Hello everyone, my name is Jim, I am fairly new to MDing but have been lurking around for a while, yesterday I was out detecting a wooded area and was only finding pieces of iron here and there , i stopped and surveyed the area as a whole and noticed the trees roughly lined in 2 rows so i placed myself in the middle and started swinging, i was hitting the base of all the trees and got a signal, i looked around and this was the biggest tree in the area, HUGE TREE, so i started digging and hit iron, so i poked around with my digger and kept digging, it was a flat piece of metal about 4" wide and 1' out from under the tree,next to it a leather strap so i pulled on it and it ripped off, after inspection it turned out to be part of a sleeve of an old sweater, so i dug more and tried to bend the iron but the roots have grown over it and it goes under the tree, i heard people in the area so i filled the hole and covered it with leaves, I need to go back with a shovel and dig deeper, it is all i have been thinking of!!! is it possible a farmer or ?? buried some loot under there? i think it was an old farm years ago. Man i am loving this hobby/sickness.