Garrett424
Silver Member
- Jun 20, 2014
- 3,164
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- Detector(s) used
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Teknetics Omega 8000
Teknetics Delta 4000,
Deteknix XPointer,
Fiskar's Big Grip Digger & my old Army Trench shovel for the tough jobs
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
So the weather was unseasonably warm and beautiful today so I decided to try and get in a little treasure hunting for the first time this year. I'm getting a much earlier start than last year; that's for sure. My first hunt last year was on Easter Sunday.
We've had a ton of snow and rain so I expected it to be muddy. It definitely was. Since I've had pretty good luck on muddy hunts in the past I figured I was more than willing to get good and dirty to find some treasure.
So I didn't really have much time and I have some car problems at the moment and didn't wanna' drive too far, so I went to my nearby trusty "pounded" field that always seems to give up something no matter how many times I hunt it. The targets are really few and far between these days though. I've hit this site SO many times at this point.
So I started swinging and began digging pull tabs, can slaw and one clad dime. Then I got a nice hit in the high zinc range; a solid 79, and out popped this little beauty........
....a cool little Sterling arrowhead pendant. I was happy because silver makes any hunt a good one in my book.
After a little while I dug up a 1914 Wheatie and then a small, cool old octagonal flat button that still has some gilding on one side and the loop still intact.....
It was getting late so I decided to just dig up some more pull tabs from a really trashy area in the hopes of scoring some gold. So after digging a bunch of pull tabs and trash for almost an hour, I got a nice solid 58 hit and no more than two or three inches down, out popped ring number 59; a nice old 10K, Jenkins White Gold class ring from 1974. This is my first white gold find so I was pretty happy. It's from Walbrook High (wherever that is).
Here it is as I found it....
And after a very quick warm water rinse.....
It looks yellow in the pics but it's definitely white. My camera is over 10 years old so that may be part of the problem. The stone is in surprisingly good shape given the fact that the bottom half is so bent. I guess it's a garnet. It would be really cool if it turned out to be a ruby but I doubt it. I've been told that you don't see rubies set in 10K very often.
There is a name engraved inside. It says "William" but I can't make out the last name yet. I have it soaking in some Dawn and warm water. I'll see if I can track down the owner once I figure out where it originated and decipher the last name.
I'm so happy I decided to just dig a bunch of pull tabs. I know it's a pain but that's where the gold always seems to be hiding. Plus, I'm cleaning up the site a little more each time I do it. I still have a long way to go but I'm hoping there's more gold hiding in there. This has definitely been the most productive jewelry site I've hunted so far. I just can't believe the number of rings this spot has produced.
Overall, I'm really happy with the first hunt of the year. I didn't dig a huge number of treasures but I got some good stuff. This is also the fourth class ring I've dug from this field; three 10K and one Valadium. I guess it really is true that no site is every completely hunted out.
Maybe after a few months of weather, the blizzard and the steady rain, things got stirred up a bit. I've definitely swung over the very spot where the ring appeared many times before but I guess today the conditions were just right; not to mention the luck factor of course. Gotta' love that lady luck.
One thing I've learned on this journey is that if you want to find rings, hit well used sports fields and dig everything above iron. The older the site, the better. The amount of jewelry people lose playing sports is just astounding. Plus, when it's good and muddy the targets really seem to just jump under the coil. It's real messy but it can be very rewarding at times (or not).
I guess that's about it.
Thanks for looking and HH......
We've had a ton of snow and rain so I expected it to be muddy. It definitely was. Since I've had pretty good luck on muddy hunts in the past I figured I was more than willing to get good and dirty to find some treasure.
So I didn't really have much time and I have some car problems at the moment and didn't wanna' drive too far, so I went to my nearby trusty "pounded" field that always seems to give up something no matter how many times I hunt it. The targets are really few and far between these days though. I've hit this site SO many times at this point.
So I started swinging and began digging pull tabs, can slaw and one clad dime. Then I got a nice hit in the high zinc range; a solid 79, and out popped this little beauty........
....a cool little Sterling arrowhead pendant. I was happy because silver makes any hunt a good one in my book.
After a little while I dug up a 1914 Wheatie and then a small, cool old octagonal flat button that still has some gilding on one side and the loop still intact.....
It was getting late so I decided to just dig up some more pull tabs from a really trashy area in the hopes of scoring some gold. So after digging a bunch of pull tabs and trash for almost an hour, I got a nice solid 58 hit and no more than two or three inches down, out popped ring number 59; a nice old 10K, Jenkins White Gold class ring from 1974. This is my first white gold find so I was pretty happy. It's from Walbrook High (wherever that is).
Here it is as I found it....
And after a very quick warm water rinse.....
It looks yellow in the pics but it's definitely white. My camera is over 10 years old so that may be part of the problem. The stone is in surprisingly good shape given the fact that the bottom half is so bent. I guess it's a garnet. It would be really cool if it turned out to be a ruby but I doubt it. I've been told that you don't see rubies set in 10K very often.
There is a name engraved inside. It says "William" but I can't make out the last name yet. I have it soaking in some Dawn and warm water. I'll see if I can track down the owner once I figure out where it originated and decipher the last name.
I'm so happy I decided to just dig a bunch of pull tabs. I know it's a pain but that's where the gold always seems to be hiding. Plus, I'm cleaning up the site a little more each time I do it. I still have a long way to go but I'm hoping there's more gold hiding in there. This has definitely been the most productive jewelry site I've hunted so far. I just can't believe the number of rings this spot has produced.
Overall, I'm really happy with the first hunt of the year. I didn't dig a huge number of treasures but I got some good stuff. This is also the fourth class ring I've dug from this field; three 10K and one Valadium. I guess it really is true that no site is every completely hunted out.
Maybe after a few months of weather, the blizzard and the steady rain, things got stirred up a bit. I've definitely swung over the very spot where the ring appeared many times before but I guess today the conditions were just right; not to mention the luck factor of course. Gotta' love that lady luck.
One thing I've learned on this journey is that if you want to find rings, hit well used sports fields and dig everything above iron. The older the site, the better. The amount of jewelry people lose playing sports is just astounding. Plus, when it's good and muddy the targets really seem to just jump under the coil. It's real messy but it can be very rewarding at times (or not).
I guess that's about it.
Thanks for looking and HH......
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