deep plough (very)

[robfinds]

Had a short two hour search late yesterday. The field I chose was one that as never really produced much at all over the years. It was the first time though I had seen it ploughed so deeply, it had to be worth a try. To cut a long story short finds were very sparce indeed, the only interesting find was this very large and thick Scottish copper coin. One side as no detail the other has the usual thistle. I called it a day as the sun was beggining to set and called for a quick pint on the way home.

Hh Robert.

 

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[CRUSADER]

Wow, such deep plowing. Maybe to keep the spuds dry? I would surely return in September or a bit later,
when the crops are out and the ground has less air in it, you will surely find much more.

How can air in the ground make a difference?

When the compacted ground is plowed air gets trapped in the soil, the soil get aerated and becomes loose and deeper. Since a metal detector has a limited depth range in soil, and since the ground is plowed and is loose and aerated the increased distance means that the detector is detecting a smaller distance.

So you find less artifacts. After a while the soil will thru gravity become again dense, it will fall in again when it for instance dries out. Besides time, rain will lessen the time needed to compact again.

That's the way it is. I have traveled in back of many potato harvesting machines and not found anything, and came back in a week and found in the same ground many artifacts and coins...

i wish you didn't say that woody! now i want to go back to a recently deep ploughed field that i have already wasted 3 days on

Theres no hope on that one, other than my mighty XP

this is the one you havn't been on, its worse!!!! i have found one blank coin there in three trips

now there's a challenge

I know, thats why I made the joke

 

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[woody50]

Wow, such deep plowing. Maybe to keep the spuds dry? I would surely return in September or a bit later,
when the crops are out and the ground has less air in it, you will surely find much more.

How can air in the ground make a difference?

When the compacted ground is plowed air gets trapped in the soil, the soil get aerated and becomes loose and deeper. Since a metal detector has a limited depth range in soil, and since the ground is plowed and is loose and aerated the increased distance means that the detector is detecting a smaller distance.
So you find less artifacts. After a while the soil will thru gravity become again dense, it will fall in again when it for instance dries out. Besides time, rain will lessen the time needed to compact again.
That's the way it is. I have traveled in back of many potato harvesting machines and not found anything, and came back in a week and found in the same ground many artifacts and coins...

i wish you didn't say that woody! now i want to go back to a recently deep ploughed field that i have already wasted 3 days on

Well Shaun, on the other hand if there was nothing there, there will still be nothing there. No body is dropping many Celtic golden or hammered coins anymore you know...
Stuff has to be there otherwise you will not see a difference. But what I said about recently plowed land still stands, at least that is my experience...

 

[shaun7]

Wow, such deep plowing. Maybe to keep the spuds dry? I would surely return in September or a bit later,
when the crops are out and the ground has less air in it, you will surely find much more.

How can air in the ground make a difference?

When the compacted ground is plowed air gets trapped in the soil, the soil get aerated and becomes loose and deeper. Since a metal detector has a limited depth range in soil, and since the ground is plowed and is loose and aerated the increased distance means that the detector is detecting a smaller distance.
So you find less artifacts. After a while the soil will thru gravity become again dense, it will fall in again when it for instance dries out. Besides time, rain will lessen the time needed to compact again.
That's the way it is. I have traveled in back of many potato harvesting machines and not found anything, and came back in a week and found in the same ground many artifacts and coins...

i wish you didn't say that woody! now i want to go back to a recently deep ploughed field that i have already wasted 3 days on

Well Shaun, on the other hand if there was nothing there, there will still be nothing there. No body is dropping many Celtic golden or hammered coins anymore you know...
Stuff has to be there otherwise you will not see a difference. But what I said about recently plowed land still stands, at least that is my experience...

yeah, i make you right woody!

i'm going to leave that one alone

 

[Lucky Hat]

Man you guys got it good. Here in Oregon things are not that old.good job on the finds. You have given me some ideas on some old sites. Thanks.

 

[woody50]

Man you guys got it good. Here in Oregon things are not that old.good job on the finds. You have given me some ideas on some old sites. Thanks.

No problem LuckyHat... Glad to see a new member from Oregon. Where is Molalla anyway? With your old sites, just plan on taking your time, look around very good. Think where things could have been. When searching really take your time if you know its old and there has to be something there. Things are always hard to find. If you find say a coin, really search that small area good, also return later before you are done, so mark it. Sometimes just returning to the spot and searching and you find another. "How could I have missed that!". I have said that many times... On old places here in Europe, you have to search many many times before you find everything that is for sure.

 

[acehunter]

Nice coin, it certainly deserves a pint or two. There must be more to find. Good luck.

 

[dirthunter]

Excellent find, congrats on the coin. Very good condition.

 

[STH69]

very deep what the heck?