Question about a plowed very old crop field

[Honest Samuel]

CTwoods, good to hear from another member from the great state of Connecticut, where Texas is the capital. Good hunting and good luck.

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Diving for Pleasure and Treasure - Grab it through Amazon!

[kcm]

CTwoods, good to hear from another member from the great state of Connecticut, where Texas is the capital. Good hunting and good luck.

Where Texas is the capital??

 

[fyrffytr1]

I hunt a field similar to what you describe and had the same results. After the first few plowings the targets got fewer and fewer. But, every time the field is plowed I hit it and still manage to pull a good find now and then. I use different search patterns each time I hunt. One time I will search in a line back and forth until I am through. The next hunt will be at a 90 degree angle to the first hunt. And, I will hunt on a diagonal the next time.
And, a coin may be on edge making it harder to find on one hunt but turned flat after a plow.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Two years ago, I stumbled onto what must have been a very early homesite or cabin site in a field that is still being plowed each year. My first three 2 hour hunts gave up so many early things like coppers, a 1726 reale, shoe buckles, knee buckle, batwing buckles, thimbles and dozens of very early buttons.

I always waited till fall after harvest and found more each time.

This past winter was mild, so I did hunt there a bit more, and found some stragglers that I missed since I hunted after last fall harvest. But after this spring tilling, I tried it again, but had to quit in less than 10 minutes because I saw fresh seeds that had just been planted. But I found a slick large copper coin in the first 3 minutes! I just went back yesterday now that the corn is a foot tall, so I am now not damaging the crop.

I fully expected to find at least a few early buttons, a couple of coppers, and more broken shoe buckle parts, and relics... But there were almost ZERO hits of non-ferrous targets? I did find only one keeper item; a 1864 indian head, but nothing else old.

I am not a super expert MDer, nor do I have a super machine that could clean everything out down to a foot, so why has the hot spot dried up completely with fresh tilling? I was hoping this field would produce for many years to come, after each tilling. I don't know if they shallow till with a disc harrow, or if they till deeper with a bottom plow, but I am still bewildered on why there was almost nothing yesterday.

Whilst freshly ploughed good fields will always bring up fresh finds, they are not the best time to get the goodies, you need the field to compact which usually happens after very heavy rain or snow after the fresh plough. Usually over here the best time is early spring after the winter when the field has had time to settle.

SS