surface find

Thought I'd share this on here even though this wasn't my metal detecting find. I had my 30th birthday this week, and my grandpa gifted me this beautiful 1884 silver Morgan Dollar he found on his property back when he first built his house in the 1970s! He built on an area that was forested so...

The ground was too frozen to detect but it was a great day for a walk with temperatures in the lower 40s. I got out to a new section of woods with the kids. While walking down a ravine I spotted an old ax head laying on top of the ground. The side facing the air cleaned up very nice with very...

While checking out a possible homesteading site we weren't finding much. Best relic was a copper oil lantern lid/wick adjuster jobby. Rest was junk from back country parties and fisherfolk. So, disheartened, I was kickin stones on the way back to the car when I spotted that unmistakable...

This surface find was out of my league as a detectorist and beachcomber. When i saw this sitting in the surf on the sand and approached it I was shocked to realize I knew what it was right away. This comes from someone who has never been able to find a complete point of any sort in my 65 yrs of...

Hello TreasureNet! I am excited to join this lively forum. I have been interested in the lure of treasure since I was a child. My Grandmother titled me "the-sharp-eyed-little-monster" because I always seemed to find loose coins, buttons and other shiny objects on the ground. Finding treasure has...