Frodov
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- Joined
- May 24, 2007
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- Location
- Lexington, KY
- Detector(s) used
- Whites Prism IV / Bullseye II pinpointer
Hi Everyone! I can't believe it's been over a week since my last post, and last hunt. I was on Vacation last week of course and got to indulge several times that week. This week, not so much. Work and Weather conspired against me until this morning. Day two of my three day cycle (off) and the rain had stopped sometime last night. The grass was still wet and soggy, but the skies were clearing up and promising to turn into a nice autumn day. A bit on the cool side to be sure, but still pleasant enough. With a kiss to my still slumbering spouse and a few kitty treats tossed to my four legged youngin', I grabbed my gear and headed off to scratch some dirt.
Well, I did scratch some dirt, eventually, but I began my days hunting at a nearby park and the woodchips of the tot lot there. I figured I might still get a little soggy, but not nearly so much as from the grass when I began hunting the park itself. I got down in the grass right off the bat though. Walking from the parking area to the tot lot I swept along the side of the sidewalk and got a pretty good couple of targets. All Pennies, they turned out to be, but I dug them all the same. One target was a bit unusual though, it was three memorial cents frozen together in some wax, parafin I think, or more likely, candle wax. How it came to be that way I don't have a clue.
Finally making it to the tot lot I began sweeping the wood chips in earnest, a penny here, a nickle there, Whoops.. a toy car.. coin, crap, crap, crap, coin, pull tab, crap, coin... too bad all the coins couldn't be quarters or dimes, even though I found a bunch of each. As I finished up the tot lot I was in the "sand pit" and got a weird signal, jumping around between zinc penny and quarter, but also alternating between solid and very weak signal. I figured it was either some foil from someones discarded drink cover, or perhaps another toy car buried in the sand. Well it was a toy, but not a car. I'm not exactly sure what it is really, but I think I've seen them in electronics stores like Best Buy and Circuit City. Anyone Know what this thing is? it's got an on/off switch on the back, but I suppose the battery(s) is dead, and it's still half full of sand.
Moving on, from the tot lot to the park proper.. or at least back towards my parked truck anyway, I swept around a bunch of trees and pic nic tables. I found mostly can slaw and pull tabs of course, but a few coins thrown into the mix as well. From up on the hill opposite from where I was parked, I could hear the crowd cheering and the whistles blowing from the little league football games going on this morning. I would like to have searched over and around there but with the games still going on that was not going to happen. Instead, I loaded back up into my truck and headed for the nearest of two grade schools that I was going to search this morning as well.
The first playground (grade school) didn't really produce much to talk about other than a few memorial cents and a couple of nickles.. oh and one rather dark coin.. a Presidential Dollar Coin, James Monroe.
... See what I mean about being dark.. guess the woodchips or the chemicals in them mixed with the rain water to tarnish or stain this coin.. it's not that old. <shrug>
On to the second of the two grade school playgrounds. I started finding pull tabs and can slaw before I ever got to the playground equipment and the wood chips. I almost didn't search the chips because I was getting aggravated with the trash. I'm glad I pressed on though, I found some goodies here. Someones lost marble.. a led flashing skull necklace..(oooh spooky)..There was this little elastic banded, glass beaded ring with a silver butterfly (well, silver colored metal anyway) near the jungle jim. And I found this little Kitty Cat earring (silver post anyway) near one of the slides.
I found a little purse near the swing sets.. or at least what's left of a pendant that looks like a little purse.. with mouse ears on it.. Not far from that, in the grass beside the wood chips was this other pendant.. or what I suspect was a pendant or some sort of medal or award.<shrug>
Lots of pennies and some dimes and a couple of quarters, then outside of the woodchips, halfway up the hill on my way back to my truck, I got another weak signal that rang up in the nickle range on my Prizm IV.. More can slaw or a pull tab I thought and continued walking.. but then I thought better of it and back tracked a few steps to sweep again.. same weak signal.. but it was showing pretty shallow, maybe two inches, if that, so I probed around. I didn't feel anything with my probe so I dug a plug out of the grass and flipped it over and ran my Bullseye around over the plug then down in the hole. Out comes this little copper child's ring. Well a "small" ring anyway, child's or not I don't know. *sigh* I tossed it into my finds bag with the other crap and continued on to the truck. As it was nearing lunch time (noonish) I called my darling wife and told her I was going to come on home for lunch. Time to take a break of sorts. <grin>
Lunch of a nice hot bowl of chili that I made last night really hit the spot. Then a tall cold glass of tea and some TV with my wife. Actually started out watching the televised Football game between the University of Florida vs University of Kentucky, at Florida. It was early in the first quarter of the game and Fla was WHOMPING UK 35 to 0 ! OH MY GAWWWWD <rolling eyes> That's just plain embarrassing. <shuddering> My wife wanted to run to a crafts store to get something for a project she was working on so we nixed the tv and took a drive. After returning home and finding the game still all too disgusting to watch, I decided to go back out and do some more detecting. This time to a nearby Baseball park just a few blocks from my house.
