Wednesday was my birthday. I decided to get off my lazy retired butt and go find something. I started out scouting a new permission. It's only 3/4 of a mile south of my house. It's an obsolete corn crib sitting in an ag field where there use to be a house. It was beans last year, and they chiseled it after harvest. It's just starting to melt down and I walked in the mud to see if I could find where the house was.
There were lots of brick bats and broken pieces of pottery that covered a large area on one side of the barn. I asked the landowner if anyone had detected it and he said not that he knew. His family has owned the land for 70 yrs. It should be a good spot if it ever dries out.
Next I went to a spot along the creek about 1/2 mi. west of my house. I remembered seeing some bottles in a ditch that ran into the creek when I was bowhunting there several years ago. I also wanted to try and detect the bed of the creek.
I found 3 bottles in the ditch and one that had washed farther down the creek. I couldn't figure out where the bottles were eroding out. Cod liver oil and castoria. Yuk! Glad I didn't grow up in that household.
I took the AT into creek bed and was thwarted by iron. I couldn't believe how much old iron they had thrown into the creek. Or it eroded down into the creek from the edge.(?) I gave up on the creek bed and went up in the woods, just above where the bottles were. The AT went off and rang up a 76. I hoping for a silver coin, but out popped this spoon. My first spoon, and a nice one. Engraved F. Boyd on the handle. Curious though, would your silverware have your name or your wife's? Three marks on the back. I think the first is a bird, then B, and maybe another bird. Rains started and I left. Bottles cleaned up pretty good as did the spoon. Gary
There were lots of brick bats and broken pieces of pottery that covered a large area on one side of the barn. I asked the landowner if anyone had detected it and he said not that he knew. His family has owned the land for 70 yrs. It should be a good spot if it ever dries out.
Next I went to a spot along the creek about 1/2 mi. west of my house. I remembered seeing some bottles in a ditch that ran into the creek when I was bowhunting there several years ago. I also wanted to try and detect the bed of the creek.
I found 3 bottles in the ditch and one that had washed farther down the creek. I couldn't figure out where the bottles were eroding out. Cod liver oil and castoria. Yuk! Glad I didn't grow up in that household.
I took the AT into creek bed and was thwarted by iron. I couldn't believe how much old iron they had thrown into the creek. Or it eroded down into the creek from the edge.(?) I gave up on the creek bed and went up in the woods, just above where the bottles were. The AT went off and rang up a 76. I hoping for a silver coin, but out popped this spoon. My first spoon, and a nice one. Engraved F. Boyd on the handle. Curious though, would your silverware have your name or your wife's? Three marks on the back. I think the first is a bird, then B, and maybe another bird. Rains started and I left. Bottles cleaned up pretty good as did the spoon. Gary
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