Remembering a site....

[Pete in MI]

How many times I have driven by some place and drooled, thinking "Man, I want to detect there". As I continue to travel I find place after place with potential and...then I can't remember where any of them are.

I now have a handheld GPS...a cheapy one. I can now mark exactly where a site is and can go directly back to that spot from anywhere. Only takes a punch of a button or two and the location is marked. Then the next site gets marked the same way. With the coordinates conveniently in the GPS I can sit in my arm chair with my Michigan Counties map book and cross reference those numbers and see on a map right where those spots are at.

One might say I could just use a notebook...which means pulling off the side of the road, getting the book out and finding the ink pen or pencil and then jotting down the road and an approximate location....but...the GPS is faster and more accurate. Great finds deserve to me kept a record of and the exact coordinates helps. Historical finds definitely should be marked by a GPS so archeaologists can know where to do a 'dig'.