- Jan 27, 2015
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Minelab Equinox 800
XP Deus 2
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I needed to detect, so I drove to the beach! Found $0.0125 cents
Hi everyone. Where I live in NJ there is still about 20" of snow on the ground, and I've officially got cabin fever. I felt the need to hear my machine beep at something, so I drove about 90 minutes to the Jersey Shore yesterday for an afternoon low tide.
I'm not that familiar with beach detecting; sure I've detected warm beaches during summer vacations, but never in the winter. The temperature was about 28 degrees with a 15-20mph wind, so - cold. In preparation I'd watched others' videos of winter beach detecting (shout out to Metal Detecting NYC and Merril), so I knew that I needed to wear chest waders and multiple layers under them, and except for my detector-holding hand I was warm.
The beach was pretty empty, although one other detectorist zipped through the area while I was there (either I'm slow or he's fast....). I was there for a total of maybe 2.5 hours, and I'm very happy with the results.
Before going down yesterday I told a friend that I'd be happy finding a single penny. Well, I did a little better than that: I found one penny - the only coin of the day - plus about 25% of another one (thus the $0.0125 total in clad found, though I know the bank wouldn't accept that penny fragment).
The most interesting find was probably the copper lipstick tube. It doesn't have any markings, though, so I don't think I'll be able to determine an age. I'd guess from the construction that it's mid-20th century.
Mixed in the other metal junk there's also a piece of a lead toy car, which again was something with some age.
My favorite finds of the day, however, were the beach glass pieces. I haven't seen beach glass like this in years - maybe decades - because where I normally visit the beach (Delaware) there just doesn't seem to be any more. I asked a friend about this beach and he said this was unusual for this beach too. Mixed in there toward the top of the picture is a piece of the milk glass from a mason jar lid - that glass could be 100 years old. I didn't go out of my way to pick up beach glass; this was just what was in the area of where I was swinging the coil. I threw in some nice rounded rocks because I think I'm going to make a display out of that stuff.
Overall it was a great day because it satisfied my need to hear the detector beep, and that should hold me over until the snow melts.
Hi everyone. Where I live in NJ there is still about 20" of snow on the ground, and I've officially got cabin fever. I felt the need to hear my machine beep at something, so I drove about 90 minutes to the Jersey Shore yesterday for an afternoon low tide.
I'm not that familiar with beach detecting; sure I've detected warm beaches during summer vacations, but never in the winter. The temperature was about 28 degrees with a 15-20mph wind, so - cold. In preparation I'd watched others' videos of winter beach detecting (shout out to Metal Detecting NYC and Merril), so I knew that I needed to wear chest waders and multiple layers under them, and except for my detector-holding hand I was warm.
The beach was pretty empty, although one other detectorist zipped through the area while I was there (either I'm slow or he's fast....). I was there for a total of maybe 2.5 hours, and I'm very happy with the results.
Before going down yesterday I told a friend that I'd be happy finding a single penny. Well, I did a little better than that: I found one penny - the only coin of the day - plus about 25% of another one (thus the $0.0125 total in clad found, though I know the bank wouldn't accept that penny fragment).
The most interesting find was probably the copper lipstick tube. It doesn't have any markings, though, so I don't think I'll be able to determine an age. I'd guess from the construction that it's mid-20th century.
Mixed in the other metal junk there's also a piece of a lead toy car, which again was something with some age.
My favorite finds of the day, however, were the beach glass pieces. I haven't seen beach glass like this in years - maybe decades - because where I normally visit the beach (Delaware) there just doesn't seem to be any more. I asked a friend about this beach and he said this was unusual for this beach too. Mixed in there toward the top of the picture is a piece of the milk glass from a mason jar lid - that glass could be 100 years old. I didn't go out of my way to pick up beach glass; this was just what was in the area of where I was swinging the coil. I threw in some nice rounded rocks because I think I'm going to make a display out of that stuff.
Overall it was a great day because it satisfied my need to hear the detector beep, and that should hold me over until the snow melts.
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