Lets list what you think are the most over looked hunting places .......

[baspinall]

I'll start with homes surrounding that "Great" old colonial place your eyeballing. In many circumstances those surrounding homes where also part of the original property that have been divided up through the years.


Brian

 

[ModernMiner]

I'll start with homes surrounding that "Great" old colonial place your eyeballing. In many circumstances those surrounding homes where also part of the original property that have been divided up through the years.


Brian

So true Brian. When I dug my "NC" buckle and "CSN" Civil War button they were in the yard of an early 1900's house next door to the original 1847 house. The 1900's house was built for the daughter.
-MM-

 

[Frankn]

That sounds good, but what about the homes where the rich use to live in the summer months to avoid city heat before conditioning? Some of these homes are well over 100 years old. I have found gold coins and valuable gem laden rings at these locations. I have also found historical items at these locations. Example, a ruby/gold ring and a 200 year old ax head. Frank...

 

[huntsman53]

Right of Ways of major roads or highways that were built right through known Battlefields or what were once early farms, Plantations or even small 1700's or 1800's towns. Most folks either think that these spots have been searched, are too dangerous to search due to the traffic or is totally off-limits!


Frank

 

[releventchair]

Depends what you are hunting.
Some homes were sold with contents as moving was a hassle. An uncle at one time bought and sold them.Some old carriage dumps had most of a household in them. Places the wagon could be parked uphill and contents pushed out.
For coins ,the long declining payphone locations.

 

[baspinall]

Ha love the old pay phone location one! I guess I never hunted the road right of ways because I assumed the ground was moved around or ....... not sure why.

 

[relicmeister]

I like hitting the woods anywhere alongside old roads, especially if they look like they have not been too heavily modernized. They are often barren, or littered with road trash, but will often yield a gem. I've found old coach stops and homesites just off such roads.

 

[OZARKS]

For coins ,the long declining payphone locations.

Yep! May 2012 I wrote an article about that very thing!

Silver Coins can be Found in Forgotten Places | Ozarks Metal Detecting Blog

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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old-town urban demolition tear-out sites. I am often amazed, when I get on a good one, that I'm the only one hunting it. Even though I might know for a fact that there's multiple hobbyists in whatever town it is. I guess they don't know that they need to "hop on it while the pickens are good" (because sometimes the window of opportunity before fill-dirt layer is only a single night). Or because they're skittish and don't want to (gasp) step over an orange ribbon, etc.... after the workers have cut out at 5pm, etc....

 

[creskol]

A lot of old State Highway Administration (30's, 40's, 50's) maps show where roadside picnic areas once were .. I love hunting those areas as there are always some nice coins and rings hiding among the bottle tops and pull tabs.

 

[Argentium]

I noticed that in Santa Fe , NM. near down town - there are streets where the parking meters are placed in dirt rather than concrete - since
Santa Fe gets some snow in the winter , the coins that are dropped as people feed the meter - just pile up ! There were so many coins
under some of these , that my detector sounded like a popcorn popper going off !!

 

[huntsman53]

Although I know that there are some folks that dive and metal detect in rivers and lakes, I believe that some of these as well as creeks and streams are overlooked and not searched. Shallows, sand or rock bars and even at the bottom of waterfalls downstream of old towns, old homes and old businesses (such as old General Stores), Historic sites and Battlefields that sit or sat along waterways that have flooded in the past or still flood, are ideal locations but often overlooked!


Frank

 

[HutSiteDigger]

I notice lot of like turn of the century house sites/early 1900s don't get hunted much, there are plenty of abandon ones in the Northern Neck of Virginia i hunt quite often and most have never been touched with a MD at least not very well hunted.. Also - lot of property that didn't have military activity tends to be less hunted, most MDers around here at least want to only hunt Civil War sites..

 

[Plumbata]

I agree on the telephone booth spots. When my dad was a teenager in the mid 70s they tore out the booth down his street. He didn't have a detector, but by just eyeballing and scratching around he found over 3 bucks in silver.

 

[m bryan]

Old timers could probally tell us where dice games and cock fights took place...usually away from town...also I just thought of a place where there was an old washateria (spelling)in the fifties....I remember it took two dimes to wash the clothes...

 

[cactusrat]

Local (city) bus stops. People are pulling out coins to pay the bus fair.

 

[roaddust66]

This is a little off topic.. but if you are young and skinny....most of you aren't ! But if you go to an old church yard...look and see if the church building had been expanded and enlarged. If it has , look at the building and see if there is a craw space door. crawl under the building and detect. I noticed a church yard i was hunting once and noticed they had added on to the front of the building. I crawled under the new part and low and behold ....there was the original steps going into the church ! OMG !!!! i RECOVERED HAND FULLS OF OLD COINS ! It got dark and I never went back. I'm saving it for when i get skinny someday.

 

[Gold Maven]

I saw on old pic of a weekly horse auction from the late 1800's in a small neighboring town. A big crowd of men standing around the auctioneer at the back of a building.....found the building, mostly parking lot, but from a small strip of grass I found a pile of indian head pennies.

 

[BC1969]

One of my favorites is newspaper boxes that are sitting on grass next to sidewalks, I just move them a few feet search the spot and move em back.
I know of a lot of paper boxes that have been sitting in the same spot for decades, also good is when the snow melts around them usually find a bunch of change then too, but for the most overlooked, any roads that have grass next to them without curbs has always yielded me tons of finds, jewelry coins phones you name it, the rug rats love to throw stuff out windows, bring a trash bag or 10 pick all the trash up, highway guys will look the other way since you are making their job easier.

Mike

 

[dusty1530]

I really enjoyed this thread keep it up you're giving me some good ideas