south carolina

Is this a zipper pull? Found outside Charleston South Carolina.

What an epic hunt Saturday. We spent a good six hours hunting and this was the most epic unsuspected find. I knew I had a token in the field, but had no idea how rare it would be until I got home and started doing some research. 99 or less known to exist!! Amazing!! This link provides a little...

I was lucky over the weekend and dug my second 1830's South Carolina Nullification Cuff Button. Not too many of these are known to exist so, I'm super excited to have dug 2 in 10yrs of metal detecting. Thanks for looking!

Hey yall, ive been wanting to get into metal detecting for awhile now. Finally decided its time to buy a detector. Im in SC and would be searching for civil war coins, musket balls, etc. I dont really know much about metal detectors but Im trying to decide between 3 options: Garrett ACE 400...

Hello, I will be driving up to Charleston next weekend (January 26th thru 28th).I am hoping someone can take me detecting Sunday and/or Monday. I would really like the opportunity to find some really old coins or war artifacts. I would be happy to pay you for your time and efforts. If you have...

Hello, I collect all types of buttons, and I purchased a box lot of sewing buttons online. In a small box were 11 South Carolina buttons in pretty nice condition. They seemed a different and better quality and condition than most of the military and pseudo-military type buttons I find and they...

This article from the St. John's Herald newspaper of June 25, 1891 tells of the recovery of a large bank cache that had been buried in advance of Sherman's March to the Sea. This week, I've read numerous old newspaper articles which tell of thousands of families and businesses that buried their...

We had a short hunt the other day but found our 1st 1927 wheat penny using a Teknetics Gamma 6000 in Orangeburg County, SC https://youtu.be/IJJdIjIkEYI

About ten years ago, i started picking up and digging quartz out of my creek banks, i had found a good many(crystals or the pointy ones), but nothing to compare to what i found after having the timber cut! With the ground turned over, i found buckets full. But never what i considered really good...

Does the effectiveness of the AT Pro in wet sand/saltwater really depend on the mineralization of the beach? I did a beach hunt in New Jersey earlier this year and had crazy falsing in the salt (even with the coil cover removed), but AMAZING results on dry land. Now perhaps it was the beach...

Most of the posts on this forum are a few years old so I thought I'd start a new thread. Are there any active clubs in Columbia, SC or anywhere else in the state? If not, anyone interested in starting one? Let me know! PD

I need some help/advice in metal detecting the low country soil around Charleston, South Carolina. I spent the last couple of days searching my parents’ property with poor results. The soil characteristics are: • Sandy with some organic matter, • The moisture content is low (not dry) (0 =...

I'm in the Spartanburg/Greenville area of South Carolina. Anyone know any good ideas on where to prospect? I'm a newbie and have found about 10 flakes and 4 pieces that are alot bigger than flakes but smaller than pickers. I just started about a month ago. I've ran a total of about 4 five gallon...

I'm trying to find prospectors in the upstate of South Carolina to join forces and share stories, information , find photos and anything to do with prospecting our beautiful area. Prospectors helping prospectors .

Hey fellow prospectors and treasure hunters. I started this thread to see what people had to say about gold still in South Carolina. I aq'uired a small tract of land in Smyrna, York County. Land has been untouched since the California rush (except the little old lady that lived there since...

Hey fellow prospectors and treasure hunters. I started this thread to see what people had to say about gold still in South Carolina. I aq'uired a small tract of land in Smyrna, York County. Land has been untouched since the California rush (except the little old lady that lived there since...

Hello Everybody! It is offically 'Turkey Day' as some people like to call it. I wish the best to you and your family this holiday! On another note though, I'm an ammature digger; very interested in South Carolina history. Actually, I've never dug anywhere and I would really like to get started...

I have always wondered how do people find such old coins when detecting...well they dig like I did! My husband an I had just arrived at a site to detect when the very first beep was a 36 on my Minelab xterra 505. I dug about 6 inches and this tiny coin popped out of the clump of dirt. I yelled...

My friend (my next door neighbor) and I have been searching a city park for about a month now. So far the oldest coin I have found was a wheat penny dated 1942. I did find three other wheats but all dated 1953, plus one silver rosie dime dated 1953. I know the dirt has been moved around at some...

Hey all, I'm an active dutie Army Ranger stationed in Savannah GA, new to the prospecting game as of this summer. I've poked around a few creeks in the McCormick area and am looking for some folks who might want to meet up and work some material in that area. Due to the nature of my...