Brendan M.
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- Joined
- Apr 14, 2006
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- 650
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- Location
- Warrensburg, New York
- Detector(s) used
- White's DFX, Bullseye II pinpointer, Gray Ghost Headphones
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hello All,
Well it stopped raining and gusting by mid-afternoon today and the sun came out, so I decided to squeeze in a couple of hours before dark. It was a better two hours than I've had sometimes all day on an 8-hour hunt!
I hit an old house site/cellar hole that I've been to before, and have previously had mixed results. I figured the wet ground might help. I also decided to tweak the pre-amp gain two notches on my XLT. What a difference! I literally went over the same ground I'd been over before, but it was as if it was a different place entirely. I knew things were good when everything was reading about 3-5 inches down, if not more. Nearly every signal I got ended up being something cool, and the signals were plentiful -- everything I found was in a roughly 25x15 rectangular patch of earth!
Here's the rundown: several buckles, including a French CH Guyot suspender buckle from the 1920s; a nice old crotal bell that still rings; several old shotgun shells; a piece of a lantern (the part the wick comes through); a 1917 NY State Dog Tax tag (the oldest I've found!); a lovely old spoon with ornamentation on the front and back; a silver 1939 Washington quarter; some big iron relics (a scythe blade, a handle that almost looks like a knife hilt, a big hook, and more -- not pictured); an odd quarter-sized coin or token that's toast (any cleaning ideas?); and my favorite and most intriguing find of the day -- a silver pipe stem, which best of all, is engraved with the initials of the former landowner (H.B.H, Jr.) from back in the 1900s!!! For me that's like finding the bell on a sunken ship.
There are maker's marks on it as well: it says "AF & Co.," has a triangle with three B's in it, and some sort of coat of arms or insignia. (As you see below, I later found out, the pipe maker is BBB -- which I believe is short for "Birmingham Bent Billiard". I'm guessing the silversmith is AF & Co. Based on what I've found online it looks like it was manufactured in Birmingham, UK, around 1910 or so.)
Moral of the story: Practice makes perfect. I'm just about two years into this hobby, and have finally started to understand my machine better. (Hunting with my talented bud Joe G. hasn't hurt, either.) A few tweaks apparently make a huge difference. I can't wait to go back now and pound this place! I'll keep ya posted.
Cheers and HH,
Brendan
Well it stopped raining and gusting by mid-afternoon today and the sun came out, so I decided to squeeze in a couple of hours before dark. It was a better two hours than I've had sometimes all day on an 8-hour hunt!
I hit an old house site/cellar hole that I've been to before, and have previously had mixed results. I figured the wet ground might help. I also decided to tweak the pre-amp gain two notches on my XLT. What a difference! I literally went over the same ground I'd been over before, but it was as if it was a different place entirely. I knew things were good when everything was reading about 3-5 inches down, if not more. Nearly every signal I got ended up being something cool, and the signals were plentiful -- everything I found was in a roughly 25x15 rectangular patch of earth!
Here's the rundown: several buckles, including a French CH Guyot suspender buckle from the 1920s; a nice old crotal bell that still rings; several old shotgun shells; a piece of a lantern (the part the wick comes through); a 1917 NY State Dog Tax tag (the oldest I've found!); a lovely old spoon with ornamentation on the front and back; a silver 1939 Washington quarter; some big iron relics (a scythe blade, a handle that almost looks like a knife hilt, a big hook, and more -- not pictured); an odd quarter-sized coin or token that's toast (any cleaning ideas?); and my favorite and most intriguing find of the day -- a silver pipe stem, which best of all, is engraved with the initials of the former landowner (H.B.H, Jr.) from back in the 1900s!!! For me that's like finding the bell on a sunken ship.
There are maker's marks on it as well: it says "AF & Co.," has a triangle with three B's in it, and some sort of coat of arms or insignia. (As you see below, I later found out, the pipe maker is BBB -- which I believe is short for "Birmingham Bent Billiard". I'm guessing the silversmith is AF & Co. Based on what I've found online it looks like it was manufactured in Birmingham, UK, around 1910 or so.)Moral of the story: Practice makes perfect. I'm just about two years into this hobby, and have finally started to understand my machine better. (Hunting with my talented bud Joe G. hasn't hurt, either.) A few tweaks apparently make a huge difference. I can't wait to go back now and pound this place! I'll keep ya posted.
Cheers and HH,
Brendan
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That globe button and the IH I found there were right in the middle of lots of junk
