new orleans

hey yall! im Shimoji and im a completely amateur antique bottle hunter (and whatever other old things i can find). Right now im nostly walking the park lagoons and the mississippi river getting LOTS of old broken glass. Im interested in doing a privy dig and trying to find the old town dumps...

Hi, I'm new here! I'm a house historian/preservationist by trade and a major history nerd. I was just given my first detector as a gift, as I've been talking about wanting one...I've been into hunting bottles and other relics for some time now, I'm mostly interested in the detector as a way to...

Hello and Thanks to the forum. Really helpful information for me. I just got a basic metal detector (Discovery 3300), having fun in the yard with it. Found two quarters, a dime , a penny and some trash. All were what I thought was pretty deep. Around 6 inches and seemed to have been there a...

Hi. I found this piece on the grounds of an old plantation around New Orleans. Definitely is made to hold, but I can’t figure out what it is supposed to be. I don’t even know if the curved piece is supposed to be bent the way it is. Any help in identifying would be appreciated!

Credibility?! lol. Aside from the satirical article, I once had a homeless man tell me that many of the wealthy residents of New Orleans hid their valuables in their septic tanks when it was rumored the Union was invading...

Newly christened treasure hunter on the river banks and in the swamps in Louisiana. I visited my brother in West Virginia a couple of weeks back and we ended up purchasing a MineLab Etrac to scour the land for valuables. We came out of the week with unidentifiable metal pieces, small copper...

New to the TreasureNet community! I recently began metal detecting with my brother in West Virginia coming across a old indistinguishable metal pieces, an id tag, pieces of copper, and a large pile of beer cans. Currently, I'm using my two hands and eyes to find surface materials in and around...