tnt-hunter
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- Apr 20, 2018
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- Location
- Mountain Maryland
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1
The water in the lake at one of the local state parks is way down. The weather was warm and has been for several days so the sand was not frozen. I have found that the sand freezes faster and stays frozen longer than soil. So I went to one of the 3 beaches and worked an area that is normally under 5 feet of water. I covered this water late in the summer so I wasn’t expecting much, but you never know so off I went.
I spent 5 hours swingin the ATPro and found 4 coins with a face value of $0.70, a nice batch of jewelry, fishing swivels, selfie stick retainers, part of an aluminum rivet, a mini mag light bulb, gripper pieces of old aluminum soda bottle caps, sinkers, fishing lures, part of a watch band buckle, a glasses earpiece, a pair of glasses, a bunch of small foil pieces, 4 tabs and 1 pencil end.
Luckily some of the jewelry is the good stuff. 2 gold earrings (14k), 2 silver earrings, a silver earring back and a silver necklace with a heart. All small pieces, but 6 goodies in 5 hours is a good thing and with the price of gold and silver going up it’s even better.
The necklace is an unusual design. It has an adjustment ball and 2 extra dangling chains. It has a heart with CZs.
One of the earrings is white gold. It is also an unusual design. It has a folded plate that holds the stone without the usual prongs. It is marked PATENT PEND. Also the stone is a diamond and measures at a quarter carat.
The problem with finding all this tiny gold and silver is you also have to find all the tiny pieces of foil and other junk so covering an area takes a long time. You can see how small some of the junky stuff is. All the bigger stuff was cleaned out earlier in warmer weather by myself and others.
DAY 2
I had good luck at the end of the old K to 12 field that has recently been mowed so I decided to see if my luck would hold. It got very cold overnight and we had some snow and freezing rain, but the ground hasn’t had a chance to freeze so I did some swingin. When I got there it was 23 and windy with 30 to 40 MPH gusts so mittens on and coats zipped up tight. It was al least better than home, 15 degrees with 2 inches of snow just as windy.
I could only manage 4 hours in the icebox swingin the CZ21. I managed to find 65 coins with a face value of $5.84, a brass whatzit, an aluminum tag, 2 wheaties, a Canadian penny, a drawer pull, 2 toy cars, a crock decoration, a small D buckle, a button, a key, the front to a brass SARGENT lock, while aluminum cans, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps, foil, 13 tabs and 1 pencil end.
The aluminum tag is part of an old C&P telephone pole tag. I didn’t find the rest of it.
The brass whatzit has 2 recessed screw holes and has a step design. Not sure what it was used for. The piece of a drawer pull is ornate and looks Victorian in style. I found one just like it for sale on line. My guess would be 1920s. It has a number 4047 stamped on the underside.
DAY 3
I have detected 3 different middle schools. School B had lots of civil war bullets and interesting items. I told the principal that the school could have the historic items when I was done. I finished several months ago and got the boxes ready for the school. Today I delivered them to the new principal. The original principal was recently transfer to another school (it happens all the time). Here are pictures of the boxes with the school name blocked out. The new principal was happy and asked me to come back on a teacher work day to make a presentation to the staff about the finds. I also visited the original principal and presented her with a Ryker box of civil war bullets as a thank you for letting me detect.
NOTE: It’s a small world after all. The original principal was on my staff when I was assistant principal of another middle school and the current principal had me as a teacher when he was in the third grade.
The first box has a variety of civil war bullets including pulled and wormed bullets as well as carved ones.
The second box has civil war buttons, knap sack hooks, finials, a bayonet scabbard tip and an officers belt plate. Most of these are the first and only ones I have ever found. (I detect because I like to do it. Accumulating a large pile of stuff is not my goal anymore so giving these items to someone who might really appreciate them is no problem and actually feels good.
The third box has a wide variety of interesting household items from the old farm that was here.
The fourth box contains coins, tokens and chits. The CUMBERLAND TRANSIT LINE token GOOD FOR ONE SCHOOL FARE is something you would expect to find at a school. The B&O TIE PLANT MEAL chits are something I have never seen before. I have not been able to get any information on them and they may be the only ones that have survived. The school got 2 of them. I have 3 more I am offering to the B&O Railroad museum.
So I did my Boy Scout good deed for the day.
No NON DETECTOR FINDS this week and it was short because the weather stopped me. I went out trying to do some swingin, but when I got there the ground was like stone. I thought there had been enough warmth to keep the ground from freezing, but I got that one wrong. Next week we will have some days in the teens and overnight temps close to zero so it may be a while before I get out again.
Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
The water in the lake at one of the local state parks is way down. The weather was warm and has been for several days so the sand was not frozen. I have found that the sand freezes faster and stays frozen longer than soil. So I went to one of the 3 beaches and worked an area that is normally under 5 feet of water. I covered this water late in the summer so I wasn’t expecting much, but you never know so off I went.
I spent 5 hours swingin the ATPro and found 4 coins with a face value of $0.70, a nice batch of jewelry, fishing swivels, selfie stick retainers, part of an aluminum rivet, a mini mag light bulb, gripper pieces of old aluminum soda bottle caps, sinkers, fishing lures, part of a watch band buckle, a glasses earpiece, a pair of glasses, a bunch of small foil pieces, 4 tabs and 1 pencil end.
Luckily some of the jewelry is the good stuff. 2 gold earrings (14k), 2 silver earrings, a silver earring back and a silver necklace with a heart. All small pieces, but 6 goodies in 5 hours is a good thing and with the price of gold and silver going up it’s even better.
The necklace is an unusual design. It has an adjustment ball and 2 extra dangling chains. It has a heart with CZs.
One of the earrings is white gold. It is also an unusual design. It has a folded plate that holds the stone without the usual prongs. It is marked PATENT PEND. Also the stone is a diamond and measures at a quarter carat.
The problem with finding all this tiny gold and silver is you also have to find all the tiny pieces of foil and other junk so covering an area takes a long time. You can see how small some of the junky stuff is. All the bigger stuff was cleaned out earlier in warmer weather by myself and others.
DAY 2
I had good luck at the end of the old K to 12 field that has recently been mowed so I decided to see if my luck would hold. It got very cold overnight and we had some snow and freezing rain, but the ground hasn’t had a chance to freeze so I did some swingin. When I got there it was 23 and windy with 30 to 40 MPH gusts so mittens on and coats zipped up tight. It was al least better than home, 15 degrees with 2 inches of snow just as windy.
I could only manage 4 hours in the icebox swingin the CZ21. I managed to find 65 coins with a face value of $5.84, a brass whatzit, an aluminum tag, 2 wheaties, a Canadian penny, a drawer pull, 2 toy cars, a crock decoration, a small D buckle, a button, a key, the front to a brass SARGENT lock, while aluminum cans, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps, foil, 13 tabs and 1 pencil end.
The aluminum tag is part of an old C&P telephone pole tag. I didn’t find the rest of it.
The brass whatzit has 2 recessed screw holes and has a step design. Not sure what it was used for. The piece of a drawer pull is ornate and looks Victorian in style. I found one just like it for sale on line. My guess would be 1920s. It has a number 4047 stamped on the underside.
DAY 3
I have detected 3 different middle schools. School B had lots of civil war bullets and interesting items. I told the principal that the school could have the historic items when I was done. I finished several months ago and got the boxes ready for the school. Today I delivered them to the new principal. The original principal was recently transfer to another school (it happens all the time). Here are pictures of the boxes with the school name blocked out. The new principal was happy and asked me to come back on a teacher work day to make a presentation to the staff about the finds. I also visited the original principal and presented her with a Ryker box of civil war bullets as a thank you for letting me detect.
NOTE: It’s a small world after all. The original principal was on my staff when I was assistant principal of another middle school and the current principal had me as a teacher when he was in the third grade.
The first box has a variety of civil war bullets including pulled and wormed bullets as well as carved ones.
The second box has civil war buttons, knap sack hooks, finials, a bayonet scabbard tip and an officers belt plate. Most of these are the first and only ones I have ever found. (I detect because I like to do it. Accumulating a large pile of stuff is not my goal anymore so giving these items to someone who might really appreciate them is no problem and actually feels good.
The third box has a wide variety of interesting household items from the old farm that was here.
The fourth box contains coins, tokens and chits. The CUMBERLAND TRANSIT LINE token GOOD FOR ONE SCHOOL FARE is something you would expect to find at a school. The B&O TIE PLANT MEAL chits are something I have never seen before. I have not been able to get any information on them and they may be the only ones that have survived. The school got 2 of them. I have 3 more I am offering to the B&O Railroad museum.
So I did my Boy Scout good deed for the day.
No NON DETECTOR FINDS this week and it was short because the weather stopped me. I went out trying to do some swingin, but when I got there the ground was like stone. I thought there had been enough warmth to keep the ground from freezing, but I got that one wrong. Next week we will have some days in the teens and overnight temps close to zero so it may be a while before I get out again.
Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
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