maggiemacpoe
Tenderfoot
Hi Everybody,
Sorry if this is a duplicate post.
I haven't been on in a LONG time. This page to post a new topic is totally different than than it was the last time I used it. I am not computer literate and was afraid to press the submit button until I had my daughter save the text for me. After I did press submit it asked me for my login name and password. After I entered them the screen went back to the post a new topic page but my post was gone. I checked the metal detecting forum but my post wasn't there so I had to get my daughter to retrieve it from wherever she saved it and move it here for me. It's a good thing I had her save it because the way I type it took me about two hours to write it. It would have been a real pain to have to do it all over again. I would much rather be out treasure hunting for the two hours instead!
I have been detecting for about 15 years and live in a PRIME treasure hunting location. The first settlers arrived here in the 1600's, my oldest
find so far, with a legible date, is a 1/2 pence lead cloth seal dated 1688.
It was in a friend's corn field, a two minute walk from my house.
Last year another friend invited me to detect on his 150+ acre property. The problem I need help with is where to detect first. This gentleman is in his 70's and is VERY interested in seeing what is in the ground. He is hard of hearing so is not really interested in using one of my detectors, preferring instead to do the digging. The first house was built on his land in the 1630's across from an island with a trading post on it. There were also two ferry crossings, and a garrison on his property as well as a portion of the King's Highway. There are at least 6 cellar holes dating back to the late 1700's and early 1800's that he is aware of. There is also an old apple orchard, and part of the land was farmed at one time but not for over many years.
Quite a few people have asked for his permission over the years to bottle hunt or metal detect on his land but have been turned down. I am not allowed to detect on the property without my friend right next to me. You can see from the above description that it is a treasure hunter's dream spot. Then throw in the fact that pirates were known to have frequented the area, and also that a cache of coins was found in the area many years ago.
I did some research this past winter but I still have no clue as to the location of that first house, the ferry crossings, garrison, farm fields, or the King's Highway, although each are mentioned in many of the books I have read.
My friend wanted to start with a couple of the cellar holes since he knows where they are. In the five times went out we found nothing more than a bunch of rusting cans, nails, barbed wire and the remnants of old farm tools. He was very excited and took everything back to his house to show his wife. I was pretty disappointed because in the thousands of times I have detected in the farm fields near my house I have NEVER come home without finding at least one coin prior to 1900. I can't walk two feet over there without finding something and the digging is SOOOO easy.
Although my friend was excited by our meger findings, his energy waned
after about an hour each time we went out. I am the type of person that no matter how tired I am, I am not leaving until I find at least one coin, bullet, button, toy etc. It is the same when I look for sea glass, I don't leave until I find a blue piece. Bottle hunting, I have to find one in perfect condition even if I have to stay long enough to turn on my flash lights.
Unfortunately, as I said, I am only allowed to detect while my friend is with me so it is agonizing to have to pack up and go after a hour or so.
I am hoping that once I find the right spot, and we find the first coin, my friend will want to keep going even if it means bringing a folding chair so he can sit and watch me when he gets tired.
I would appreciate any advice you can offer on how I can determine where the old house, garrison, ferry crossings and kings Highway were located. In which order do you think I should try to find and detect them? Until I do, where on my friends property do you think I should detect for enough coins to keep him motivated. He called last week to say that he just sharpened his shovel and is ready to go.
Sincerely, Maggie Macpoe
Sorry if this is a duplicate post.
I haven't been on in a LONG time. This page to post a new topic is totally different than than it was the last time I used it. I am not computer literate and was afraid to press the submit button until I had my daughter save the text for me. After I did press submit it asked me for my login name and password. After I entered them the screen went back to the post a new topic page but my post was gone. I checked the metal detecting forum but my post wasn't there so I had to get my daughter to retrieve it from wherever she saved it and move it here for me. It's a good thing I had her save it because the way I type it took me about two hours to write it. It would have been a real pain to have to do it all over again. I would much rather be out treasure hunting for the two hours instead!
I have been detecting for about 15 years and live in a PRIME treasure hunting location. The first settlers arrived here in the 1600's, my oldest
find so far, with a legible date, is a 1/2 pence lead cloth seal dated 1688.
It was in a friend's corn field, a two minute walk from my house.
Last year another friend invited me to detect on his 150+ acre property. The problem I need help with is where to detect first. This gentleman is in his 70's and is VERY interested in seeing what is in the ground. He is hard of hearing so is not really interested in using one of my detectors, preferring instead to do the digging. The first house was built on his land in the 1630's across from an island with a trading post on it. There were also two ferry crossings, and a garrison on his property as well as a portion of the King's Highway. There are at least 6 cellar holes dating back to the late 1700's and early 1800's that he is aware of. There is also an old apple orchard, and part of the land was farmed at one time but not for over many years.
Quite a few people have asked for his permission over the years to bottle hunt or metal detect on his land but have been turned down. I am not allowed to detect on the property without my friend right next to me. You can see from the above description that it is a treasure hunter's dream spot. Then throw in the fact that pirates were known to have frequented the area, and also that a cache of coins was found in the area many years ago.
I did some research this past winter but I still have no clue as to the location of that first house, the ferry crossings, garrison, farm fields, or the King's Highway, although each are mentioned in many of the books I have read.
My friend wanted to start with a couple of the cellar holes since he knows where they are. In the five times went out we found nothing more than a bunch of rusting cans, nails, barbed wire and the remnants of old farm tools. He was very excited and took everything back to his house to show his wife. I was pretty disappointed because in the thousands of times I have detected in the farm fields near my house I have NEVER come home without finding at least one coin prior to 1900. I can't walk two feet over there without finding something and the digging is SOOOO easy.
Although my friend was excited by our meger findings, his energy waned
after about an hour each time we went out. I am the type of person that no matter how tired I am, I am not leaving until I find at least one coin, bullet, button, toy etc. It is the same when I look for sea glass, I don't leave until I find a blue piece. Bottle hunting, I have to find one in perfect condition even if I have to stay long enough to turn on my flash lights.
Unfortunately, as I said, I am only allowed to detect while my friend is with me so it is agonizing to have to pack up and go after a hour or so.
I am hoping that once I find the right spot, and we find the first coin, my friend will want to keep going even if it means bringing a folding chair so he can sit and watch me when he gets tired.
I would appreciate any advice you can offer on how I can determine where the old house, garrison, ferry crossings and kings Highway were located. In which order do you think I should try to find and detect them? Until I do, where on my friends property do you think I should detect for enough coins to keep him motivated. He called last week to say that he just sharpened his shovel and is ready to go.
Sincerely, Maggie Macpoe
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