coinman123
Silver Member
Before I moved, I had my greatest ever metal detecting site 15 minutes away. I found it by accident in 2014, and it produced around 20 coppers and 100 buttons, until it dried out in 2016. Anyways, I finally did some lidar on the site, and found the main cellar hole there, but then I noticed another one, in an area I never bothered to check. Unfortunately, this site is now 40 minutes away, and I am going to have to wait until the weekends to hit it. I can't wait to see how it goes!
Right after getting into relic hunting, I went in the woods behind a nearby school and took my metal detector out. I was hoping maybe a hunter dropped something in the 1800's, not expecting anything colonial. In that first day I think I had my first multi button day and colonial buckle, the next day I found my first U.S. large cent (1805) and some more buttons. The cellar hole is now a 10 by 10 foot round and very deep vernal pool, with old rusty fencing around it, and bricks scattered everywhere. I thought that it was just a normal vernal pool, and the bricks were from a trash pile, so I stayed away from it until fall of 2014. I probably got 10 large cents and 50 buttons away from the cellar hole, and the rest of my great finds all in a 50 foot patch around the cellar hole, which was along an old stream. I also found tons of pottery, an old floorboard with rosehead nails in a foot of clay (still haven't grabbed it yet), and old clay pipe bowls and stems. I have to admit, living in the east coast does give you a small advantage when relic hunting. Out west you have a better chance of finding gold coins and rarer s mint coins though!
