It has been a very slow few months for me. I haven't found anything really worth posting and I also haven't been hunting as much. It just seems that good places have not been really yielding much. Between March and the end of July I barely found enough to make it a typical month for me, so I was very surprised to go back over some old areas and do as well as I had. I went out for a total of 5 hours Saturday and Sunday and these are my finds.
The areas that I am hunting are where some houses have been torn down to make way for a parking lot. They started earlier in the year and just now are starting to really level and pack gravel. I haven't found more than a silver ring, about 8 wheat cents, an old rail road lock and silver belt buckle. I say not much because this area had about 7 houses and I would estimate that it is between 3-5 acres of land.
I have a love/hate relationship with my Deus. I sent my Minelab in for service which has forced me to use the Deus. I guess you can say that I am really starting to like this machine.
Time is of the essence, because I feel that they want to complete before school starts back. I worked hard looking for the remnants of the top soil in the piles and scattered about. A lot of the finds were on top of the ground. We had storms tonight so I feel that there may be more worked up to the surface.
I worked on the outskirts and into a lot that was cleared and this is where I found all these tokens. 11 are the same and one was a Washington State tax token:
Here is where it gets really interesting:
Marbles were scattered all about. God only knows how many more are still there. I found 8 earlier in the year at one spot. I also found a Federal General Service Button (first for me) and a 1893 Indian Head cent. I am unsure what the other two brass items are in the lower part of the picture. The oval shaped item is probably a broach of some sort because there is a broken pin attached. I also found the boy scout rank, dated 1911.
I also found 4 more Wheat cents. Dates are typical. One looks like it was placed on a railroad track and squashed. Another first for me.
The areas that I am hunting are where some houses have been torn down to make way for a parking lot. They started earlier in the year and just now are starting to really level and pack gravel. I haven't found more than a silver ring, about 8 wheat cents, an old rail road lock and silver belt buckle. I say not much because this area had about 7 houses and I would estimate that it is between 3-5 acres of land.
I have a love/hate relationship with my Deus. I sent my Minelab in for service which has forced me to use the Deus. I guess you can say that I am really starting to like this machine.
Time is of the essence, because I feel that they want to complete before school starts back. I worked hard looking for the remnants of the top soil in the piles and scattered about. A lot of the finds were on top of the ground. We had storms tonight so I feel that there may be more worked up to the surface.
I worked on the outskirts and into a lot that was cleared and this is where I found all these tokens. 11 are the same and one was a Washington State tax token:
Here is where it gets really interesting:
Marbles were scattered all about. God only knows how many more are still there. I found 8 earlier in the year at one spot. I also found a Federal General Service Button (first for me) and a 1893 Indian Head cent. I am unsure what the other two brass items are in the lower part of the picture. The oval shaped item is probably a broach of some sort because there is a broken pin attached. I also found the boy scout rank, dated 1911.
I also found 4 more Wheat cents. Dates are typical. One looks like it was placed on a railroad track and squashed. Another first for me.
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