Deep Ground Scrapes?

[McKinney_5900]

I have an old historic park which has been drained. They are doing a massive renovation, this is my first virgin adventure, yet here is the oddity. They cut down 2-3 feet and, I am serious...even with open disc, there simply is no signals, period.

Can a historic place, have zero targets after a really deep cut?

 

[A2coins]

Yep has happened to me also. I went to a park one time where they brought in fill dirt here in MI and found a 1907 Jamestown exposition coin and lots of cool stuff I think stuff sinks but maybe not really far because of clay . Here anyway....

 

[McKinney_5900]

Yep has happened to me also. I went to a park one time where they brought in fill dirt here in MI and found a 1907 Jamestown exposition coin and lots of cool stuff I think stuff sinks but maybe not really far because of clay . Here anyway....

Thing is, this is ONLY the dirt from the recent cut, meaning that they will literally have a need to haul away a lot of this dig. This has been a landscape for very lucrative finds over a decade, at its original ground level for all these years.

Is history just gone with a deeper cut?

 

[A2coins]

Unfortunately it probably is I see it happen alot. So much new construction. Places that are private propery that no ones allowed on then it gets excavated for a Mall or New Homes ect. Keep trying you might be able to save some more stuff.

 

[Deep1]

Ask the grading contractor where they took the dirt.
Ask permission to hunt it.
I've chased dirt many times.
It can be well worth the effort.