Garrett424
Silver Member
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2014
- Messages
- 3,164
- Reaction score
- 2,284
- Golden Thread
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- Location
- Granite, Maryland
- Detector(s) used
- Teknetics Omega 8000
Teknetics Delta 4000,
Deteknix XPointer,
Fiskar's Big Grip Digger & my old Army Trench shovel for the tough jobs
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I wasn't gonna' hunt at all after work today but there was maybe 1/2 hour of daylight left and I happened to be close to a spot where I once dug up and old IH; so I figured, what the heck??
Anyway, this is a party spot and probably THE trashiest spot I've hunted so far. I really didn't expect much in the very limited time I had.
I dug some trash and soon got a solid signal in the mid 50's so of course, I dug it thinking it just may be a little more gold.
It wasn't. About 7-8 inches down I found this:
It's an old, bent and mangled child sized silver plate spoon with VERY little silver left on it.
It has some markings on the underside but I can't make it out at this point.
It's definitely nothing to write home about but it's still a first for me and may be pretty old.
The IH I dug at this spot was an 1886 and this was maybe 10 feet from where I dug it. Maybe if a spend 5 or 6 months cleaning out all of the trash I can find some treasures hiding in this mess. It's really bad but my gut tells me there's some potential there. Where there's at least one old coin there could be a few more.
It was wet, muddy, damp, foggy and chilly this evening after lots of steady rain today. It was also just about dark so I packed it in. A mediocre find is still better than no find or no hunt in my book.
Thanks for looking and HH.
Anyway, this is a party spot and probably THE trashiest spot I've hunted so far. I really didn't expect much in the very limited time I had.
I dug some trash and soon got a solid signal in the mid 50's so of course, I dug it thinking it just may be a little more gold.
It wasn't. About 7-8 inches down I found this:
It's an old, bent and mangled child sized silver plate spoon with VERY little silver left on it.
It has some markings on the underside but I can't make it out at this point.
It's definitely nothing to write home about but it's still a first for me and may be pretty old.
The IH I dug at this spot was an 1886 and this was maybe 10 feet from where I dug it. Maybe if a spend 5 or 6 months cleaning out all of the trash I can find some treasures hiding in this mess. It's really bad but my gut tells me there's some potential there. Where there's at least one old coin there could be a few more.
It was wet, muddy, damp, foggy and chilly this evening after lots of steady rain today. It was also just about dark so I packed it in. A mediocre find is still better than no find or no hunt in my book.
Thanks for looking and HH.
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