Why is this concrete block ringing?

[treblehunter]

Super long day. I started at day break, the permission I had in that quaint little town was "Doctor Watson's House, 1808" I grided the entire yard in 3 and a half hours. I found two quarters, one stinkin Linclon, bling ring, and a wheatie, (1939) The night before, just before dark I knocked on a beautiful bed and breakfast and got permission to hunt for an hour. I found three pieces of metal capping, nothing else. I went back to the door to say thank you and asked the guy, "I have a sneaking suspicion that someone metal detected here before", he told me with a laugh, yes many, many times. I had asked the owner of the Dr's house and he told me no one had done it. While I was doing Dr. Watson's house I went over a, what looked like an old fish pond, bird bath? I don't know. I did get a hit with the CTX that rang 12-46, clear as a sweet bell. I went to dig it (there was grass clippings all over it) and hit concrete. It was tapered in a circle around the hole in the dirt about three foot across. I pulled out the concrete piece to look under it with my pinpointer and found two nails. I thought, this isn't it. I set the 8 inch by 5 inch semi circle block of 3 inch thick piece of concrete off to the side and stood up and checked it with my CTX. Clear as a bell, 12-46, now I'm thinking silver quarter. I go get some tools from the car, bang bang, out pops a bottle cap as big as a silver dollar. Matter of fact I thought for a second that was what I had, lol ha. Come to find out I can see and read E. R. Durkee & Co. New York, Trade Mark with a couple of hands in prayer. I look it up, in 2009 a fellow Tnetter found the exact bottle with same cap.http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/bottles-glass/143918-e-r-durkee-bottle.html
It's a salad dressing Co., patent April 17 1877

I drove two hours off the highway, on country roads knocking on 5 doors getting the same answer everytime, "I have metal detected this yard over and over". Tough neighborhood. Fun trip, met allot of nice people on the door knocks, good conversations with a few of them. Nice to be back home with my family, dog and house.
Enjoy the pix
HH & GL
Brad

 

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[GatorBoy]

Ha! And I thought you were hearing the rebar in the concrete

 

[Pointman]

12.46 consistent would have been worth breaking out the sledge for. I am surprised it wasn't silver. Over a year ago when I had my AT Pro, I did the same thing and an ancient piece of aluminum came out of the piece of sidewalk.

I detected an old house last week that I had been really working hard to get on. I only dug a wheat cent. The sidewalk had yielded a gold ring, numerous wheats and a Mercury dime in the past. I remember that the owner of the house across the street told me that someone had already searched her yard (although I found good stuff on the sidewalk). My guess is that this house had been hit too, but the current owner didn't know because they haven't lived there long. I went home very sad.

 

[treblehunter]

12.46 consistent would have been worth breaking out the sledge for. I am surprised it wasn't silver. Over a year ago when I had my AT Pro, I did the same thing and an ancient piece of aluminum came out of the piece of sidewalk.

I detected an old house last week that I had been really working hard to get on. I only dug a wheat cent. The sidewalk had yielded a gold ring, numerous wheats and a Mercury dime in the past. I remember that the owner of the house across the street told me that someone had already searched her yard (although I found good stuff on the sidewalk). My guess is that this house had been hit too, but the current owner didn't know because they haven't lived there long. I went home very sad.

Enough of the green acres for me buddy, time to hit some of these old city's near me. The bigger the better.

 

[dirtlooter]

at least it wasn't a rusty screw. those kind of days tend to make the better spots even better when you find them. I figured that you were going to pull out a silver dime or something like that, even a ring... ha!

 

[treblehunter]

at least it wasn't a rusty screw. those kind of days tend to make the better spots even better when you find them. I figured that you were going to pull out a silver dime or something like that, even a ring... ha!

I was positive it was a silver quarter, ha
I still liked it, could still put an approximate date on it, 1920 from the other thread I believe.

 

[MuckyBottles]

Enough of the green acres for me buddy, time to hit some of these old city's near me. The bigger the better.

North Jersey is all hunted out..lol..forget about orange and rockland counties nothing to find up here..

 

[treblehunter]

I hear you loud and clear, I'll be up Thursday!