When to dig?

[mbcuce]

I'm relatively new to detecting and have been fortunate to get some great permissions right from the start. One we are on now has a lot of colonial era relics. There is a high concentration of iron, signal jumps all over. We assume these areas are the house sites where the best relics would be but there is so much iron. My question is, is there something you guys do to better discriminate? Do I need a more expensive detector (Garrett ACE 400)? or do we just dig literally everything? Thanks for any advice.

 

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[xr7ator]

Being in Denver I don't get a lot of opportunity to dig colonial so, yes, I would dig everything. Removing some iron might allow you to find something great.

 

[DiamondDan]

The best way to learn a machine is to dig everything. Pretty soon you'll have a much better idea is under the coil and pick and choose accordingly. Be careful, though, because crappy signals are sometimes good stuff.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

When relic hunting you have to dig it all...you never know!

 

[digging440yrs]

Tip--Some of your iron signals at colonial sites are great relics

 

[Opie]

mbcuce, Its a sad truth but their all correct, dig it all. You may get away with popping the cap as they say, and pop a shallow plug above the target to see if it suddenly reads different. I've never really liked to do this, figuring if I'm digging any hole it might as well be for seeing whats there!,,,lol
Good Luck!
Stay Gold!
Opie