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1778 Colonial House hunt

Channon

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Massachusetts
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Garrett AT Pro, Equinox 800
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Metal Detecting
My uncle’s house was built in 1778 so it’s one of my favorite places to go. I lived on the second floor for a year so I beat it up pretty hard with my AT Pro. I just got my Equinox 800 and wanted to give it another go around.

I only spent a couple of hours there and my my notable find was a sterling silver ring. It was very thin and unfortunately it broke while I was recovering it. [emoji24]
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He also has a crawl space that is accessed through the bottom shelf of a cupboard. I took my pinpointer in with me and poked around. I found pieces of a broken bottle (looked like blown glass but it’s really dark in there) and a coin. I couldn’t get out fast enough when I rubbed it and saw a gold color. It ended up being a 1974 20 Bhutan Chetrum (made of aluminum-bronze). The people who lived there before him must have been travelers or coon collectors because I also found a German coin in the yard in previous hunts.
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This winter I’m going to do his basement which has a dirt floor. He found some colonial British pennies down there but they were stolen when his house was broken into.
 
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Cool finds, congrats!
 

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