Ahab8
Gold Member
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2013
- Messages
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- Golden Thread
- 2
- Location
- Topsham, Maine
- 🥇 Banner finds
- 2
- Detector(s) used
- Teknetics T2 SE w/15' SEF Coil/ Minelab GPX 4500/2 Garrett Pro Pointers/3 Sets Killer B Headphones/ Koss Headphones/ Detekniy Wireless headphone Adapter
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I bought a GPX a month or so ago. I haven't used it a whole lot but have taken it out twice in the last few days. I bought it to hunt the sites thatI have hunted quiet with my T2 just to see if I was missing anything way down deep. I took it to a site that I hunted with my T2 with the 5", 11", and 15" coil. This is a very small area of finds and I hunted this spot until There was just no signals left except for a bit of iron. First good target was a very deep copper. Then I found a couple buttons. One of them was a tombac that was easily 16" and clear as can be. After I dug some massive craters I swung the T2 in them and pulled a button out of the iron. The GPX does not like iron....thats a fact!!!!
If anybody knows what the iron pick item is I would appreciate the id.
Ok now for todays hunt and the very tiny very unexpected finds. I took the GPX to a super early site and decided to hunt the salt water shore where I believe there was a stone wharf. This machine is incredible in the salt water shore. There was no modern targets at all at this spot. Unfortunately the tide drove me out and theres lots of long reeds on the higher areas so I couldn't detect there today. I will be returning for sure. I got a couple of the smallest keepers Ive ever dug in my life. This machine will find it if its there. No matter how small. Ive never found gold of any sort detecting. Today I found my first piece and it happens to be a tiny flake of gold. Pretty cool for the first piece.
Now for the other tiny little target. I'm hoping this may be a trade bead. This spot had lots of native and colonist interaction in the 1600s. It is metal as I found it and pinpointed it as well....but I have no idea what its made of. Any thoughts or opinions are welcome guys
The rest of the finds
Lead fishing weight
?
If anybody knows what the iron pick item is I would appreciate the id.
Ok now for todays hunt and the very tiny very unexpected finds. I took the GPX to a super early site and decided to hunt the salt water shore where I believe there was a stone wharf. This machine is incredible in the salt water shore. There was no modern targets at all at this spot. Unfortunately the tide drove me out and theres lots of long reeds on the higher areas so I couldn't detect there today. I will be returning for sure. I got a couple of the smallest keepers Ive ever dug in my life. This machine will find it if its there. No matter how small. Ive never found gold of any sort detecting. Today I found my first piece and it happens to be a tiny flake of gold. Pretty cool for the first piece.
Now for the other tiny little target. I'm hoping this may be a trade bead. This spot had lots of native and colonist interaction in the 1600s. It is metal as I found it and pinpointed it as well....but I have no idea what its made of. Any thoughts or opinions are welcome guys
The rest of the finds
Lead fishing weight
?
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