More goodies were forthcoming. Coins.. oh yes! Lots of coins! I found a few of these odd looking things in the bushes along one fence line of the park too..anyone able to identify them?
... <grin>...
I found a couple more toy cars.. going to be quite an addition to Fro's Used Cars today ! Three cars in one day!? Cool!
I also found this odd looking coin. At first I thought I might have uncovered another "toss coin" like I've been finding at the soccer parks.. but I think this is something else.. Anyone ever hear of this "Pokeman" thing? <grin>
At two different ends of the park, two different ball fields, I found the same charm. It's a little pink ribbon as in "breast cancer awareness ribbon" charm. Both appear to have slipped off whatever their owners had been wearing them on. Guess they weren't too aware of them huh? They rang up like dimes on my detector, but I seriously doubt that they are silver.
I found a few more coins after that, and a few other odd pieces of metal and trash, but by now the ol tummy was beginning to remind me that it was nearing dinner time. I started heading for the parking lot and from there towards home. At home I sorted through my finds and took my pictures. I cleaned some of the stuff up to get a better look at it all. Here's a composite picture of all the coins..
... And the other stuff..
And lastly.. this little copper ring.. Wha... I mean.. well HOLY MOLEY!!! IT'S GOLD!!!!! After cleaning the dirt out of the inside of the band I spied two little hallmark stamps.. one with the initials JCM and the other that showed "10K" YEEEEEHAAAAAWWWWW!!!! And to think, ONE, I nearly didn't dig that signal.. and TWO I almost discarded it with the trash metal thinking it was a gumball machine ring.. <rolling eyes>
Whew! Ok.. Here's the little devil for you to see. <grin>
Yeah.. Over $10 in clad, one of which was a nice big DOLLAR coin.. and some toys, some balls (sports equipment that will be donated to good will) and even a nice little gold ring! I had a GOOD day! A little hunting here, a little hunting there.. all told I hunted for maybe three hours today if you add them all together and subtract out my lunch break and chauffeur trip to the crafts store. <grin> Yeah.. a good day INDEED!
Here's hoping you all get out and get to detect a little.. as always..
HAPPY HUNTING!!
Frodov
Well, I did scratch some dirt, eventually, but I began my days hunting at a nearby park and the woodchips of the tot lot there. I figured I might still get a little soggy, but not nearly so much as from the grass when I began hunting the park itself. I got down in the grass right off the bat though. Walking from the parking area to the tot lot I swept along the side of the sidewalk and got a pretty good couple of targets. All Pennies, they turned out to be, but I dug them all the same. One target was a bit unusual though, it was three memorial cents frozen together in some wax, parafin I think, or more likely, candle wax. How it came to be that way I don't have a clue.
Finally making it to the tot lot I began sweeping the wood chips in earnest, a penny here, a nickle there, Whoops.. a toy car.. coin, crap, crap, crap, coin, pull tab, crap, coin... too bad all the coins couldn't be quarters or dimes, even though I found a bunch of each. As I finished up the tot lot I was in the "sand pit" and got a weird signal, jumping around between zinc penny and quarter, but also alternating between solid and very weak signal. I figured it was either some foil from someones discarded drink cover, or perhaps another toy car buried in the sand. Well it was a toy, but not a car. I'm not exactly sure what it is really, but I think I've seen them in electronics stores like Best Buy and Circuit City. Anyone Know what this thing is? it's got an on/off switch on the back, but I suppose the battery(s) is dead, and it's still half full of sand.
Moving on, from the tot lot to the park proper.. or at least back towards my parked truck anyway, I swept around a bunch of trees and pic nic tables. I found mostly can slaw and pull tabs of course, but a few coins thrown into the mix as well. From up on the hill opposite from where I was parked, I could hear the crowd cheering and the whistles blowing from the little league football games going on this morning. I would like to have searched over and around there but with the games still going on that was not going to happen. Instead, I loaded back up into my truck and headed for the nearest of two grade schools that I was going to search this morning as well.
The first playground (grade school) didn't really produce much to talk about other than a few memorial cents and a couple of nickles.. oh and one rather dark coin.. a Presidential Dollar Coin, James Monroe.
