jgas
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- Apr 23, 2008
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Stopped by an 1846 Circa Historical home that is a county landmark and asked the big question, "Can I please detect your home?" The answer was yes by the nice lady who resides there with her husband. She said come out and help her find her long lost wedding ring. She proceeded to tell me where she thought it was lost and to tell me about the home.
Built in 1846 with hand made bricks and located on an Indian trail(now a main highway). I told her that me and my friend and my two daughters would come out and try to find her ring. Well it took me about a week of torture in anticipation of getting out there and putting coil to ground. Had a window betweeen the rain storms and work to get out and do some searching. Started at around 9:00am and began a grid in the area of the lost ring. This property is fairly huge with wooded areas and a large grassy area. It looks ideal for a good weeks worth of hunting at least.
My hunting partner Don began his search with the DFX and standard 9.5 coil. I was using the Whites Pro6000 with a bullseye coil. I was locating a few targets that could possibly be the ring and was about 20 feet away from Don when I heard a noise that made me flip my headphones off and toss them to the ground. It was Don screaming "Oh My GOD!!!" Several times in fact. I then ran over to him and looked in the hole that he had just dug and saw the distictive ONE CENT in the ground. Of course the happy dance was on for both of us. I told him to leave it there while one of my kids grabbed the camera from the car to capture the moment. After a few quick snapshots, Don decided to look at the front to see if he could see the date. He flipped the coin, knowing that the 1812 LC that I had found this year was encrusted and the date is hard to read. As he turned to coin over he saw that the face side was encrusted with dirt. But to his surprise he barely touched the dirt and and the crust fell right off and revealed the prize. An 1853 Large Cent with extremely fine detail. Too bad there is a nick out of the side and the face has a scratch. Don did neither of those marks during the dig though.
He said the DFX sounded off a bit scratchy at first but a repeatable signal in the penny/quarter range. Thinking nothing but clad because it was only 1 and 1/2 inches deep. But whammo...a nice first Large Cent for him. He was obviously freaked out by it all being that it was his very first 1800's era coin and a large cent to boot.
We went on to find one wheat(1946) and a clad dime, quarter and nickle to finish out this 6 hour hunt. Of course we found our fair share of zinc mason jar lids all over the property. My other daughter located some buttons that were attached to some sort of leather. 9 of them all together. I will post all of the those pics soon.
Oh yes, we did not locate the ring this time around, but we will try again soon, real soon..I will post further pics of all the other targets we discovered as soon as I get them cleaned up a bit.....HH jgas
Built in 1846 with hand made bricks and located on an Indian trail(now a main highway). I told her that me and my friend and my two daughters would come out and try to find her ring. Well it took me about a week of torture in anticipation of getting out there and putting coil to ground. Had a window betweeen the rain storms and work to get out and do some searching. Started at around 9:00am and began a grid in the area of the lost ring. This property is fairly huge with wooded areas and a large grassy area. It looks ideal for a good weeks worth of hunting at least.
My hunting partner Don began his search with the DFX and standard 9.5 coil. I was using the Whites Pro6000 with a bullseye coil. I was locating a few targets that could possibly be the ring and was about 20 feet away from Don when I heard a noise that made me flip my headphones off and toss them to the ground. It was Don screaming "Oh My GOD!!!" Several times in fact. I then ran over to him and looked in the hole that he had just dug and saw the distictive ONE CENT in the ground. Of course the happy dance was on for both of us. I told him to leave it there while one of my kids grabbed the camera from the car to capture the moment. After a few quick snapshots, Don decided to look at the front to see if he could see the date. He flipped the coin, knowing that the 1812 LC that I had found this year was encrusted and the date is hard to read. As he turned to coin over he saw that the face side was encrusted with dirt. But to his surprise he barely touched the dirt and and the crust fell right off and revealed the prize. An 1853 Large Cent with extremely fine detail. Too bad there is a nick out of the side and the face has a scratch. Don did neither of those marks during the dig though.
He said the DFX sounded off a bit scratchy at first but a repeatable signal in the penny/quarter range. Thinking nothing but clad because it was only 1 and 1/2 inches deep. But whammo...a nice first Large Cent for him. He was obviously freaked out by it all being that it was his very first 1800's era coin and a large cent to boot.
We went on to find one wheat(1946) and a clad dime, quarter and nickle to finish out this 6 hour hunt. Of course we found our fair share of zinc mason jar lids all over the property. My other daughter located some buttons that were attached to some sort of leather. 9 of them all together. I will post all of the those pics soon.
Oh yes, we did not locate the ring this time around, but we will try again soon, real soon..I will post further pics of all the other targets we discovered as soon as I get them cleaned up a bit.....HH jgas
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