OutdoorAdv
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- Apr 16, 2013
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Equinox 800,
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- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
This weekend I ruined metal detecting for myself! With yesterdays Bust Half, 2 Reale and 1 Reale pocket spill, and what I dug up today... I don't know how a weekend of detecting could get any better.
Same place as yesterday.
I don't even know where to begin, so here is a group shot!
My first significant find about 30 min in was whats left of these shoulder scales. I knew right away what I had and was bummed out how brittle and wasted they were. I wrapped them in a paper towel and they sat in a coat pocket, hanging on a tree, for the rest of the hunt. I will still proudly display them and there is enough left to tell what it was.
All cleaned up. The buckle was in the same hole.
Next up was this stirrup.
I found another one an hour or so later, but I was too tired to take my camera out for another shot. I was carrying about 30lbs of iron in my backpack by this point.
Then the find that put my morning over the top.
I nicked the bottom right corner with my digger... dont want to talk about that anymore. ha But I am leaving the dirt on it and I dry brushed it, so the nick isn't that noticeable.
After the hole was empty, this was the contents. There was also a thin bone in there and some white chalky stuff. The blob at the top of the plate, appears to be melted lead, but most of the lead remains in the back. It was face down in the hole. I saw no ash. Firepit?
More shots. Check out the bone handle knife!
And the iron. This place is loaded with big iron and this is 90% of the iron that I dug today. Some I had to leave behind because my backpack was full and weighted a ton on my hike out... I will clean it up later
Notice the lack of small targets. All of these big signals scream on my v3i. This is one of the hardest places I have detected. Nearly every hole has multiple targets in it.... I went in to look for the rest of the bone handle for the knife and there was that "C" shaped brass buckle piece in the hole (the one below the US plate in the top picture)... my detector was not even reading it, just negative iron... I only found it because I was using my pin pointer... I wish I could say it was a trash pit, but every hole here seems like a trash pit. The big iron is all over and the iron nails are scattered in the middle of those. Add the tall grass and its not ideal. Luckily the big stuff I've been digging is pretty sweet!
Same place as yesterday.
I don't even know where to begin, so here is a group shot!
My first significant find about 30 min in was whats left of these shoulder scales. I knew right away what I had and was bummed out how brittle and wasted they were. I wrapped them in a paper towel and they sat in a coat pocket, hanging on a tree, for the rest of the hunt. I will still proudly display them and there is enough left to tell what it was.
All cleaned up. The buckle was in the same hole.
Next up was this stirrup.
I found another one an hour or so later, but I was too tired to take my camera out for another shot. I was carrying about 30lbs of iron in my backpack by this point.
Then the find that put my morning over the top.
I nicked the bottom right corner with my digger... dont want to talk about that anymore. ha But I am leaving the dirt on it and I dry brushed it, so the nick isn't that noticeable.
After the hole was empty, this was the contents. There was also a thin bone in there and some white chalky stuff. The blob at the top of the plate, appears to be melted lead, but most of the lead remains in the back. It was face down in the hole. I saw no ash. Firepit?
More shots. Check out the bone handle knife!
And the iron. This place is loaded with big iron and this is 90% of the iron that I dug today. Some I had to leave behind because my backpack was full and weighted a ton on my hike out... I will clean it up later
Notice the lack of small targets. All of these big signals scream on my v3i. This is one of the hardest places I have detected. Nearly every hole has multiple targets in it.... I went in to look for the rest of the bone handle for the knife and there was that "C" shaped brass buckle piece in the hole (the one below the US plate in the top picture)... my detector was not even reading it, just negative iron... I only found it because I was using my pin pointer... I wish I could say it was a trash pit, but every hole here seems like a trash pit. The big iron is all over and the iron nails are scattered in the middle of those. Add the tall grass and its not ideal. Luckily the big stuff I've been digging is pretty sweet!
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that's one great site you have
it's going to be hard to top. What did you use to carry all that,a shopping bag? Sheesh
