How deep is the Good Nectar?

[TheCaribbeanDigger]

Nectar! Ok I get it! Like I said before, this is an old thread I started back when I was just starting! But had a good laugh with all the memes though!!!

 

[Pointman]

Nectar?

Those are found in flowers. I am not a botanist or master gardener so I don't care about nectar, lol.

Anyway, go to Tom Dankowski's forum and look at one of his Fisher Intelligence reports. It talks about the sinking rates of coins. It is good information. Tom will also read the soil conditions at a site before he digs to determine where to hunt. I started to do this and it is a lot of truth to what he is talking about. I have found 1800s coins (Indian Head pennies and silver dimes) 1" down in dry/rocky soil and clad 8 inches down in soft soil. I feel that it is about as important to consider the looseness or how wet the ground is, to where coins would be dropped (walkways, clothelines, etc.). I have been able to find coins that others couldn't by simply tweaking my settings and my brain to listen to the deeper "hidden" sounds.

 

[TheCaribbeanDigger]

Wow awesome info there! Thanx for the help! Generally speaking, good targets in most places were I live are going to be pretty deep. Here the soil gets a couple of inches of rain per year. Lots of water, lots of vegetation, lots of everything basically.

 

[braveheart1954]

THIS I JUST WROTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE BUT PERTAINS TO YOU MAYBE. DO ARTIFACTS AND COINS SINK Charles Darwin did extensive research on why artifacts are found at different depths.. its because of earth worms!!! They bring the dirt they eat to the surface and when their burrows cave in the object sinks more and more as they burrow under objects. The most and object can sink is like in a very soft dirt area where there are lots of deep digging crawlers crawlers...usually where the rain falls a lot and the grass is mowed and the mulch becomes food for more worms like in a foot ball stadium. The coins will sink in an area like this 2.3" per decade (10 years)....adjust this 2.3 to your diff. digging conditions. A coin will sink less in areas of sandy soil and dryer where there are not so many earth worms. Also certain trees are not preferable to worms like Adler and Pines..coins will not sink as much. ...leave build up thru the years will cover objects also but only about 1" per decade from regular decaying causes. Archeologists use his findings today to uncover artifacts! Where you are hunting looks good for worms ..so say if it's not the ideal area for deep digging crawlers... say only 2" fer decade..coins lost around that 1898 farm house would be roughly 11 decades which would mean the coins dropped there in 1898 would be approximately 22" deep!!! So I guess I am saying dig the deepest signals you can. USE THIS METHOD IN OLD HUNTED OUT PARKS AND OTHER SIMILAR PLACES! Read Darwin's worm theory..very interesting. I can't wait not to try it! No more ice cream scoops! LOL John 6-26-15

 

[coinman123]

In response to theory that a coin goes 2.3" deeper each decade...
I'm not sure that a coin dropped 300 years ago would be 6 feet deep, I have found a couple coins that old and they are never more than around 6 inches deep. I'm guessing there is a limit to how deep they go, I doubt that the roman coins found by metal detectorists in Europe are 90 feet deep, they are probably not too deep. I think many factors have to do with depth, my favorite theory is that it has to do with leaves, grass, and other organic matter decomposing over an object and creating more dirt that buries an object. I'm guessing that it is correct that at first an object may go down 2.3" or so a decade do to worms but only to an extent. Worms really only stay at the 1"-12" range so that may contribute. Like I said before, I have found colonial artifacts just under the leaves and modern stuff quite deep. Object depth is very confusing to me...


It is quite clear that the only logical choice though is aliens...

 

[CincinnatiKid]

Yup.
Early 1800's coinage is found here 5"-9".
2.3" per decade only works with swamp math.
GL
Peace ✌

 

[Higgy]

This thread reminds me of the thread about battery rate-of-drain. I'm like...

 

[Argentium]

I've heard two or three main theories in the decade or so that I have been detecting . The sinking theory , the deposition theory ,
and the critters theory . If I could pick only one theory, I favor the deposition theory - I think the truth lies with some of all three
- something like this : In some locations coins sink a bit while also experiencing deposition . In other areas coins get dropped and
hardly sink at all and don't get covered by much either . Finally , critters interact randomly with the occasional dropped artifact causing
it to rise (think moles , ground hogs) and the lowly worm may be responsible for some sinking . I don't have time now to go into
the frost heave theory or the myriad ways humans interact with a dropped artifact . Interesting to revisit this well worn topic !