NJKLAGT
Bronze Member
- Oct 18, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
- Garrett Euro Ace 350
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 'Hope you're all gettin' stuffed silly with some awesome food and having a great time with family and/or friends.
I know that I'm posting in the wrong forum again, but...
Anyway, I went to the house spot today and tried some metal detecting for a change. The yard is completely overgrown with tall goldenrod and brambles and littered with fallen branches, so it's quite the whack. And it's very trashy too, difficult to read even while using discrimination. As I was digging some rustbuckets I ran into some nice bits of glass, mostly tooled tops. I thought, "hey, maybe if I put enough holes in the place I'll happen across a second privy", but, nothing so far. Coming up to the house there is an old road that forks into two - the old road that continues, and a new access road laid with gravel. I swept along the old road, which unfortunately is just as overgrown as the yard, and got a lot of big iron signals, two of which were axe heads that I'll clean up and show you later. I decided to try around the bases of some big old trees lining the roadside, and it was mostly the same story about big iron chunks of nothing. But around a big sugar maple I finally got a small concentrated signal that didn't seem like a rusted nail or shovel head, and so I dug an 8 inch plug. I carefully rummaged through the bottom of the plug and exposed the smooth edge of something, and I had a pretty good feeling that it was a coin. And it was! It ain't silver or gold, but hey, here's my oldest coin yet, a 1902 Edward VII penny. It must have been dropped by someone sitting under the tree by the road, perhaps reading a book or waiting for a guest to arrive. I'm pretty pumped about it, pretty 'thankful', I should say. I don't detect nearly as much as I dig glass, but I'm getting better and better at it.
Around the foundations I also found some ornate tin and brass, a bell, and a beat-up spoon that was once silver plated. I'm hoping to find some more coins or some buttons next time!
Thanks for looking and have a happy Thanksgiving evening,
NJK
I know that I'm posting in the wrong forum again, but...
Anyway, I went to the house spot today and tried some metal detecting for a change. The yard is completely overgrown with tall goldenrod and brambles and littered with fallen branches, so it's quite the whack. And it's very trashy too, difficult to read even while using discrimination. As I was digging some rustbuckets I ran into some nice bits of glass, mostly tooled tops. I thought, "hey, maybe if I put enough holes in the place I'll happen across a second privy", but, nothing so far. Coming up to the house there is an old road that forks into two - the old road that continues, and a new access road laid with gravel. I swept along the old road, which unfortunately is just as overgrown as the yard, and got a lot of big iron signals, two of which were axe heads that I'll clean up and show you later. I decided to try around the bases of some big old trees lining the roadside, and it was mostly the same story about big iron chunks of nothing. But around a big sugar maple I finally got a small concentrated signal that didn't seem like a rusted nail or shovel head, and so I dug an 8 inch plug. I carefully rummaged through the bottom of the plug and exposed the smooth edge of something, and I had a pretty good feeling that it was a coin. And it was! It ain't silver or gold, but hey, here's my oldest coin yet, a 1902 Edward VII penny. It must have been dropped by someone sitting under the tree by the road, perhaps reading a book or waiting for a guest to arrive. I'm pretty pumped about it, pretty 'thankful', I should say. I don't detect nearly as much as I dig glass, but I'm getting better and better at it.
Around the foundations I also found some ornate tin and brass, a bell, and a beat-up spoon that was once silver plated. I'm hoping to find some more coins or some buttons next time!
Thanks for looking and have a happy Thanksgiving evening,
NJK
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