McCDig
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- Location
- Baltimore, Maryland
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- Fisher F75
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Mentioned in my last post that I would be leaving the Baltimore City parks for a time and trying a new spot in the county. With the snow holding off 'til late morning I headed out. First coin of the day was a 1972 memorial. Along the way I dug a length of chain, shotgun headstamp, lock part, and then another memorial, a 1959D.
Couldn't hunt the corn fields since the stubble was so high, so I stuck to the road through the fields and dug a shallow target that turned out to be a token for the Garden State Parkway. I found out later that these were last made by NJ in 2002 and were last redeemable at the end of 2008. Heading down to where I parked the truck I got a banging signal that turned out to be an entire horse bridle, so there's lots of brass in the form of rings and buckles; this was very shallow, so it is a modern drop.
Headed into another field and got into an area with iron signals and finally dug my first relic of the day, a flat button with shank missing. From that same area came a piece of lead that was as deep as the flat button.
I moved on to yet another field and saw there was a prominence there, so I thought, "maybe a good site for a home?". Well, not long after searching there I get this repeatable 85 on the F75 and dig down 7 to 8 inches to find a large cent, 1832!
You'll notice the piece of brass with stamped letters FRENCH ICE. If I told you what that really is, you'd figure out where I was detecting.
Check out the dig on the largie.
Couldn't hunt the corn fields since the stubble was so high, so I stuck to the road through the fields and dug a shallow target that turned out to be a token for the Garden State Parkway. I found out later that these were last made by NJ in 2002 and were last redeemable at the end of 2008. Heading down to where I parked the truck I got a banging signal that turned out to be an entire horse bridle, so there's lots of brass in the form of rings and buckles; this was very shallow, so it is a modern drop.
Headed into another field and got into an area with iron signals and finally dug my first relic of the day, a flat button with shank missing. From that same area came a piece of lead that was as deep as the flat button.
I moved on to yet another field and saw there was a prominence there, so I thought, "maybe a good site for a home?". Well, not long after searching there I get this repeatable 85 on the F75 and dig down 7 to 8 inches to find a large cent, 1832!
You'll notice the piece of brass with stamped letters FRENCH ICE. If I told you what that really is, you'd figure out where I was detecting.
Check out the dig on the largie.
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I am surprised that no Indians showed up during the hunt.
