DickH
Greenie
- Dec 6, 2008
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- Detector(s) used
- White's DFX
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Back at a ten acre home site I hit last week trying to work my way through the trash to get to the good stuff. The 20's-30's house recently torn down is said to be the replacement for a turn of the century homestead.
I had a solid signal indicating a dime or quarter at 2". When I'd dug down three inches I figured it was just another beer can; but I continued to dig -to remove the trash. Imagine my surprise when I started to pluck walnuts from the hole. Between 3" & 6" I pulled out over 35 intact walnuts. The pinpointer wasn't registering anything but the DFX kept saying 2". I put down the knife and got out my folding shovel and dug another twenty inches or so and finally pulled out the rusted remains of a bucket with wire bale - like a paint can maybe - only the bale and part of the rim identified it. I'm guessing that somehow a bucket of walnuts got buried and over the years the lighter {than dirt} walnuts percolated toward the surface. By the way, walnut trees are few and far between in my area so this was obviously someone's stash of walnuts.
I keep finding splitting wedges - third this year; and lots of zinc canning jar lids - at least this one is totally intact - both lid and glass liner. The Wilson tennis racket is probably the funniest thing I've dug out - it'd been down there long enough that a root had grown totally around a pair of strings. If I can just get the junk cleared away I'm sure I'll find an old coin or two. Of course I'm that kid that will dive into the manure pile looking for the pony. -Dick
I had a solid signal indicating a dime or quarter at 2". When I'd dug down three inches I figured it was just another beer can; but I continued to dig -to remove the trash. Imagine my surprise when I started to pluck walnuts from the hole. Between 3" & 6" I pulled out over 35 intact walnuts. The pinpointer wasn't registering anything but the DFX kept saying 2". I put down the knife and got out my folding shovel and dug another twenty inches or so and finally pulled out the rusted remains of a bucket with wire bale - like a paint can maybe - only the bale and part of the rim identified it. I'm guessing that somehow a bucket of walnuts got buried and over the years the lighter {than dirt} walnuts percolated toward the surface. By the way, walnut trees are few and far between in my area so this was obviously someone's stash of walnuts.
I keep finding splitting wedges - third this year; and lots of zinc canning jar lids - at least this one is totally intact - both lid and glass liner. The Wilson tennis racket is probably the funniest thing I've dug out - it'd been down there long enough that a root had grown totally around a pair of strings. If I can just get the junk cleared away I'm sure I'll find an old coin or two. Of course I'm that kid that will dive into the manure pile looking for the pony. -Dick
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That's funny! I dug up 2 wedges and two axe heads last year, the Hubby uses those. ![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
