grass"

Keep hitting her, Broseph!

Sounds reasonable...I'll keep hitting it hard though.

 

[smartmoney]

I recently found a one piece button right on top of the surface in the woods. I believe that in the woods, things sink normally as opposed to grass. It can take 500-1000 years for soil to form so if there is no "sinking" mechanism, then items found in the woods may be on the surface. No in the grass, the thatch around the roots forms every year creating layer afer layer pushing items deeper each year

 

[Swartzie]

Weird ain't it? My deepest coin find in the woods was like maybe 5 inches. Found an 1808 1/2 reale and 1797 1/2 cent at less than two inches in the woods. Ya gotta love it!

-Swartzie

 

[highnam]

Good question...I only hunt one spot and it is in the woods. I have found the deepest soil to be in low spots or depressions in the hillside...I have often wondered why, but I think leaves and debris get wind blown and trapped in the areas. Another place where leaves get trapped are around trees or stumps. New trees can push artifacts up out of the ground or trap them under roots. So I suggest a low spot in the woods could be a natural trap with deeper soil than the (crown) of the hill that gets windswept. I use a privy probe to determine soil dept if I'm not sure.