catyron
Jr. Member
- Apr 15, 2019
- 44
- 87
- Detector(s) used
- Old Maps, Dowsing, Borrowed detecting equipment from friends.
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Hello, all.
I am new to TreasureNet, but not new to treasure hunting, or to forums. (I run a very large forum on folklore, but that is off-topic here.)
My idea of treasure may be a little different than yours. I have panned for gold and found it (who in California has not?) But i actually decided to join the forum to express my great respect and honour to the late EagleDown. I know the places of which he speaks, and have panned there circa 1957 through 1961 with my late mother and stepfather -- and found plenty of flakes and a few small nuggets.
My stepfather had spent a summer in pursuit of the Lost Dutchman Mine when he was a young man. Needless to say, he did not find it, but he became adept at panning for gold and we went out regularly, and also sought rare stones and minerals, not for profit, but "for pretty." We were rockhounds in those days, and treasure was only part of what we sought.
We also sought relics. A branch of my mother's family had once been located in the town of Copperopolis, and we went hunting for evidence of their habitations in the form of pottery sherds, glass bottles, cast iron, wrought iron, and coins.
These expeditions spurred in me a lifelong interest in finding 19th century farmstead middens and dumps and Native American campsites -- not "treasure" to all, but items of great value to me. A hand-forged grape-hoe head of Italian pattern found in an abandoned vegetable garden spot is as thrilling to me as money in the bank is to others. A sterling silver pin from a Knights Templar gathering in San Diego in 1903 opens my mind with wonder and joy. The obsidian arrowheads and knives and the shaped stone adzes i have found hold a special place in my heart.
I do not own any metal detection equipment of my own, but we have had friends over to search our old farmstead, which was settled in 1875 by a blacksmith (yes, we have found hundreds of hand-forged horseshoes). Mostly i work by old maps and by dowsing.
I realize that dowsing is a controversial subject in this forum, and i fully intend to let the ill-tempered skeptics "talk to the wall," as i will not be replying to them.
I am a G-Scale Garden Railroader, married to a wonderful husband, a proud mother and grandmother, and still working for a living, a few weeks shy of my 72nd birthday.
Nice to meet you!
I am new to TreasureNet, but not new to treasure hunting, or to forums. (I run a very large forum on folklore, but that is off-topic here.)
My idea of treasure may be a little different than yours. I have panned for gold and found it (who in California has not?) But i actually decided to join the forum to express my great respect and honour to the late EagleDown. I know the places of which he speaks, and have panned there circa 1957 through 1961 with my late mother and stepfather -- and found plenty of flakes and a few small nuggets.
My stepfather had spent a summer in pursuit of the Lost Dutchman Mine when he was a young man. Needless to say, he did not find it, but he became adept at panning for gold and we went out regularly, and also sought rare stones and minerals, not for profit, but "for pretty." We were rockhounds in those days, and treasure was only part of what we sought.
We also sought relics. A branch of my mother's family had once been located in the town of Copperopolis, and we went hunting for evidence of their habitations in the form of pottery sherds, glass bottles, cast iron, wrought iron, and coins.
These expeditions spurred in me a lifelong interest in finding 19th century farmstead middens and dumps and Native American campsites -- not "treasure" to all, but items of great value to me. A hand-forged grape-hoe head of Italian pattern found in an abandoned vegetable garden spot is as thrilling to me as money in the bank is to others. A sterling silver pin from a Knights Templar gathering in San Diego in 1903 opens my mind with wonder and joy. The obsidian arrowheads and knives and the shaped stone adzes i have found hold a special place in my heart.
I do not own any metal detection equipment of my own, but we have had friends over to search our old farmstead, which was settled in 1875 by a blacksmith (yes, we have found hundreds of hand-forged horseshoes). Mostly i work by old maps and by dowsing.
I realize that dowsing is a controversial subject in this forum, and i fully intend to let the ill-tempered skeptics "talk to the wall," as i will not be replying to them.
I am a G-Scale Garden Railroader, married to a wonderful husband, a proud mother and grandmother, and still working for a living, a few weeks shy of my 72nd birthday.
Nice to meet you!
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