Parks backfilled or raised

[gerryk]

Have been hitting a lot of the local parks where I grew up. Lots of targets showing up but so much junk. I even went to a school that i went to that both of my parents attended. I went out back where the football field was, and is now a parking lot. The baseball field which was the only one around was still there but looked different. I finally realized the field was at
East two feet higher than it used to be. No wonder targets were showing up so damned deep, that i passed up most of them. Ok, off to the oldest park in town and i start hitting the grassy areas around the baseball fields and the shallowest i get anything is 6 inches and again so darn much trash in and above the ground. After an hour and a bag full of trash and a few coins, i sit down for a drink and realize this field has also been raised up some. It looks like many park fields in town have been raised up the same way.
I find more garbage in the suburban parks than in the Chicago parks.

 

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[Normsel]

That's not all that uncommon. I was at a park the other day and they were hauling in load after load of dirt to raise the low spots.

 

[Qball]

Lots of parks have been filled or tilled and re turfed. the huge problem we have in Cali. is foil from candy wrappers. this is masking out all the goodies below and is not as easy to dig up as a pop top. Our kids need a civics lesson on litter something terrible. look around for somewhere they did not bother to fill.

 

[team sidewinder]

I live in a EPA superfund site where all the parks had the top 6 inches of soil removed and then refilled. No wonder I have a tough time finding anything old or anything in general. I feel your pain.

 

[gerryk]

Most areas in town here are less than 20 years old and were old farms. When the land was subdivided the topsoil was stripped and then brought back in after homes were build.
The amount of foil wrappers and aluminum cans that were shredded by lawn mowers in all the parks is terrible. The parks all have garbage cans but people do to seem to use them. I hunted a spot the other day that was an old farm house, the basement and septic were filled in with gravel and sit that way today. The whole area around it is covered with aluminum cans that were shredded by the parks guys on mowers. Is it that hard to stop and pick something like that up? After all it is a safety issue having a shredded can laying on the ground.

Ok, done with my rant.

 

[Pointman]

That is a shame.

I recently went to a old area where I thought they were leveling the lot down. Went and asked the neighbor who told me that they were actually raising it 3 feet.

Has anyone actually detected moved dirt and found coins/relics in the NEW topsoil that was being moved in?

 

[gerryk]

No, but when i go detecting someplace and see Ana reA that was freshly excavated i dig that first.

 

[mrwilburino]

Most of the parks that I hunt were renovated back in the 1980s. A lot of back-filling took place. Look for exposed tree roots to find areas that haven't been tampered with.

 

[cudamark]

That is a shame.

I recently went to a old area where I thought they were leveling the lot down. Went and asked the neighbor who told me that they were actually raising it 3 feet.

Has anyone actually detected moved dirt and found coins/relics in the NEW topsoil that was being moved in?

Yes, I have, many times. The "new" dirt has to come from somewhere! In some parks, the dirt is moved from one area to another with very little filtering. I've been to some towns where they have renovated their parking strips by removing the dirt and then refilling that area with dirt they brought in from a previous project. Depending on where the dirt came from, you can score some nice older coins.