Mirage
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The weekend before this last Don had an idea for a road trip. The first site had an old home on it that had recently burned and now razed.
The field didn’t produce as we had hoped. After hunting awhile and not even finding wheat pennies I noticed the raised up ridge along the river. My speculation is that they pushed a lot of the original dirt along the creek when they made the park. Even around where the foundation was didn’t produce anything but a couple wheat pennies.
We then went to plans B, C and D.
Plan B – a park built in 1954. Talk about lack of targets.
Plan C – Town Library built in 1897. Plenty of clad but nothing old (most likely detected before).
Plan D – A park founded in 1902. Again, not a lot of targets.
Don did find an old well off the beaten path.
Again, we only found some wheat pennies. So total finds with Don for the day:
Well this lack of target stuff was a little frustrating to me so while I was driving home by myself I thought – shoot I’m going to stop at one my favorite regular spots. Sure enough, within an hour I found silver. Finds for the one hour hunt were as plentiful as the rest of the day.
Columbus Day was better to Nate and I. We started again exploring some new spots in Cleveland. The first site turned up a big bent silver crown ring. But again the new spots seemed like they had been relandscaped so we ended up at a spot we had been to once before that had produced a lone silver coin.
After a couple hours we had each found 3 silver coins and were satisfied. 8)
Also found an interesting broach. Pretty spent but still kinda neat.
Smashed silver ring, cheap mood ring, Rosevelt token and some wheats:
Trash from the site (this is the site where I posted all the lighters I found) is bad. Left side of the fork is trash from local spots and trash to the right road trip trash:
Had a first on this last Saturday. Nate and I just had a couple hours so we tried our local spots but they were full of rats (kids playing sports). So we ended up in basically an all black neighborhood. We were detecting and I noticed some o’ my homies come threw da hole in da fence.
They was chillin by the basketball hoops. We was minding our business walking to da car. I peeked up and one of them boyz asked me something about a brick. Usually my homies ask me ‘bout da finds so I says “Nothing good. Just some Quarters, dimes & pennies”. He says “no, you wantta buy some dope?” Now that’s a first!
Finds from the outing.
Take care.
Bob
The field didn’t produce as we had hoped. After hunting awhile and not even finding wheat pennies I noticed the raised up ridge along the river. My speculation is that they pushed a lot of the original dirt along the creek when they made the park. Even around where the foundation was didn’t produce anything but a couple wheat pennies.
We then went to plans B, C and D.
Plan B – a park built in 1954. Talk about lack of targets.
Plan C – Town Library built in 1897. Plenty of clad but nothing old (most likely detected before).
Plan D – A park founded in 1902. Again, not a lot of targets.
Don did find an old well off the beaten path.
Again, we only found some wheat pennies. So total finds with Don for the day:
Well this lack of target stuff was a little frustrating to me so while I was driving home by myself I thought – shoot I’m going to stop at one my favorite regular spots. Sure enough, within an hour I found silver. Finds for the one hour hunt were as plentiful as the rest of the day.
Columbus Day was better to Nate and I. We started again exploring some new spots in Cleveland. The first site turned up a big bent silver crown ring. But again the new spots seemed like they had been relandscaped so we ended up at a spot we had been to once before that had produced a lone silver coin.
After a couple hours we had each found 3 silver coins and were satisfied. 8)
Also found an interesting broach. Pretty spent but still kinda neat.
Smashed silver ring, cheap mood ring, Rosevelt token and some wheats:
Trash from the site (this is the site where I posted all the lighters I found) is bad. Left side of the fork is trash from local spots and trash to the right road trip trash:
Had a first on this last Saturday. Nate and I just had a couple hours so we tried our local spots but they were full of rats (kids playing sports). So we ended up in basically an all black neighborhood. We were detecting and I noticed some o’ my homies come threw da hole in da fence.
They was chillin by the basketball hoops. We was minding our business walking to da car. I peeked up and one of them boyz asked me something about a brick. Usually my homies ask me ‘bout da finds so I says “Nothing good. Just some Quarters, dimes & pennies”. He says “no, you wantta buy some dope?” Now that’s a first!
Finds from the outing.
Take care.
Bob
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We have been in much worse neighborhoods and never been asked so this was a big surprise. Especially a father with his son....Oh yeah, I didn't shave and Nates hair is almost down to his sholders - never mind. 
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I know I've had places to detect and had high hopes for 'em and come home with NO keepers! :P 
