Little Red School House

[Alchemist]

Well, after countless visits to a pre-1900 decommissioned school house, I have finally finish the site. I came away with some goodie silver items, a few time pieces, a couple dud rings, about 20 wheat pennies (oldest 1910), some $17 in clad and (as expected) a few children's nick-knack items. There are a few items I can't identify (the sterling sheild, joker emblem, deco screw top, etc). Maybe you can? The pocket watch item was particularly cool to find, but it had no innards. Happy hunting all.

The School:


The catch:

 

[thrifty76now]

Wow, that school was certainly a great place to search.looks kike you have located a virgin site there.Nice sterling shield pin.

 

[g-olden years]

Congrats on your success following intensive detecting! The silver shield is one of the nicest & most intriguing items I've seen on t-net! Andi

 

[46Wheat]

That's a nice pile of goodies . You have some nice finds there , the thing that caught my eye was the little bling owl . He looks so bright and happy sitting there

 

[Captain Caveman]

Congratz! I love that type of location where you not only pull clad and silver, but also all kinds of nick nacks!

 

[Alchemist]

I must challenge this statement, period. No you have not!

I don't care if you detect there for years, you haven't finished the site.

I suggest on your return you walk your path perpendicular to your first searches, and then later pick spots to grid it out.

Another concern would be whether you used the Pioneer 202 on any parts of the grounds. It appears the 202 uses a concentric coil versus a DD. The impact of that is that the signal sent into the ground is cone shaped - the deeper you go, the smaller the signal. It would be extremely easy to miss targets at depth. A DD coil sends a full width signal into the ground regardless of depth - so you cover a heck of a lot more territory.

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Go back! Go back!

I was using my BH Platinum with the 11" DD coil. Yes, I could go back and run a perpendicular path to my previous searches, but I'd be digging nearly all iffy signals. In fact, I did just that prior to completing this go around, hitting certain areas twice that I felt needed it. Could I find more there? Perhaps...probably...IDK. I do appreciate your philosophy, though. Thank you.

 

[Alchemist]

Was that a permission sight? I've never gone there thinking it was private or at the time used a daycare. Again great work.....

Yes, indeed, permission granted. The owner is next door. Business man of some sort. I don't dig without minding my limits and permissions...good for the cause, you know

Hope to see you around. I now need to make another fresh post!

 

[CoilFisher]

Well, after countless visits to a pre-1900 decommissioned school house, I have finally finish the site. I came away with some goodie silver items, a few time pieces, a couple dud rings, about 20 wheat pennies

Those are great finds.
I love that sterling shield!
Cannot imagine how all that clad gets on all these old schoolhouse properties?

 

[timelord]

Yes, indeed, permission granted. The owner is next door. Business man of some sort. I don't dig without minding my limits and permissions...good for the cause, you know

Hope to see you around. I now need to make another fresh post!

Same goes for me, that's why good places are getting rare in our town. Keep up the posts like seeing your success.....