Love it when a plan comes together.

[WHADIFIND]

I've been practicing my research skills because they have been sorely out of use for many years.
Over the last week or so I've been going over maps and comparing things. One thing I found was on
one of the ball fields I go to from time to time. You know the place. It's just down the street, been hit for many, many years. The school dates to around the 20's but it was a farm field before that for, who knows how long? Yet, it still produces. Seemed like a good place to practice.

So what was there to research? Well, I noticed something on the maps that appears to have gone unnoticed before. At least, judging by the finds, it wasn't. I'd observed some fellow detectorists at work here on a couple occasions. They all seemed to follow the normal patterns. Conforming their hunts to the shapes of the fields. Spectator areas, baselines, infield, outfield, even a bit of the foul territory. The trouble is, that one of the fields wasn't always where it is now.

Oh it was pretty close but on one map I saw that orientation was slightly different. Home plate was where 2nd base was and vice-versa. That meant that the small stand of fairly new trees behind the current home plate area, used to be the outfield!

So, off I went today to prove my theory.

Here are the results:



Not a stellar start but shows a LOT of promise!



Eyeball find, not metal.




The nickels run from 1948 to modern.




Whole wheat toast section, have to clean a bit but they all seem to be from around the 30's-40's.






Really strange to find these stone pieces. They both have
a very small strip of metal around the edge and that's why I
was able to detect them. The one on the left, I'm not even sure about the blue material.



I'm not sure, but I think I see 1924.

Anyway, this is just the tip of an unexplored iceberg. Whatcha think? Maybe?

Thanks for peeking!

HH!

 

[dieselram94]

Sounds like you are on to something for sure. That many finds in the trees sure indicates lots of prior activity right there.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Looks like you got yourself a massive 20th century coin collection going on there! keep it up!

 

[Wldbil]

Great job on the research... And the finds, looks like you have a good place to hunt that the others have missed!

 

[John_Deere]

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that Buffalo nickel! Nice finds, congrats and HH!

 

[augusthog]

I would think theres lots of groovy finds to be had. Hit it hard and often.

 

[vpnavy]

Great finds WHADIFIND!

 

[SilverDreams]

Nice finds and excellent job on the research.

 

[WHADIFIND]

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that Buffalo nickel! Nice finds, congrats and HH!

Thanks!

I was a bit surprised too. At first I seemed to be finding a lot of nickels here. That's usually a sign of being hunted before but not digging the lower signals. But then, I got the 2 silver nickles and the buffalo. That plus the good wheat cent signals tells me that I was wrong. I don't think this particular stretch of ground has ever seen a coil. We'll see.

HH!