Last week i spent an afternoon on a NC beach and found only 1 quarter and a skoal can about 2 feet deep full of fireworks fuses( Bill dumped a lot of sand on the beach ...almost no readings.). As I worked my way to the pier, there was a guy and a ladyfriend of his sitting under the pier. As i was passing them , they pointed to the ground and were saying something. i backed up and scanned the area they were pointing to and found a penny they had thrown in the sand to see if i would find it. I took off my headphones and got the usual questions ..."have you found anything?" and "what is the best thing you ever found?" I mentioned that i usually hunt for CW relics and i was hunting beaches until the Fall. The guy told me he knows of a place i would probably love to hunt. bear in mind , this guy is drunk, apparently has a hard time staying focused and hardly seems like a credible character. He told me he occasionally works for a guy that owns some land that he plans on developing into a subdivision that has lots of trenches, cannon batteries, earthworks etc. I asked if I could get the owner's name and number and he was happy to give me that info. I was a bit skeptical at first until I called the owner the other day and he confirmed what the drunk guy had told me. The property owner told me he had found shell frags, harmonica reeds and some bullets on the site and that i was welcome to hunt on the property. He told me some of the history of the area and gave me detailed instructions how to get there (I googled the area and could see the trench lines he described from the satellite images). He is in the process of developing the site as a subdivision and will be preserving the earthworks and placing replica cannons at the original cannon emplacements. I was anxious to hunt this site , so today i went to it and sure enough ....lots of huge trench lines and cannon emplacements. Trenches were 6 ft high on one side and about 9 ft high on the other side. I hunted the area for about 3 hours and found 2 cannonball fragments, a few tent/railroad spikes and a few other bits of iron ...no lead or brass yet other than a couple of modern bullets and shell casings.
I'm looking forward to hunting this area this Fall and Winter.
It just goes to show you that even the drunks under the pier have valuable treasure hunting info and it pays to take the time to chat with others and follow up on leads. Here are my finds today
HH y'all
I'm looking forward to hunting this area this Fall and Winter.
It just goes to show you that even the drunks under the pier have valuable treasure hunting info and it pays to take the time to chat with others and follow up on leads. Here are my finds today
HH y'all
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I also have to commend you on that follow up call to the developer and getting permission.
