Pumpkin Patch strikes again! Hunt #44 at this site.

1491 · Oct 19, 2009

Gosh, I love this site and I will continue to pound it into submission. :laughing9:

40+ hunts here since Feb. '08, many of them without a keeper for 3 hour periods. Everything at this site with a date on it has been between 1897 and 1925, including coins, fuses with patent dates, etc. The site recently got “a shave” from the mowers because of fire season, exposing a couple of ‘new’ spots that are more detectable now. There is very little modern trash here, which makes digging very enjoyable. Thanks for looking. :laughing7:

- Jim

I have always wanted to dig a skeleton key and now I have one! I distinctly remember thinking this signal was 'crappy' before I dug it. Convinced it was going to be trash.

Wonder what kind of stone was in this ring? Copper or brass, but feels like copper. 2nd ring from this site.

Gorden’s Waldorf Club Fourth Street token. If anyone can find this one in their token databases, let me know. I'll cross-post on the token forum.

nova treasure · Oct 19, 2009

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Looks like a Great turn of the Century Site, Congrats .

Nova Treasure

tomharris76 · Oct 19, 2009

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Very cool finds.

ds6191 · Oct 19, 2009

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Great key, I found one like it recently. Also love the V nickel, keep hitting that field. Dan

allen · Oct 19, 2009

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wtg on that nice assortment of finds !!! :thumbsup:

Miningtown · Oct 19, 2009

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What a great site to have such little trash and I love those old keys! Keep finding and posting!

crazyjarhead · Oct 19, 2009

Hem weight, key, pottery means old place for sure. I had the luxery last year and into this year to hunt such a sight. No trash. Lots of oldies. They don't come easy. Hope you are able to dig up more goodies.

RiverRat3 · Oct 19, 2009

Nice finds........

Rusted_Iron · Oct 19, 2009

You have the kind of persistence that deserves to make good finds, and I can see you're getting a reward for it here. That's a nice assortment of oldies. Love the key and the Barber nickel.

The Patriot · Oct 19, 2009

some nice finds there.. still looking for my first skeleton key

1491 · Oct 20, 2009

Rusted_Iron said:
You have the kind of persistence that deserves to make good finds, and I can see you're getting a reward for it here. That's a nice assortment of oldies. Love the key and the Barber nickel.

Thanks for the attaboys gang. :hello:

This site is about 5 acres and now it has become sort of a game to be able to eek out another keeper on each visit. I was looking through my notes on the site from March of 2008. One of my hunting buddies did a couple of hours there and reported back that "it was a dud". Love it when folks give up on a site that still has goodies, especially if I plan on returning to it! :icon_pirat:

Rusted_Iron · Oct 20, 2009

One of my hunting buddies did a couple of hours there and reported back that "it was a dud". Love it when folks give up on a site that still has goodies, especially if I plan on returning to it!

Yeah I have been hunting "dud" sites a lot lately, out of sheer determination that they HAVE to produce something decent. Sometimes they don't, until trip # 10 or 11....

If you and I weren't on opposite sides of the country, I think we'd make good 'tectin buddies.

bula · Oct 20, 2009

Nice finds, I too have a spot that dates back to 1869 & I have spent 40+ hours there. I have found several old tools, spoons, & trinkets but have not yet found a coin. The only silver I have found there was the back half of a pocket watch that is .925 silver & dates back to 1791 made in England. Try as I might I have not found the other half.

1491 · Oct 20, 2009

Rusted_Iron,

Would love to go digging with ya one day. If you're ever in southern CA, send me a PM.

Bula,

Yeah, depending on the site, 40+ HOURS might sound like a lot of search effort, but maybe it's not. Your site sounds promising. I bet there is a coin or two waiting for you there. I've done 40+ HUNTS at this 5 acre site (1.5 to 3 HOURS PER HUNT) and am still pulling out the goodies. Because of the recent success there, I've been giving thought to get a PI machine to pull the "fringe DEEPIES outta there". I'm gonna strip-mine the place! :laughing9:

Jim

detectahead · Oct 20, 2009

Yrs and yrs I've detected and yet to find a skeleton! :headbang:

Rusted_Iron · Oct 20, 2009

ziphius said:
Because of the recent success there, I've been giving thought to get a PI machine to pull the "fringe DEEPIES outta there". I'm gonna strip-mine the place!

I know what you mean on those "fringe DEEPIES"! Gotta have 'em. Why buy a corroded copper disc on ebay for 5 bucks when you can spend 300 hours metal detecting an iffy site in the hope you'll dig one? I don't know why anybody would go the ebay route, the digging is the obvious choice.

I don't have a PI now but have thought along these same lines, for a couple of the really tough sites that I've hit.

There is one place where a friend with a Bounty Hunter found 2 or 3 old coins, one being a corroded copper disc of the desired largish size. Since then I have found ZERO coins earlier than 1940. I have made up my mind that there HAS to be one or more older coins on this site, and I will spend the rest of the year hitting it until one turns up. Even if I have to sell something so I can scrounge up the dough for a PI machine.

After, of course, I dig every single junk target in the first 8-10" of soil, on every square inch of the place. The way I figure, it should only take me about 3 or 4 hundred site visits, but if I play my cards right I'll have enough scrap aluminum, brass, and iron to cover most of the PI cost.............. :thumbsup:

dirt doctor · Oct 20, 2009

Nice going Jim !!

I believe that nowadays a person has a better shot at finding a skeleton rather than a skeleton key !!

H H ,
George

1491 · Oct 21, 2009

Rusted_Iron said:
ziphius said:

Because of the recent success there, I've been giving thought to get a PI machine to pull the "fringe DEEPIES outta there". I'm gonna strip-mine the place!

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I know what you mean on those "fringe DEEPIES"! Gotta have 'em. Why buy a corroded copper disc on ebay for 5 bucks when you can spend 300 hours metal detecting an iffy site in the hope you'll dig one? I don't know why anybody would go the ebay route, the digging is the obvious choice. I don't have a PI now but have thought along these same lines, for a couple of the really tough sites that I've hit.

There is one place where a friend with a Bounty Hunter found 2 or 3 old coins, one being a corroded copper disc of the desired largish size. Since then I have found ZERO coins earlier than 1940. I have made up my mind that there HAS to be one or more older coins on this site, and I will spend the rest of the year hitting it until one turns up. Even if I have to sell something so I can scrounge up the dough for a PI machine. After, of course, I dig every single junk target in the first 8-10" of soil, on every square inch of the place. The way I figure, it should only take me about 3 or 4 hundred site visits, but if I play my cards right I'll have enough scrap aluminum, brass, and iron to cover most of the PI cost..............