Icewing
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- Jan 5, 2016
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Equinox 900 / Garrett PropointerAT.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I'm not sure if I should bother with a long detailed story so I'll try to keep it short.
After getting my two little ones on the school bus and having to take my oldest oldest to get a cast for a broken ankle I headed out without a plan and just felt the need to stop at a place I had had some luck at back when I first started detecting.
Without giving away too many details... I started out on what is now a minimally maintained trail head and started finding the expected clad pennies and stinkers and beaver tail tabs. The first section I hit was a short dead end to locked gate, nothing good. So I started back the other way and this is where things got strange.
About 10 feet in I hit a high tone on the edge of the trail and weeds that turned out to be a deep soda can. Like a good little digger I rechecked the hole by giving it another quick swing and beep beep, better check again. Holy crap It's big and it says Half Penny. Crap it says 1967... Check the hole again, another tone, just slightly lower.New Penny 1967. Sweet 2 foreign coins, good start.
Then a few inches away another weak but clear tone.
Then a few inches away... another.
Then one after another, I had found a buried treasure of sorts, but it was all foreign coins, from all over the planet, all between the 1920'-1970's, and not a one of them was silver.
After a few hours I had wore myself out and was ready for lunch. I know I didn't get it all but my back couldn't take any more, because I had just dug 71 foreign coins from 250 soft (+/-) area along a chain link fence.
After lunch I went out to where I grew up right at 3 miles away to change gears and look for Native American artifacts that might be on the surface along a spring/creek. Aside from one worked and broken piece, again I didn't really find what I expected or but I didn't walk away empty handed either.
The first is a smooth brown rock that is just way out of place, and Isn't "worked" but appears to be shaped like an axe. This isn't just a rock, it's not even from this area. The tougher dry looking side war facing up in the creek and had a thin film of algea, the other side is just as dry by shows its polish.
After that I grabbed my detector and made one quick pass up the backs for kicks to kill time waiting on my brother to get home and found my silver, in the form of a broken tea infuser spoon.
What an unusual day.
After getting my two little ones on the school bus and having to take my oldest oldest to get a cast for a broken ankle I headed out without a plan and just felt the need to stop at a place I had had some luck at back when I first started detecting.
Without giving away too many details... I started out on what is now a minimally maintained trail head and started finding the expected clad pennies and stinkers and beaver tail tabs. The first section I hit was a short dead end to locked gate, nothing good. So I started back the other way and this is where things got strange.
About 10 feet in I hit a high tone on the edge of the trail and weeds that turned out to be a deep soda can. Like a good little digger I rechecked the hole by giving it another quick swing and beep beep, better check again. Holy crap It's big and it says Half Penny. Crap it says 1967... Check the hole again, another tone, just slightly lower.New Penny 1967. Sweet 2 foreign coins, good start.
Then a few inches away another weak but clear tone.
Then a few inches away... another.
Then one after another, I had found a buried treasure of sorts, but it was all foreign coins, from all over the planet, all between the 1920'-1970's, and not a one of them was silver.
After a few hours I had wore myself out and was ready for lunch. I know I didn't get it all but my back couldn't take any more, because I had just dug 71 foreign coins from 250 soft (+/-) area along a chain link fence.
After lunch I went out to where I grew up right at 3 miles away to change gears and look for Native American artifacts that might be on the surface along a spring/creek. Aside from one worked and broken piece, again I didn't really find what I expected or but I didn't walk away empty handed either.
The first is a smooth brown rock that is just way out of place, and Isn't "worked" but appears to be shaped like an axe. This isn't just a rock, it's not even from this area. The tougher dry looking side war facing up in the creek and had a thin film of algea, the other side is just as dry by shows its polish.
After that I grabbed my detector and made one quick pass up the backs for kicks to kill time waiting on my brother to get home and found my silver, in the form of a broken tea infuser spoon.
What an unusual day.
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