Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

[Gooddog]

Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

After doing some tests I have found that my VLF Treasure Detector doesn't pick up coins that are more than 6" deep, maybe this is why I have found only clad . Should I move up to a better detector now or is there anything to be found out there at less than 6" other than the junk I have been digging?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, I really enjoy my new found hobby, but need to know if I am waisting my time, thanks.

 

[PrizmIV]

Re: Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

I foun a 1913 D Type Two Buffalo Nickle at 4-5in

 

[Darren in NC]

Re: Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

I got a hit between two big roots of this huge old big tree. The roots were exposed above the ground and went out a ways towards the water then went down into the sand...A rusty old anchor, lol. Someone must have lost it and it got washed up on shore or pushed up there by the ice and sat there for little old me to find.

Gooddog, do you think the tree is really old? Is it an oak or evergreen? I doubt seriously that it was underwater at one time and a boat lost its anchor. Unless they're cypress, most trees don't live underwater. I guess there could have been a flood. But my point is that the anchor could have been buried there on purpose. As a marker. There could be more below (or a cache nearby that could be triangulated) that your md didn't pickup. It's a well known fact that pirates and others tied chains around trees and/or buried anchors as a marker for treasure. As a cache hunter, I'm always thinking big. You dig a lot of empty holes, but one day...

 

[Gooddog]

Re: Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

Oh.....my.....god. I never thought about the anchor being a marker. The tree is a huge, weatherbeaten pine (evergreen) tree, at least 4' across with the roots being at least 1' across each. Now I am excited to go back and take a look. The anchor is still between the roots, I could move it round, but I could not get it out from between the roots, so it had to of been there a very, very long time. Wish I had taken a picture of it.

Darn, I hope I can find that spot again, it was on a rather barren stretch of Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin, somewhere by Ashland.

 

[Darren in NC]

Re: Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

Evergreens grow quicker than hardwoods, so I'm not sure how old it would be - maybe ask someone with more knowledge about trees. Was the anchor and old style 1800s type? Do you know? Bronze? Iron? I hope you can find it again

 

[Gooddog]

Re: Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

Evergreens grow quicker than hardwoods, so I'm not sure how old it would be - maybe ask someone with more knowledge about trees. Was the anchor and old style 1800s type? Do you know? Bronze? Iron? I hope you can find it again

This is what the anchor looked like, only there was no paint and it looked thicker on the mushroom part of it.

 

[PrizmIV]

Re: Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

I dont know anything about amchors, but i thought the mushroom shaped ones are much newer design?!? Unless, they were carved stone?!?!

 

[Gooddog]

Re: Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

This is what the anchor looked like, only there was no paint (it was plain cast iron looking and very rusty) and it looked thicker on the mushroom part of it and the stem was thicker where it attaches to the mushroom and no flat part on the end where the hole it. The hole was just an iron ring.

 

[PrizmIV]

Re: Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

I would say that it is old but not that old

 

[skydiv]

Re: Is there anything good to be found at less than 6" ?

you were close to my old stomping grounds, I went to H.S. in bessemer mi. I don't get up there any more but I know many sites I will check out when I do get to go again. lots of old places