I spent three days metal detecting my two acres this,with conditions very similar to the place your are metal detecting. When I bought the house I knew it would be a nightmare to metal detect it and didn't expect much, I have never found anything good at any colonial cellar hole that has been abandoned within the past seventy five years. Anyways, the telephone lines made metal detecting near the street hard, too much interference. The living room was built around twenty years ago, and anywhere within ten feet of it is going to be under a foot of fill dirt. The house was built in the mid 1740's, based on my extensive research, and has over 250 years of trash. I found around 7 hard silver colored, heavy metal blobs. Four nails and a cable clamp in one hole. I also found a lot of foil, cans, a steel bottle cap, an old small lead bar (it would be cool if it was for making musket balls), I also found the expected pull tabs, square nails, many shotgun shells, and clad. In the woods I found an 1840's button, a hand forged iron sickle, a red Ryder BB gun and a musket ball. The only good finds from the yard were, a mid 1800's butter knife blade, an 1800's copper (probably once silver plated) fiddleback spoon handle, and a tool tag with the name of a local blacksmith who worked in my town in the 1870's-1880's. Anyways, I would be prepared to find a lot of trash, and maybe a few nice relics or coins if you are lucky. I'm guessing that my experience in my yard was probably what you could expect to find around a house that has been around for over 200 years, and has 200 years of trash. Good luck!
