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- Metal Detecting
Saturday's keepers and a little advice.
Saturday I drove down to a little town about 75 miles from home to detect the park which used to be the county fairgrounds. This site has been detected very hard for years, but with all the rain we've had recently, and with the cooler conditions outside, I decided to give it a try.
There used to be an old cement sidewalk that ran adjacent to the main road in the park but now the sidewalk was widened and gravel was put in. The first thing I noticed was that there were some tree roots exposed in the gravel which made me think that the gravel couldn't be very deep. So I decided to detect the gravel and found out it was only about 1 to 2 inched deep. Below the gravel was black dirt. I only found a few coins there but realized that this area had not been detected before.
The advice: When I saw this gravel, it reminded me of a time where a friend and I detected a baseball field in a small town. We hadn't found much in the grassy outfield, so we decided to hunt in the graveled infield expecting to find at least some clad coins. We were surprised to find that the gravel there was also only about 1 to 2 inched deep. We came home that day with over 3 dollars in silver. Another time I detected an old outdoor theater that had a gravel drive. Again, lots of silver was found, but was a little harder to dig in.
The moral: Don't pass up sites just because it looks like the gravel might be too deep. Often times it's not as deep as you might think.
Saturday I drove down to a little town about 75 miles from home to detect the park which used to be the county fairgrounds. This site has been detected very hard for years, but with all the rain we've had recently, and with the cooler conditions outside, I decided to give it a try.
There used to be an old cement sidewalk that ran adjacent to the main road in the park but now the sidewalk was widened and gravel was put in. The first thing I noticed was that there were some tree roots exposed in the gravel which made me think that the gravel couldn't be very deep. So I decided to detect the gravel and found out it was only about 1 to 2 inched deep. Below the gravel was black dirt. I only found a few coins there but realized that this area had not been detected before.
The advice: When I saw this gravel, it reminded me of a time where a friend and I detected a baseball field in a small town. We hadn't found much in the grassy outfield, so we decided to hunt in the graveled infield expecting to find at least some clad coins. We were surprised to find that the gravel there was also only about 1 to 2 inched deep. We came home that day with over 3 dollars in silver. Another time I detected an old outdoor theater that had a gravel drive. Again, lots of silver was found, but was a little harder to dig in.
The moral: Don't pass up sites just because it looks like the gravel might be too deep. Often times it's not as deep as you might think.
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