alex12
Greenie
- Mar 1, 2019
- 14
- 96
- Detector(s) used
- Equinox 600, Land Ranger Pro
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I had a really great site that had 3 buildings on an 1860s map. I hit the site 5 total times, each time coming back with a fairly significant haul for me atleast, with the exception of the last where I came up empty handed.
Total items saved one small complete crotal bell, 2 weddings bands, 3 suspender clips, 14 buttons one is a Civil War Officer's Infantry button, 1 broach, 2 belt buckles, 3 Canadian bank tokens, 6 large cents, 1 cut large cent, 3 indian head pennies, 2 flying eagles and a flying eagle civil war token. Also two unidentified toasted coppers one is 36mm the other 34mm. One trip my wife came with me. She had never found anything before and neither of us were finding anything at all. So I went deep into the property hoping for a signal, I come up with a great signal a couple hundred yards away from where the buildings used to be, I ask her to walk over to me she finds a "modern penny" sitting on the surface, I said can I see it, it ends up being a civil war token. So she says "ugh I wanted to dig a coin!". We both started laughing and I said think about it this way, that coin has sat there for 157 years until you picked it up how cool and mind blowing is that?
I wanted to point out a few interesting (boring) things in terms of results, you are obviously welcome to skip to the photos. The first 2 times out I swept horizontal. The next 2 times out hit it caddy corner and it was as if I was on a new site that had never been hit before. 5th time out, no finds (just trash) even spent a few hours on the remaining 11 acres and nothing. The other interesting thing is as annoying as it is to hit near the road because of trash specifically beer and pop cans, I found 2 flying eagles in the same hole essentially stuck to each other one to two feet from the road, right next to the gravel of the berm. I would've never thought this soil could go undisturbed this close to the road.
The reason we're laughing in the photo is there were insane storm clouds rolling in fast behind us and a thunderstorm was with it. We packed up right after the photo, storm hit as we were driving away!
Thanks for looking and reading HH, Alex
Total items saved one small complete crotal bell, 2 weddings bands, 3 suspender clips, 14 buttons one is a Civil War Officer's Infantry button, 1 broach, 2 belt buckles, 3 Canadian bank tokens, 6 large cents, 1 cut large cent, 3 indian head pennies, 2 flying eagles and a flying eagle civil war token. Also two unidentified toasted coppers one is 36mm the other 34mm. One trip my wife came with me. She had never found anything before and neither of us were finding anything at all. So I went deep into the property hoping for a signal, I come up with a great signal a couple hundred yards away from where the buildings used to be, I ask her to walk over to me she finds a "modern penny" sitting on the surface, I said can I see it, it ends up being a civil war token. So she says "ugh I wanted to dig a coin!". We both started laughing and I said think about it this way, that coin has sat there for 157 years until you picked it up how cool and mind blowing is that?
I wanted to point out a few interesting (boring) things in terms of results, you are obviously welcome to skip to the photos. The first 2 times out I swept horizontal. The next 2 times out hit it caddy corner and it was as if I was on a new site that had never been hit before. 5th time out, no finds (just trash) even spent a few hours on the remaining 11 acres and nothing. The other interesting thing is as annoying as it is to hit near the road because of trash specifically beer and pop cans, I found 2 flying eagles in the same hole essentially stuck to each other one to two feet from the road, right next to the gravel of the berm. I would've never thought this soil could go undisturbed this close to the road.
The reason we're laughing in the photo is there were insane storm clouds rolling in fast behind us and a thunderstorm was with it. We packed up right after the photo, storm hit as we were driving away!
Thanks for looking and reading HH, Alex
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