... See what I mean about being dark.. guess the woodchips or the chemicals in them mixed with the rain water to tarnish or stain this coin.. it's not that old. <shrug>
On to the second of the two grade school playgrounds. I started finding pull tabs and can slaw before I ever got to the playground equipment and the wood chips. I almost didn't search the chips because I was getting aggravated with the trash. I'm glad I pressed on though, I found some goodies here. Someones lost marble.. a led flashing skull necklace..(oooh spooky)..There was this little elastic banded, glass beaded ring with a silver butterfly (well, silver colored metal anyway) near the jungle jim. And I found this little Kitty Cat earring (silver post anyway) near one of the slides.
I found a little purse near the swing sets.. or at least what's left of a pendant that looks like a little purse.. with mouse ears on it.. Not far from that, in the grass beside the wood chips was this other pendant.. or what I suspect was a pendant or some sort of medal or award.<shrug>
Lots of pennies and some dimes and a couple of quarters, then outside of the woodchips, halfway up the hill on my way back to my truck, I got another weak signal that rang up in the nickle range on my Prizm IV.. More can slaw or a pull tab I thought and continued walking.. but then I thought better of it and back tracked a few steps to sweep again.. same weak signal.. but it was showing pretty shallow, maybe two inches, if that, so I probed around. I didn't feel anything with my probe so I dug a plug out of the grass and flipped it over and ran my Bullseye around over the plug then down in the hole. Out comes this little copper child's ring. Well a "small" ring anyway, child's or not I don't know. *sigh* I tossed it into my finds bag with the other crap and continued on to the truck. As it was nearing lunch time (noonish) I called my darling wife and told her I was going to come on home for lunch. Time to take a break of sorts. <grin>
Lunch of a nice hot bowl of chili that I made last night really hit the spot. Then a tall cold glass of tea and some TV with my wife. Actually started out watching the televised Football game between the University of Florida vs University of Kentucky, at Florida. It was early in the first quarter of the game and Fla was WHOMPING UK 35 to 0 ! OH MY GAWWWWD <rolling eyes> That's just plain embarrassing. <shuddering> My wife wanted to run to a crafts store to get something for a project she was working on so we nixed the tv and took a drive. After returning home and finding the game still all too disgusting to watch, I decided to go back out and do some more detecting. This time to a nearby Baseball park just a few blocks from my house.
More goodies were forthcoming. Coins.. oh yes! Lots of coins! I found a few of these odd looking things in the bushes along one fence line of the park too..anyone able to identify them?
... <grin>...
I found a couple more toy cars.. going to be quite an addition to Fro's Used Cars today ! Three cars in one day!? Cool!
I also found this odd looking coin. At first I thought I might have uncovered another "toss coin" like I've been finding at the soccer parks.. but I think this is something else.. Anyone ever hear of this "Pokeman" thing? <grin>
At two different ends of the park, two different ball fields, I found the same charm. It's a little pink ribbon as in "breast cancer awareness ribbon" charm. Both appear to have slipped off whatever their owners had been wearing them on. Guess they weren't too aware of them huh? They rang up like dimes on my detector, but I seriously doubt that they are silver.
I found a few more coins after that, and a few other odd pieces of metal and trash, but by now the ol tummy was beginning to remind me that it was nearing dinner time. I started heading for the parking lot and from there towards home. At home I sorted through my finds and took my pictures. I cleaned some of the stuff up to get a better look at it all. Here's a composite picture of all the coins..
... And the other stuff..
And lastly.. this little copper ring.. Wha... I mean.. well HOLY MOLEY!!! IT'S GOLD!!!!! After cleaning the dirt out of the inside of the band I spied two little hallmark stamps.. one with the initials JCM and the other that showed "10K" YEEEEEHAAAAAWWWWW!!!! And to think, ONE, I nearly didn't dig that signal.. and TWO I almost discarded it with the trash metal thinking it was a gumball machine ring.. <rolling eyes>
Whew! Ok.. Here's the little devil for you to see. <grin>
Yeah.. Over $10 in clad, one of which was a nice big DOLLAR coin.. and some toys, some balls (sports equipment that will be donated to good will) and even a nice little gold ring! I had a GOOD day! A little hunting here, a little hunting there.. all told I hunted for maybe three hours today if you add them all together and subtract out my lunch break and chauffeur trip to the crafts store. <grin> Yeah.. a good day INDEED!
Here's hoping you all get out and get to detect a little.. as always..
HAPPY HUNTING!!
Frodov
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