Cobalt*Blue
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New England has had a nice stretch of soaking rains over the last few weeks. I have read that this is a boom for detecting but never knew just how good it could be. I had today off so I could bring my car to get some much needed repairs. I dropped my car off early this morning and walked my detector to my Grandmothers home that is located just up the street from the repair shop.
Gram's home was built at the turn of the century and has been in the family for 80+ years. The grounds have not been graded or in any way messed around with for nearly a century. This is very good. What is not good is that generations have cast off an unbelievable amount of trash iron in the area. It is impossible to swing the coil more than a foot with out hitting an iron signal over most of the two acre site. This site was my first experience with signal overload and I was about to admit defeat here three years ago when I first started detecting. Thru some magical twist of metal detecting fate, I found a 1835 Large Cent that day and it was just what I needed to move my mind set to the next level of this odd, some what frustrating, but strangely satisfying hobby.
I have detected this spot a dozen times and the site has given and given. The finds trailed off last year so expectations were modest.
I started by finding wheat's (10 total), then I found Three wheat's stuck together, when I found the 1927 Canadian 5 cent piece (90vdi=Silver) I began to get excited. The Toy Car (tootsie?) left me wondering how I could miss something this BIG. The 1917 Merc., then the Gilded metal piece, a 1925 Buffalo, the Rockefeller Center good luck pendent (Key Tag?), the brass pointed thing is heavy and has a threaded end (Masons tool?), it was found at the base of a stone retaining wall, 1892 Indian in better shape than most I have taken from acidic N.E. soil, and the last thing I found was the Orphan Annie good luck token. Ovaltine 3 Times a Day!
As if this day off couldn't get much better, I got invited to lunch. I spent the whole morning digging up her yard and she makes me lunch. That's love. HH Chris
Gram's home was built at the turn of the century and has been in the family for 80+ years. The grounds have not been graded or in any way messed around with for nearly a century. This is very good. What is not good is that generations have cast off an unbelievable amount of trash iron in the area. It is impossible to swing the coil more than a foot with out hitting an iron signal over most of the two acre site. This site was my first experience with signal overload and I was about to admit defeat here three years ago when I first started detecting. Thru some magical twist of metal detecting fate, I found a 1835 Large Cent that day and it was just what I needed to move my mind set to the next level of this odd, some what frustrating, but strangely satisfying hobby.
I have detected this spot a dozen times and the site has given and given. The finds trailed off last year so expectations were modest.
I started by finding wheat's (10 total), then I found Three wheat's stuck together, when I found the 1927 Canadian 5 cent piece (90vdi=Silver) I began to get excited. The Toy Car (tootsie?) left me wondering how I could miss something this BIG. The 1917 Merc., then the Gilded metal piece, a 1925 Buffalo, the Rockefeller Center good luck pendent (Key Tag?), the brass pointed thing is heavy and has a threaded end (Masons tool?), it was found at the base of a stone retaining wall, 1892 Indian in better shape than most I have taken from acidic N.E. soil, and the last thing I found was the Orphan Annie good luck token. Ovaltine 3 Times a Day!
As if this day off couldn't get much better, I got invited to lunch. I spent the whole morning digging up her yard and she makes me lunch. That's love. HH Chris
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but I'll take the finds!
