CoilFisher
Hero Member
- Jul 17, 2011
- 957
- 251
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I went back to the usual at some territory I detected several years ago; a nice wooded area that bordered an early 20th century school.
I think it would be best described as an old picnic area, though it does have a small area for the kids to gather and play.
I wanted to get into the woods today as the ground dried up quite a bit from the warm weather and not even a shower lately.
I could not think of anywhere more decent than this place at the time, and if anything else thought it would just be fun.
It has history as it dates back to the late 1800's. I found some old tokens, wheat cents, and Indians there in the past, but never anything else.
It was and is a trash heap. I mean literally. There are cans (new and old) all over the place, broken bottles, litter strewn.
Before today I thought it was totally cleaned out, and I believed I cleaned the last of it out some years back.
My finds were not outstanding today, but it dawned on me that I did not come close to getting them all, nor did I go over the entire area.
In fact, I am realizing I did not cover much in my previous attempts. I think all the junk around seemed too overwhelming at that time perhaps.
Anyway, I started further over from where I did last time I visited and was not there 15 minutes and the first coin I dug was the '35 Merc.
I was thinking today is looking real good!
Not a ton of great finds after that, but I think there may be a good keeper lurking there somewhere with a little more diligence.
((Did a small river bed a couple days back and got skunked. Not one good keeper to post, just bullets and some clad. I was thinking with the water levels down so much, I would go and check
out an old fishing/swimming river. Nothing great came out of that creek bed. I have yet to pull a decent keeper from the bed of a creek)).
Anyway, HH !
I think it would be best described as an old picnic area, though it does have a small area for the kids to gather and play.
I wanted to get into the woods today as the ground dried up quite a bit from the warm weather and not even a shower lately.
I could not think of anywhere more decent than this place at the time, and if anything else thought it would just be fun.
It has history as it dates back to the late 1800's. I found some old tokens, wheat cents, and Indians there in the past, but never anything else.
It was and is a trash heap. I mean literally. There are cans (new and old) all over the place, broken bottles, litter strewn.
Before today I thought it was totally cleaned out, and I believed I cleaned the last of it out some years back.
My finds were not outstanding today, but it dawned on me that I did not come close to getting them all, nor did I go over the entire area.
In fact, I am realizing I did not cover much in my previous attempts. I think all the junk around seemed too overwhelming at that time perhaps.
Anyway, I started further over from where I did last time I visited and was not there 15 minutes and the first coin I dug was the '35 Merc.
I was thinking today is looking real good!
Not a ton of great finds after that, but I think there may be a good keeper lurking there somewhere with a little more diligence.
((Did a small river bed a couple days back and got skunked. Not one good keeper to post, just bullets and some clad. I was thinking with the water levels down so much, I would go and check
out an old fishing/swimming river. Nothing great came out of that creek bed. I have yet to pull a decent keeper from the bed of a creek)).
Anyway, HH !
Last edited:
Upvote
5
