tnt-hunter
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2018
- Messages
- 1,923
- Reaction score
- 10,528
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Mountain Maryland
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 9
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Winter is here, that’s for sure. And with the holidays fast approaching finding time to detect has been a challenge. I was out the other day on the campus field swingin the CZ21 in the slushy melting snow the other day. Frozen fingers, muddy wet clothes and I found a ton of newer stay on tabs ( I know, stay on tabs seem to come off a lot), some clad and a coin far away from home. It is an Egyptian 1 millieme from 1972. Not real old to me (I’m almost 70), but it has been around for a while. Maybe it came with a foreign student who attended the college.
I went back to the same field yesterday. It has been snowing and the temps have been in the teens so the ground has started to freeze. At home we have about 3 inches on the ground. On campus they got very little snow and they have had enough sun for that snow to melt. But the ground is still frozen in most places down as deep as 3 inches, with a few unfrozen spots where the digging was normal. I spent 4 hours in the sun (the sun felt nice) swingin my CZ with the air temp in the low to mid 30s. I found a nice variety of things. On course I found some foil and can slaw along with a few tabs and bits of copper wire and brass bits as I dug all the mid and high tones and iffys.
All together 57 coins with a face value of $3.77, 2 interesting brass pieces, 2 rings, a cross and a flat button.
The brass pieces are part of a snap like the ones used on WW2 military bags like the ones I bought at the army surplus store as a kid and a screw on tip off of something. It has a hole that goes all the way through like it could be a nozzle off of a sprayer or something similar.
One ring is a religious one found just under the grass. It gave a quick repeat mid tone that made me think it was a tab on the surface. It is made of black stainless or titanium (not marked) with the symbols representing “God is greater than the highs and lows”. The other one is bent up and is marked 925 with marcasite stones in the design. It was a high tone about 2 inches down in the frozen ground and I caught a peak of it in the frozen clump as I broke it apart.
The cross has is a simple design and is 10k. It was also a mid tone and it was probably on a cheapy chain because it has a brass ring used to fasten it on the chain.
The flat button is a nice old one. It is a tombac with a copper alloy intact shank. It is about 3/4 of an inch in size and it’s the smallest tombac I have ever found. (I don’t find many) it was also a mid tone.
Digging the mid tones has paid off. If I was cherry-picking the high tones I would have missed 3 out of the 4 good targets today as well as missing some nickels and zinc pennies that also give mid tone responses.
Add all these finds to the Indian head I posted a while back and this ball field is looking really good. I have been working the field in a grid pattern so I can cover every inch. So far I have only done about a tenth of the field so if my luck holds there should be more goodies to come. But you know how it goes, today it’s great and tomorrow it’s all tabs and clad. We will have to wait and see. With luck I will get one more day in before Christmas, but it’s the season to be busy and family obligations do come first.
Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
I went back to the same field yesterday. It has been snowing and the temps have been in the teens so the ground has started to freeze. At home we have about 3 inches on the ground. On campus they got very little snow and they have had enough sun for that snow to melt. But the ground is still frozen in most places down as deep as 3 inches, with a few unfrozen spots where the digging was normal. I spent 4 hours in the sun (the sun felt nice) swingin my CZ with the air temp in the low to mid 30s. I found a nice variety of things. On course I found some foil and can slaw along with a few tabs and bits of copper wire and brass bits as I dug all the mid and high tones and iffys.
All together 57 coins with a face value of $3.77, 2 interesting brass pieces, 2 rings, a cross and a flat button.
The brass pieces are part of a snap like the ones used on WW2 military bags like the ones I bought at the army surplus store as a kid and a screw on tip off of something. It has a hole that goes all the way through like it could be a nozzle off of a sprayer or something similar.
One ring is a religious one found just under the grass. It gave a quick repeat mid tone that made me think it was a tab on the surface. It is made of black stainless or titanium (not marked) with the symbols representing “God is greater than the highs and lows”. The other one is bent up and is marked 925 with marcasite stones in the design. It was a high tone about 2 inches down in the frozen ground and I caught a peak of it in the frozen clump as I broke it apart.
The cross has is a simple design and is 10k. It was also a mid tone and it was probably on a cheapy chain because it has a brass ring used to fasten it on the chain.
The flat button is a nice old one. It is a tombac with a copper alloy intact shank. It is about 3/4 of an inch in size and it’s the smallest tombac I have ever found. (I don’t find many) it was also a mid tone.
Digging the mid tones has paid off. If I was cherry-picking the high tones I would have missed 3 out of the 4 good targets today as well as missing some nickels and zinc pennies that also give mid tone responses.
Add all these finds to the Indian head I posted a while back and this ball field is looking really good. I have been working the field in a grid pattern so I can cover every inch. So far I have only done about a tenth of the field so if my luck holds there should be more goodies to come. But you know how it goes, today it’s great and tomorrow it’s all tabs and clad. We will have to wait and see. With luck I will get one more day in before Christmas, but it’s the season to be busy and family obligations do come first.
Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
Amazon Forum Fav 👍
Upvote
21
