Cellar Hole Questions

[metaldetectingtaylor]

I recently found a cellar hole that I want to detect. Was just looking for some tips on how to tackle it. Should I just go everywhere within the hole and then around it?

Sounds odd but I wanted to see if there were any tips.

Thanks, MDT

 

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[TerryC]

Taylor, Cellar holes can be TOUGH. (are you talking cellar hole or "root cellar"- there is a difference). As the property degrades, the holes are very often filled with debri. I would start around the perimeter first. I can almost quarantee the house WAS filled in. Best is the foundation corners... to the privy.... front yard, especially under any trees. Also, the garden. Good luck. TTC

 

[CASPER-2]

bunch of guys had this talk at a hunt last week
most guys hammer around the rim out to maybe 30 yards - but you have to remember
back in the old days these people on a lot of land - so you could find stuff 100 yards away or more
to make a quick score - do around the perimeter slow and thorough
if you can take out everything - iron and all - if it is a good hole
if you are make good finds - then branch out to other parts of the property
most holes are filled with trees and rocks - have only founda few that you could hit the floor
but if you can - hit that floor - you may find a lot of nails in the cellar hole from when the house caved in
sometimes they moved the house or took the wood and used for something else
one thing I always try to do - is run your machine over the cellar hole walls - I have never got anything out standing
yet - but know others that found small guns - knives and small caches hidden in the walls or behind small
field stones

 

[Swartzie]

A cellar hole is a good place to learn your detector as there are so many targets in the ground and most of them are junk. Your job is to find the good stuff among all the junk. The junk is mostly nails and little bits of iron pieces. Like others have said. Work the perimeter. When your in a trashy spot go slow and use very short swings of your coil. You want to work your coil in between the trash. Cellar holes are about patience and persistence. Don't let them get to you and keep coming back. You should find a few keepers, but you'll have to work for them.

-Swartzie