IowaRelic
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- Joined
- Jul 29, 2018
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- Location
- Alabama from Iowa
- Detector(s) used
- Makro Multi Kruzer
Teknetics T2 SE
Teknetics Omega 8000 V4
Fisher Gold Bug Pro
Tesoro Vaquero
Tesoro Compadre
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Well I have been getting to know my new-to-me T2 SE the past couple weeks since the weather broke. I have had great experiences so far and am digging pounds less iron than with the vaquero. Today I hit my bosses yard during lunch. Yielded the first silver of 2019:
She wanted out on her 100th birthday. Was there 10 minutes.
This evening after leaving job number 2, I cracked onto a new permission I’ve been researching, and happen to know the owner of the field. I got permission and went for a hike. T2, a spade, and a shop jacket being my only tools. I walked the 1/8 mile or so to the area that was heavily wooded and had numerous buildings in the old aerials. (I also know this site was first built in 1836, was a stagecoach stop before the railroad, and was supposedly the first house on a foundation in the county) I immediately was able to locate piles of rubble, bricks, and stones all around the edge of the field and down into the drainage ditch of the field, indicating it was dozed to make farm ground many years ago, as confirmed by the 1970 aerial. Bare dirt. I worked up to the high area where I knew a house would be, didn’t take long and I was in the thick of pottery, China, stone, brick and god sized loads of iron. Let’s get to it. Target number 1 is a fork from 1890. Target 2, suspender clip piece or some type of buckle fragment, target 3, and nice little brass flat button that’s wiped. Seemed to have a “scene” at one time.
Then it got real good. A screaming 88 signal, and YEEAUUHH! First ever large cent. 1856.
Now, I did dig some jar lids, brass, spoons, bigger iron etc. but I scored another first, a 1912 v nickel!
I couldn’t be happier with a new, obviously virgin site! Good luck everyone!
She wanted out on her 100th birthday. Was there 10 minutes.
This evening after leaving job number 2, I cracked onto a new permission I’ve been researching, and happen to know the owner of the field. I got permission and went for a hike. T2, a spade, and a shop jacket being my only tools. I walked the 1/8 mile or so to the area that was heavily wooded and had numerous buildings in the old aerials. (I also know this site was first built in 1836, was a stagecoach stop before the railroad, and was supposedly the first house on a foundation in the county) I immediately was able to locate piles of rubble, bricks, and stones all around the edge of the field and down into the drainage ditch of the field, indicating it was dozed to make farm ground many years ago, as confirmed by the 1970 aerial. Bare dirt. I worked up to the high area where I knew a house would be, didn’t take long and I was in the thick of pottery, China, stone, brick and god sized loads of iron. Let’s get to it. Target number 1 is a fork from 1890. Target 2, suspender clip piece or some type of buckle fragment, target 3, and nice little brass flat button that’s wiped. Seemed to have a “scene” at one time.
Then it got real good. A screaming 88 signal, and YEEAUUHH! First ever large cent. 1856.
Now, I did dig some jar lids, brass, spoons, bigger iron etc. but I scored another first, a 1912 v nickel!
I couldn’t be happier with a new, obviously virgin site! Good luck everyone!
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