digger460
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- Location
- Southeast Grundy, Illinois
- Detector(s) used
- EQ600, EQ800 and a Carrot
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- Other
Good morning all,
End of last year, I decided to take up metal detecting as a hobby, and have really enjoyed it. I was lucky enough to get permission to hunt an old homestead from the late 1800's. It's been quite an adventure, and I call it my classroom to learn my detector. I can go there whenever I want to, and it's somewhere around 5 acre's in total. I've got roughly 100 to 120 hrs. into it, and it's no where near hunted out. It's one of those places that you can't take 2 steps without getting a signal.
When I first got permission, I was really excited to think that, boy I'm going to find some old coins, jewelry, and relics on this property. I've been humbled! But it's my own fault. Some of you guy's talk about doing the grid technique, and I can certainly understand why. I've gone over area's that I had recently gone over from different directions, and found things that I had missed before, so I've learned that that's pretty darn important to stop thinking that I can cover the whole area in a day and find every treasure in the ground
. Although I've found some relics of the time, which I enjoy as much as finding coins, jewelry etc., I'm really surprised that I have not found more coins. The total on the coins, is about a dollar of clad, and one lonely 1920 wheat. But the wheat was found where the old driveway is, which is covered by grass now, and the coin was 6 to 8 inches deep in some of the hardest packed roadmix that you can imagine. From older satellite images, I can see where the graveled area's for the farm was, and it is probably a quarter the area of the property, so my thinking is, it's just going to take a lot of work to get to the good stuff. It's got to be there. And I know where the original house stood that burned down in the '70s, and I know where the hole is that they dug, and bulldozed it into the hole. So, just going to take time.
But for now, I'm going to give it a rest, and move back into town where I live. I have found 14 coins in my yard. 4 IHC's 1891,1903,1905,1906. 8 Wheat's '12,'19,'20,'20,'25,'30, '41,'51,'58. 1 Winged Liberty '38. 1 Rosie '46. Also have found a couple of store tokens from surrounding towns, so I know the history is there.
Hopefully, if it ever stops raining, I'll be hitting my GF's dad's property next. He said, "Oh, somebody has already done that once. He was here for almost 4 hrs., and he didn't find anything" You know what I'm thinking
Good place to practice gridding.....
Well anyway, here's the pictures of what I found at the farm. Some cool stuff. But I will be back, many, many, many time's in the future. Just a matter of time before I figure it out.
Thanks for looking, and maybe this will help some of my fellow newbie's out there. "Don't give up, just figure it out"
GL & HH
End of last year, I decided to take up metal detecting as a hobby, and have really enjoyed it. I was lucky enough to get permission to hunt an old homestead from the late 1800's. It's been quite an adventure, and I call it my classroom to learn my detector. I can go there whenever I want to, and it's somewhere around 5 acre's in total. I've got roughly 100 to 120 hrs. into it, and it's no where near hunted out. It's one of those places that you can't take 2 steps without getting a signal.
When I first got permission, I was really excited to think that, boy I'm going to find some old coins, jewelry, and relics on this property. I've been humbled! But it's my own fault. Some of you guy's talk about doing the grid technique, and I can certainly understand why. I've gone over area's that I had recently gone over from different directions, and found things that I had missed before, so I've learned that that's pretty darn important to stop thinking that I can cover the whole area in a day and find every treasure in the ground
. Although I've found some relics of the time, which I enjoy as much as finding coins, jewelry etc., I'm really surprised that I have not found more coins. The total on the coins, is about a dollar of clad, and one lonely 1920 wheat. But the wheat was found where the old driveway is, which is covered by grass now, and the coin was 6 to 8 inches deep in some of the hardest packed roadmix that you can imagine. From older satellite images, I can see where the graveled area's for the farm was, and it is probably a quarter the area of the property, so my thinking is, it's just going to take a lot of work to get to the good stuff. It's got to be there. And I know where the original house stood that burned down in the '70s, and I know where the hole is that they dug, and bulldozed it into the hole. So, just going to take time.But for now, I'm going to give it a rest, and move back into town where I live. I have found 14 coins in my yard. 4 IHC's 1891,1903,1905,1906. 8 Wheat's '12,'19,'20,'20,'25,'30, '41,'51,'58. 1 Winged Liberty '38. 1 Rosie '46. Also have found a couple of store tokens from surrounding towns, so I know the history is there.
Hopefully, if it ever stops raining, I'll be hitting my GF's dad's property next. He said, "Oh, somebody has already done that once. He was here for almost 4 hrs., and he didn't find anything"
You know what I'm thinking Good place to practice gridding.....Well anyway, here's the pictures of what I found at the farm. Some cool stuff. But I will be back, many, many, many time's in the future. Just a matter of time before I figure it out.
Thanks for looking, and maybe this will help some of my fellow newbie's out there. "Don't give up, just figure it out"
GL & HH
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