Ghost garden found

[jsandin]

Spent a couple hours looking in a yard-sized area at the edge of a park, loaded with rusty nail signals. I figured a house used to be there, worked my way into the woods, and found lots of flowers and ivy planted. Dead giveaway was a tomato cage rusting in the underbrush. Found a pair of pruning shears buried in about 6" of the thickest clay I've ever seen. Not much else. I was actually able to use the shears to cut my way into the brush and find a tube of raccoon-chewed lip gloss, part of a bicycle brake (I think) and an eyelet from a sneaker....confirmation that this detector will find any tiny piece of metal that's there.

Then there's the pellet-looking thing. You tell me. A magnet picks it up, but just barely. It doesn't look like an air gun pellet, although it's about .22 caliber.

 

[DrGrip]

The "brake part" is actually a door stop that is made to fit on one of the hinge pins.

Here's a link to a new tube of the lip shine... http://www.bigelowchemists.com/product_info.php/cPath/356_357/products_id/4122

I'll bet you'll find more out there one future hunts if you found all of this on the first try.

Grip

 

[Blacksheep]

The last pic looks like a cable ferrule end.

(Like you might see on bike brake cable)

 

[jsandin]

I think you guys are right. I've seen examples of both of those mystery items before, but couldn't place them. The doorstop is missing its rubber cap.

I'm going back, but with extra bug repellent next time.

 

[allen]

looks like that site may hold lots of coins.

 

[STH69]

Interesting digs

 

[NAMKROW1]

Spent a couple hours looking in a yard-sized area at the edge of a park, loaded with rusty nail signals. I figured a house used to be there, worked my way into the woods, and found lots of flowers and ivy planted. Dead giveaway was a tomato cage rusting in the underbrush. Found a pair of pruning shears buried in about 6" of the thickest clay I've ever seen. Not much else. I was actually able to use the shears to cut my way into the brush and find a tube of raccoon-chewed lip gloss, part of a bicycle brake (I think) and an eyelet from a sneaker....confirmation that this detector will find any tiny piece of metal that's there.

Then there's the pellet-looking thing. You tell me. A magnet picks it up, but just barely. It doesn't look like an air gun pellet, although it's about .22 caliber.

THAT LIL' BLACK 'PELLET' DEAL IS ONE HALF OF THE RUBBER BUMPER ON THE DOOR STOP

 

[jsandin]

THAT LIL' BLACK 'PELLET' DEAL IS ONE HALF OF THE RUBBER BUMPER ON THE DOOR STOP

That settles it. I'm definitely going back for the other half.

PS to the story: The next day I found yet ANOTHER pair of pruning shears in the middle of an intersection, pro quality, complete with leather holster, which I cut down to fit my Lesche knife.