Merry Christmas to all my friends here on Tnet! 
I had a couple of hours to kill this afternoon, so I decided to head back to the old Myrtle School site. The last time I was here was on August 18th and the pickings were slim at best.
I've spent a lot of time here this year picking out the trash, so now with the ground wet, it was time to turn up the discrimination and go deep! 
I've always felt this site had more good finds to give up, I just had to grid it out and go slow. As Breezie once told me, "if you really want to go slow then detect while walking backwards"! 
You know what this theory really works! 
Here's a bit of background history of the site, as well some of my observations from my first hunt here back in June . . .
"I've been driving past a small park in the country for about 5 years now, but I've never seen anyone using it. I noticed a flat piece of vacant property next to it; the two properties are divided by a row of old pine trees. So I got to wondering . . . "the park is surrounded by 100 year old trees, so is the "flat" piece of property . . . did the two used to be one at some point?" So, I started to do some research and found the land used to be occupied by the Myrtle (one room) School House. The Myrtle School was built in 1880 on the south side of the 9th Concession of Whitby Township, a short distance west of Highway 12. It was a board and batten building covered with insubrick in the late 1940s. In July 1940 the building was raised and a basement was built underneath it. The old school was demolished in 1978."
Let me apologize ahead of time as I have no insitue photo's to post as I'm still waiting to get my email address attached to my new Blackberry. I accidentally washed my old blackberry in my pants 2 weeks back!
I made some interesting finds today, though I really only concentrated on an area that measured 30' wide x 200' long. See the area indicated in red in one of the photo's. I started by digging the compact, at least that's what I think it is? 
I then found the chrome-plated over brass bell. This piece is interesting because at first I thought it was a bicycle bell, but it was far too heavy, then I figured that it might have been from an old telephone box. 
I took a picture of it placed in an old telephone box that I have on the wall in my basement.
My next find came from about 6" down, all I could think was, "finally another silver"!
This silver coin turned out to be a heavily worn Mercury Dime and it looks to date from 1916, though it's kinda hard to tell as you can see. ![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
I then found the 1895 'Victoria' LC, then the 1920 'George', followed by a 1902 'Edward' LC! These were all found within a 5' radius of each other! 
Sorry to be so long winded!
Happy holidays everyone!
Dave
I had a couple of hours to kill this afternoon, so I decided to head back to the old Myrtle School site. The last time I was here was on August 18th and the pickings were slim at best.
I've spent a lot of time here this year picking out the trash, so now with the ground wet, it was time to turn up the discrimination and go deep! I've always felt this site had more good finds to give up, I just had to grid it out and go slow. As Breezie once told me, "if you really want to go slow then detect while walking backwards"! You know what this theory really works! Here's a bit of background history of the site, as well some of my observations from my first hunt here back in June . . .
"I've been driving past a small park in the country for about 5 years now, but I've never seen anyone using it. I noticed a flat piece of vacant property next to it; the two properties are divided by a row of old pine trees. So I got to wondering . . . "the park is surrounded by 100 year old trees, so is the "flat" piece of property . . . did the two used to be one at some point?" So, I started to do some research and found the land used to be occupied by the Myrtle (one room) School House. The Myrtle School was built in 1880 on the south side of the 9th Concession of Whitby Township, a short distance west of Highway 12. It was a board and batten building covered with insubrick in the late 1940s. In July 1940 the building was raised and a basement was built underneath it. The old school was demolished in 1978."
Let me apologize ahead of time as I have no insitue photo's to post as I'm still waiting to get my email address attached to my new Blackberry. I accidentally washed my old blackberry in my pants 2 weeks back!
I made some interesting finds today, though I really only concentrated on an area that measured 30' wide x 200' long. See the area indicated in red in one of the photo's. I started by digging the compact, at least that's what I think it is? I then found the chrome-plated over brass bell. This piece is interesting because at first I thought it was a bicycle bell, but it was far too heavy, then I figured that it might have been from an old telephone box. I took a picture of it placed in an old telephone box that I have on the wall in my basement.My next find came from about 6" down, all I could think was, "finally another silver"!
This silver coin turned out to be a heavily worn Mercury Dime and it looks to date from 1916, though it's kinda hard to tell as you can see. I then found the 1895 'Victoria' LC, then the 1920 'George', followed by a 1902 'Edward' LC! These were all found within a 5' radius of each other! Sorry to be so long winded! Happy holidays everyone!
Dave
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Good post, Merry Christmas to you as well! 
