What Have You Ever Found WITHOUT the Detector, While Metal Detecting?

[AusTexDude]

While metal detecting I have found various sight find items not found by the detector.

I guess the most valuable would be a broken swiss watch that I got $50 for parts on Ebay.

I have also found some nice goggles, sunglasses, and about 2 dozen fossils, mostly giant clam fossils, some fairly large about as big as a softball.

Also found a couple of cool pieces of driftwood and some holy limestone pieces that would fetch a few dollars.

 

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[smokeythecat]

On Tuesday, two Civil War period common clay marbles and 5 white porcelain buttons which were eyeballed, a German pontiled marble ca 1860 and a glass trade bead today.

 

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[Molewacker]

Beer on the beach!

 

[worldtalker]

Three 20's,14K gold ring w/emerald/aquamarine stones,14K tricolor gold necklace.

GOD Bless America

Chris

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

Found a $100 Bill fluttering in the bushes, while gold prospecting. Looked everywhere after that, but there wasn't more..., after all, I'm not greedy,..much.........!

 

[detectorcowboy]

Back in the day I was crossing A1A & Broadway.
I looked down and there was a 100 dollar bill I picked it up

 

[CZKidd]

A beautiful silver ring, at the bottom of a slide, in a playground, to which is now on one of my wife's fingers. In other words, confiscated.

 

[Pioneer608]

Found a $1 bill on two separate ocassions while out detecting. Just this past weekend I found 4 small metal buckets with handles in the woods. I brought them home. Always finding extras

 

[RustyRelics]

Probably these early 1800s marbles from the foundation of an old colonial house I was metal detecting in Virginia. That is also where I dug up my best metal detecting find ever, and possibly forever, haha!

 

[danloop]

A dirty round thing caught my eye as I was leaving. It was a copper makeup case with the mirror still intact. For goodwill, I gave it to a lady working in the city office where I got the word it was ok to detect along the river. Turned out she collected old make up stuff.

 

[PhipsFolly]

An 18 carat gold wedding band and lots of 17th and 18th century artifacts and bottles without a detector.[emoji6]

 

[bc5391]

My first coin when I was 5 (still have it) was playing in a sandbox in Japan 1957, since then paper money, arrows, horseshoes, coins, railroad spikes, mining equipment, illegals or to be politically correct undocumented border immigrants (Reported to border patrol)

 

[Doubloony]

An antique shotgun embedded in the mud of a creek bank I was hunting. I can't think of many small things I have eyed. I was hunting an abandoned property and house in Louisiana, and found a pine coffin in an upstairs closet. Luckily for me, no-one was in it, as I felt that I needed to check and see.

 

[VaGent]

Old bottles, ceramics, NA arrowheads, antlers, wild plants that I brought home and planted (azaleas, yuccas, irises), iron carriage wheel, mill stone.

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

On Flager beach, Fl I found a pilot's license while metal detecting the beach on a windy day. The night before, the young pilot crash landed her plane on the beach 100 yards from where I saw the piece of paper blowing in the wind. The pilot died. I returned the license to the family in Japan.

 

[rayoh]

Years ago I was hunting the county fairgrounds that has a horse racing track that has a fence around it. You can't get your coil up to the fence so as I was detecting a 18 inches or so from the fence, I was eyeing the ground under the fence. They use weed killer along the fence so it had bare ground under it. I eye spotted two nickels laying on the surface. One buffalo and one war nickel. Who needs a detector!

 

[ticndig]

U.S breast plate face down in the dust at a construction site , bone buttons , glass buttons ,arrowheads , marbles ,porcelain doll legs , clay smoking pipes , flat buttons , coins , paper money , bottles , ink wells . the list is long but those are a few I recall worth noting.

 

[Coonhound]

I live in Northern New Mexico on a dirt road that was once part of or at least near to the Old Spanish Trail. On top of a small hill overlooking the road, I found a Barber half dollar dated 1899. On another visit to the same area I picked up a standing liberty quarter with no date visible. This inspired me to purchase my first detector, a Nokta Simplex. I took the Simplex back to that hilltop and searched it thoroughly but found nothing else. I have also found numerous native American artifacts which are very common in this area.

 

[Richard Guy]

A valid Credit Card
A dollar bill

 

[Jager32]

While at work doing drilling for building foundation in NYC I had my Aqua Pulse with me. But do to a lot of construction debris from centuries of debris from building built on the site I took to using a hose to wash the spoils, mainly in search of someones buried money hoard who didn't trust the banks. The result was a start to antique bottle collecting.

 

[RustyGold]

I found $40 laying on the sidewalk from my habit of always looking down.