TrpnBils
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I have been working this one old home site that is now a field for about 3 years. It has produced a handful of large cents up to about 1830, a handful of early Indians, a couple of half cents, a bayonet, and a ton of buttons.....the problem is I have never worked at a site that had this much iron in it (one picture below is a magnet I raked through a 1x3' area I took the sod off a couple of weeks ago. I take a little at a time, and recently started digging pits that are 3x3x1.5' and am still finding a bed of nails at that 18" mark most of the time. The pits have thrown out lots of ceramic and a handful of buttons, but I know there are still coins there. One day when I was digging a pit out I put a clad dime in the soil before I swept it with the magnet, covered it over with an inch of dirt from the hole and got absolutely no conductive tone or even target trace on the CTX. It was TOTALLY masked with an inch of dirt and crumbled rust.
Anyway, last night I spent about an hour there just detecting instead of pit digging, and I got one low grunt I was able to isolate and managed to pull out a nice, early IHP. It's a pointed bust variety 1860 cent (I also dug the shieldless 1859 there a couple of years ago and an 1864 L variety, so the IHPs that have come out of here have been fantastic). Like I said above, it's not a major find at all, but for that particular site it's certainly significant because it proves there is still decent stuff masked and my efforts are not wasted! I guarantee my hunting partner and I have had our coils over that coin in the past because it's a small-ish area and we have absolutely hammered it, but finds still come about every so often.
Anyway, last night I spent about an hour there just detecting instead of pit digging, and I got one low grunt I was able to isolate and managed to pull out a nice, early IHP. It's a pointed bust variety 1860 cent (I also dug the shieldless 1859 there a couple of years ago and an 1864 L variety, so the IHPs that have come out of here have been fantastic). Like I said above, it's not a major find at all, but for that particular site it's certainly significant because it proves there is still decent stuff masked and my efforts are not wasted! I guarantee my hunting partner and I have had our coils over that coin in the past because it's a small-ish area and we have absolutely hammered it, but finds still come about every so often.
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