brianc053
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- Sussex County, DE
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- Minelab Equinox 800
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- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Hi everyone. Since the farm field I post about is covered in pumpkins I researched a new location here in town: a ball field that I can see on old aerial photography back into at least the 1930's. The question was: had anyone pulled all the coins and other treasures out of the field in the past? I'll come back to that question in a minute.
I did something new on this hunt: I met up with two other guys who live here in town who have basic detectors and haven't detected much. Ironically they both have Bounty Hunter Time Rangers (coincidence that they bought the same machine); one of them had read the manual and done a little testing, the other was taking it out of the box for the first time.
We were at the park for about 2 hours and I happily spent half that time giving them advice and instruction. (#1 lesson: dig a clean careful plug, and make sure you replace the dirt & sod the way you found it. One of the guys started hacking into the ground before I could pass along that instruction... This location was next to where all the municipal vehicles fuel up, so we had 3 cop cars drive by and one stopped to ask what we were finding. None of them gave us any trouble - they were great).
During the 2 hours we found a lot of coins. Well, my Equinox 800 found most of them, though one of the guys did find one quarter. The other guys dug a decent amount of trash since they haven't learned how to discriminate yet. But I think both of them were hooked on detecting!
As for whether this field has been detected: it certainly wasn't detected in the last 10 or so years, because most of the coins I found were from the 1990's and newer. But the 1939 Mercury Dime and a 1939 Wheat Penny has me wondering whether it'd been detected at all. Those 30's coins were in obvious easy to detect locations, so either they were missed or the field hasn't been detected.
I'll be going back very soon to see if there's more silver.
And I thought the owl earring was just cool. I can't even guess as to age; could be 20 years old or could be more. Who knows.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this!
Brian
I did something new on this hunt: I met up with two other guys who live here in town who have basic detectors and haven't detected much. Ironically they both have Bounty Hunter Time Rangers (coincidence that they bought the same machine); one of them had read the manual and done a little testing, the other was taking it out of the box for the first time.
We were at the park for about 2 hours and I happily spent half that time giving them advice and instruction. (#1 lesson: dig a clean careful plug, and make sure you replace the dirt & sod the way you found it. One of the guys started hacking into the ground before I could pass along that instruction... This location was next to where all the municipal vehicles fuel up, so we had 3 cop cars drive by and one stopped to ask what we were finding. None of them gave us any trouble - they were great).
During the 2 hours we found a lot of coins. Well, my Equinox 800 found most of them, though one of the guys did find one quarter. The other guys dug a decent amount of trash since they haven't learned how to discriminate yet. But I think both of them were hooked on detecting!
As for whether this field has been detected: it certainly wasn't detected in the last 10 or so years, because most of the coins I found were from the 1990's and newer. But the 1939 Mercury Dime and a 1939 Wheat Penny has me wondering whether it'd been detected at all. Those 30's coins were in obvious easy to detect locations, so either they were missed or the field hasn't been detected.
I'll be going back very soon to see if there's more silver.
And I thought the owl earring was just cool. I can't even guess as to age; could be 20 years old or could be more. Who knows.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this!
Brian
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