I left the woods today with a pocket full of Barbers!

prolab69 · Jun 23, 2009

Went up to an old school foundation today lost in the woods. This site gave me 2 early 1800s largies less than a week ago. Just a short walk thru the woods past the foundation is a field whare all the coins were found, after digging a bunch of plate steel for an hour I decided to head back to the car when I got a good signal. these were about 5 inches away from each other about 6-7 inches down (just the barbers, not the wheats)
dug out one dime and still had a strong signal so i just went to town with my shovel and dug a crator, piled a heap of dirt in a pile and scanned it, :headbang:

YES! 2 more Barbers came out. I was going through Barber withdrawl before i found these so yes the happy dance soon followed. After about another hour I had some early wheats, 1911, 1917, and a 1910. I want to go back sometime and dig up the 2 privys behind the school foundation also, should find some nice ink wells in there.
heres the foundation in the first pic, and one of the privys in the 2nd.

enjoy the pics
Pro-

Merf · Jun 23, 2009

Congrats on that good lookin silver :thumbsup:

zztop357 · Jun 23, 2009

WOW!!! Those are great coins. Good luck on your next trip there!!! :thumbsup:

HH, zztop

terryo · Jun 23, 2009

OUTSTANDING!
I"ll wager you were doing the HAPPY DANCE ! I would love to come up on an old site like that! Have you done any research on the age of the school?Are there any other old homes nearby?
Excellent work! :icon_thumleft:

fortbball9 · Jun 23, 2009

Awesome coins,Congrats on a very successful hunt :thumbsup:

fortbball9

mlayers · Jun 23, 2009

Those are some nice looking barbers.....Matt

artzstuff1 · Jun 23, 2009

Awsome lookin site there,,, great finds ,,, I bet there is alot more goodies there,,,!!!!!!!,,,,thanks for sharin,,,,

arthur

prolab69 · Jun 23, 2009

terryo said:
OUTSTANDING!
I"ll wager you were doing the HAPPY DANCE ! I would love to come up on an old site like that! Have you done any research on the age of the school?Are there any other old homes nearby?
Excellent work!

Ahh, actually yeah. If you look over some of my other posts from this year youll see some pictures of some very nice finds and many other old foundations. This is my 40-foundation site. Early settlers from aprox 180? something. It was a whole community that picked up and left during the depression, mostly because of ground nutrience depletion and battles with other towns trying to get phone and elect. services up in the woods to supply them with those services. I hate going up there because you pretty much need a HumV. or Bryces new 4wheeler, lol.... in other words, my muffler is shot from bottoming out....but... its whare all the good stuff is. State Troopers patrol up there looking for dope harvesters also, but I know em all, and they let me do my thing even tho its state land. Its the best place I know for large cents. my earliest coin up there was an 1806 half cent with great detail.
thanks for the interest and reply,
Pro-

Bob S · Jun 23, 2009

Nice Finds WTG

Roger Mn. · Jun 24, 2009

Nice Barbers and a great place to detect. :thumbsup:

prolab69 · Jun 24, 2009

Bull59 said:
I was wondering about hunting on state lands in the woods. Is it legal or not ? I've heard it isn't, yet I know of at least one guy who even had a T.V. show where he hunted on state land in the woods here in N.Y.

It depends on the land, we have another section of state land that has just as many foundations. but its patroled by forest rangers. They will ticket you if your caught, they consider those foundations to be historical sites.

Ed-NH · Jun 24, 2009

Congrats on the silver!!

Ronzie · Jun 24, 2009

Nice going. :icon_thumleft:

garthbfan169 · Jun 24, 2009

WTG prolab Awesome finds and in great condition. Not sure but from everything I have read most state game lands you just have to check in at the ranger station. I am sure it changes from state to state and park to park!! Great finds again WTG :thumbsup:

prolab69 · Jun 24, 2009

garthbfan169 said:
WTG prolab Awesome finds and in great condition. Not sure but from everything I have read most state game lands you just have to check in at the ranger station. I am sure it changes from state to state and park to park!! Great finds again WTG

The other section of state land is the forest preserve, they have historical markers and and info about the settlers from each foundation, I checked with the ranger station and they stated that its illegal to remove items from a historical site. Cornell University does a lot of excavations up there, mapping out locations and privy digs.

Discrimination Dave · Jun 24, 2009

Hey Prolab69,
Great finds of course, must of been fun.
But I really want to thank you for your field pics.
That old foundation looks so so great.

I will look up your other foundation pics now,

Get up there again and show us more, because we all know it is there.
Good Work!
It's hard work.
Go get 'em!
dave