WOODSTOCK anyone ever detect it?

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

If you detected a guitar string from Jimi Hendrix that would be huge bucks. Let me get Scott Wolter of America Unearthed on the case.

 

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[Msbeepbeep]

Wouldn't hurt to ask, I say go for it, you never know what will turn up, treasure's where you find it!
Maybe some one hid they're cans of rare gold coins! Lol! Sorry couldn't resist.

 

[Aussie]

Where there were people, there will be targets and there were a lot of people. Large well made belt buckles were very popular in those times and the frequency pants were up and down I'd say a few were lost! Lol

 

[Jarl]

Hunt Woodstock grounds? I think you'd make a fortune in brass.

 

[Muddyhandz]

Actually Terry it was the brown acid you had to stay away from. It made a bunch of hippies have a very baaaad trip!

Here's a find one might expect there......



I found this at an old park no longer in use and is definitely from the same time period.



A vintage sterling coke spoon.

We find some weird chit out there detecting!

Cheers,
Dave.

 

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

Somone on the T-Net forum here has to be local to Woodstock NY. I bet they are hitting it up, I would if I was local to Woodstock. I am curious to hear about people that have detected there.

 

[digging]

Yes, I detected the Woodstock field in the 1980's. I've always been interested in the Festival, so finding most anything was fun....at first. Bear in mind that the field is 30 plus acres so I was just scratching the surface. No silver was found, but plenty of clad coins with none dating past 1969 obviously. There must have been a million jug wine bottle screw caps in that field of which I found about 50-100. It makes sense because it's Woodstock, right? I'm sure there's gold jewelry out there, but it's trashy obviously and I turned the discrimination up and thus forfeited gold. A rusted shut folding pocket knife; a leather wrapped Ronson lighter and a broken umbrella handle were found. The most interesting find was a flowery engraved black pipe stamped "India" whose intended purpose was not likely to be tobacco. Also, one of those aluminum gas station promotional tokens from that era which had on one side The Star-Spangled banner and a US flag. Ironic when you think that Jimi Hendrix closed Woodstock playing that song. All in all I enjoyed hunting it, but it was just an open country field then. Now the grounds are all manicured and there's a big concert hall and museum at the top of the hill, so it's doubtful anybody can hunt it anymore.

 

[SD51]

I do recall an article in W&E Treasures back then. Was that written by you, digging?

 

[scruggs]

​good idea...may of been other events held there in the past, you never know until the detector passes over!

 

[boogeyman]

I think it would be a waste of time. I mean, are you really excited about clad coins that would have been in circulation in 1969 ? Although there was a ton of people there, yet it was only for a single weekend (and thrashed with trash as you can see from the "after" pix). Seems to me you'd be better off going to a typical county park or beach where....... hundreds of persons have routinely gone, every weekend, for 50 or 100 yrs. Doing the math, I think in a single year the average park or school or beach or whatever ends up getting the same amount of foot-traffic-persons.

but ... whatever.

If you think about it, hardly any of us "drug addicted hippy freaks" had any money back then. I'd bet if you polled 100 attendees you would have found out of that 100 only 2 or 3 had more than a dime. Just sayin............

 

[Mackaydon]

Reminds me of this song for some reason:

Don......

 

[digging]

I do recall an article in W&E Treasures back then. Was that written by you, digging?

No it wasn't, but I'd like to read it.

 

[against the wind]

If you think about it, hardly any of us "drug addicted hippy freaks" had any money back then. I'd bet if you polled 100 attendees you would have found out of that 100 only 2 or 3 had more than a dime. Just sayin............

Yeah,, but was it a SILVER DIME??

 

[fistfulladirt]

I didn't hunt Woodstock, but I did hunt Goose Lake last year. It's now a 1,000-lot campground.
Goose Lake Music Festival, Leoni township, Mich, Aug. 7-9, 1970.
Capacity: 60,000.
Attendance: 200,000
Three days of drugs, rock-n-roll and deplorable debauchery. Oh, and a revolutionary 'rotating' stage.

I didn't find much of anything in a 30-minute hunt. Would like to try again though.

 

[SD51]

I remember the W&E Treasure article I read showed only clad was found, no silver. Being born in the 50s I remember in 1965 when all the silver coins were pretty much out of circulation. It was like they disappeared.

Funny comment about Woodstock... two years ago, I worked with a guy my age that said he and his brother had bought a VW Microbus in 1969 and were going to Woodstock with their girlfriends. Turns out his girlfriend got sick and she told him he couldn't go without her. His brother and girlfriend did go. I asked him, "What did his brother say about Woodstock"? He said his brother didn't remember a darn thing!!!

 

[aka da Prof]

good to read of your hunt there. I being a 'card carrying member' ( ticket holder) have always wondered what would be found, as you mentioned, lots of wine caps, and I figured many crushed beer cans, and of course numerous brass 'chamber pipes' (think how moldy that hash would be by now !!(JOKE)) . Personally I would avoid the field itself, but would hit the woods and camping areas. A lot of commerce went on away from the burger joints on the hill. Also in and around the pond might be a good place to hit for silver jewelry --- perhaps some day I'll 'get ack to the garden' and have a hunt there myself--

 

[digging]

good to read of your hunt there. I being a 'card carrying member' ( ticket holder) have always wondered what would be found, as you mentioned, lots of wine caps, and I figured many crushed beer cans, and of course numerous brass 'chamber pipes' (think how moldy that hash would be by now !!(JOKE)) . Personally I would avoid the field itself, but would hit the woods and camping areas. A lot of commerce went on away from the burger joints on the hill. Also in and around the pond might be a good place to hit for silver jewelry --- perhaps some day I'll 'get ack to the garden' and have a hunt there myself--

I thought about hunting the woods but never got there because I wasn't sure if it was owned by the same landowner at the time. I know they had paths in the woods that were named. What was in there? Were there makeshift stores, food sales, head shops? Did anyone camp in there?

 

[aka da Prof]

yup, them 'pot stands' were in the woods. With 400k kids stumblin' around, I would think any and all things could turn up. Also, I would not doubt that the new 'entrepreneurs' own it all around there. Thing to do is stop on by and see if it's posted---- only two hours from where I am, --'bucket list'--(when I need one)

 

[luvsdux]

I'd sure give it a try if had the opportunity. Shouldn't take long to discover whether it's a good hunt or not.
luvsdux

 

[foiler]

They where Hippies. There wasn't 2 nickles between any of 'em.