oravikmatt
Jr. Member
One time while out looking for places to metal detect I found an abandoned house on some wooded property. I walked around the property checking it out and when I got close to the house I noticed all the doors were open or busted in. I looked into the basement and there was still stuff laying around. I went in and looked around and found a WWI canteen hanging next to a set of WWII canvas leggings. I thought the leggings were destroyed but I cleaned them a little and turns out all the white stuff was just mildew and came right off. The canteen was very dirty. But when I cleaned it I could see the date of 1918 and also the name of the person it was issued to was etched on. I had to keep these items, the house was about to collapse and there was no way I was just going to let something special like that get destroyed. I never did get to go back and use my metal detector there.