short hunt at historic site 12/22

bootybay · Dec 22, 2007

I only hunted one hr. needed to get out and be in the air... today I found a colgate cream deodorant ( tiny jar with lid) milk glass..made in jersey city,NJ... I think most likely this was made in the 50's.. the milkglass is in mint condition..weird thou... this is about the size of a small tub of lip gloss.. maybe a sample sized one..beats me. Then some shotgun shell casings... then a window doo hicky.... and I have soaking in rust remover some rusty crusty thingy..I am not sure what that is yet..will post pictures after I take it out of the rust remover... either way.. was great to get out... kinda suprised I havent found a coin yet there..but I will gladly settle for another civil war relic or revolutionairy war item.. ohhhhhhhhhhh yea.

Brendan M. · Dec 23, 2007

Nice finds!

I always keep those milk glass cold cream jars when I find them. They're too nice to pass up! My wife keeps threatening me not to bring another found bottle home.

Forgive me if you already know this, but since you use a White's machine (I use an XLT) you might want to look into using a program that utilizes mixed-mode audio, which I've found to be perfect for relic hunting. I have a good program I got from a book (can't find it this exact moment) but I'm sure you can find a few online if you Google it. If no luck PM me and I'll give you the settings right off my machine.

What's nice about it is it combines both all-metal and discriminate modes. So when you're hunting an old site you'll always be aware of where there's metal in the ground -- you get a low all-metal tone whenever your coil sweeps over something; then if it's within your discrimination ranges, you get a high-pitched tone that combines with the low tone and kind of overpowers it. Those are the signals you should especially always dig. You also get a very distinct broken sound when you sweep over large iron, so you can choose to dig those too. I've been hunting a series of huge former farm fields and the amount of iron in the ground is astonishing. If you're into digging up old farm tools, horseshoes, etc., you'll have a trunk full before you know it!

Good luck!

Cheers and HH,
Bman

bootybay · Dec 23, 2007

Bram.. this place is like layered with history... first it was a tavern stop for the horse n buggies..then it was a general store that also became a post office..then somewheres in time it also became a gulf station with two pumps.. then it was also 30 yrs ago, used as farming crops... so see, this is why I am finding all weird stuff from different time frames... poss. the rev. war...civil war... early 40-50's...lordy knows whats there... we are talking over 10 acres.. I seriously am having me a ball at it....I just wish I could get my hands on the sandborn maps to see where the out buildings were and the outhouse.. I would dearly love to find where they dumped their trash too... theres gullies n mounds all over the place.. so since the historian sent me pictures ( which showed the gulf station) I wonder,hummm is this why it hasnt sold yet? buried tanks? or maybe the price is too high.. alls I know is its still owned by the original family which was one of the founding families here... Every time I go there, I look at that falling down house which is loaded with antique furniture and still looks like a general store inside from what I could see thru one window.. and I think god, I would love to own this..or at least see the insides of it... then again I would drool all over the antiques as that is my weakness.. I just love this place..