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Jesse James

Sr. Member
Mar 14, 2012
260
641
Lancaster County, PA
Detector(s) used
Garrett AT Pro
Garrett Carrot
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Found an old demolished homestead last night on Google maps. Pulled up the 1940 map to get an idea of the property as it stood. Couldn't date the property, but just like most in the area, probably mid/late 1800's. It was some rough hunting. Some areas had weeds as high as my knees. Pretty hard to swing in that stuff. I found myself hacking them away with my Digger when I could lock in on a good tone. Unfortunately where the front yard used to be, was 3 foot piles of dirt and mulch. Probably covering up the goodies. I even found myself hunting the packed stone driveway. Tough to even dig down 2 inches.
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Unfortunately, no silver today. Managed to pull out 2 buttons, an old buckle, and a 1928 Wheat. 20180716_210731.jpg 20180716_210805.jpg 20180716_210659.jpg
As for my next permission, I'm going to try for the property at the top left of the map. I noticed an 1870 home that is no longer standing. Screenshot_2018-07-16-21-14-48-1.jpg
 

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Johncoho

Silver Member
Feb 14, 2014
2,854
7,264
Martinsburg, Pa. in the summer and Apache Junction
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
2
Detector(s) used
Whites Spectrum XLT, Garrett AT Pro, Macro pinpointer, Garrett carrot pinpointer,
Lesch digger, Nel Tornado coil for ATPro, Garret ATMax with Nel Tornado coil
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Nice finds. If the brush and weeds were cut there may be some good keepers there. Also where do you get your old map images to locate the old properties?
 

Hawks88

Gold Member
Aug 26, 2012
7,878
11,840
Niagara falls
Detector(s) used
Equinox 800
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Nice job on the permissions and you got some nice finds. I like the button. Congrats
 

Oct 5, 2014
31,886
35,425
Massachusetts
🥇 Banner finds
1
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
1
Detector(s) used
Garrett: AT Pro, AT Gold & Infinium; Minelab: Explorer SE, II; Simplex; Tesoro: Tejon & Outlaw; White's: V3i
Primary Interest:
Relic Hunting
Nice finds, keep up the good work! :occasion14:
 

A2coins

Gold Member
Dec 20, 2015
33,807
42,606
Ann Arbor
🏆 Honorable Mentions:
3
Detector(s) used
Equinox 800
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
gotta take a mower out there wear some city green like a city worker and clean up looks like an old site by your findd
 

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