crazyjarhead
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- Sep 10, 2007
- 10,318
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- Detector(s) used
- Ace 250
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Hello everyone, Been on the road out west and just got back yesterday. I needed my R&R so you know what I had to do. 
I went to a new site that I had permission to hunt back in the spring but the grass had been too high. Well the farmer finally gave it a haircut and I was loving it when I drove up to it yesterday and say that it had been cut. It's still a little tall (5 inches) but not tall enough to give up a few keepers. One of them my oldest yet........1828 LC
There was an old colonial style home there until the early 70's. It was burnt down by the fire department in a training excercise.
I guess it was too old and no one wanted it anymore. I was told by the farmer who is 75 that the home across the road is similar to the one that was there. He also told me a story about 2 old ladies that lived there in it's final years. They were always next to the fireplace trying to keep warm in that old home by themselves. Too bad it had to end that way 
I headed up the lane that leads back to where the home stood. Having hunted there before a little I knew that the area where the home actually stood was littered with melted debris and junk. So I concentrated away from the yard and down the sloping hillside. Not 15 minutes in to the hunt I dug a LC. I thought first that it was a draped bust but maybe next time. I also dug a modern merc New compared to the 1828 LC I had just dug.
I included a picture of the house across the street and also a picture of 1 of 3 large white oaks on the property. I parked my detecting car beside the largest. It must be 3-4 hundred years old. I'll have to look good around these trees for coins from picnics of centuries ago.
Thanks for looking......Ron
I went to a new site that I had permission to hunt back in the spring but the grass had been too high. Well the farmer finally gave it a haircut and I was loving it when I drove up to it yesterday and say that it had been cut. It's still a little tall (5 inches) but not tall enough to give up a few keepers. One of them my oldest yet........1828 LC There was an old colonial style home there until the early 70's. It was burnt down by the fire department in a training excercise.
I guess it was too old and no one wanted it anymore. I was told by the farmer who is 75 that the home across the road is similar to the one that was there. He also told me a story about 2 old ladies that lived there in it's final years. They were always next to the fireplace trying to keep warm in that old home by themselves. Too bad it had to end that way I headed up the lane that leads back to where the home stood. Having hunted there before a little I knew that the area where the home actually stood was littered with melted debris and junk. So I concentrated away from the yard and down the sloping hillside. Not 15 minutes in to the hunt I dug a LC. I thought first that it was a draped bust but maybe next time. I also dug a modern merc
New compared to the 1828 LC I had just dug.I included a picture of the house across the street and also a picture of 1 of 3 large white oaks on the property. I parked my detecting car beside the largest. It must be 3-4 hundred years old. I'll have to look good around these trees for coins from picnics of centuries ago.
Thanks for looking......Ron
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