Digger_O'Dell
12-15-2015, 08:23 PM
Back out a couple times for short hunts. Sunday I went to visit a friend in hospice, so naturally it wasn't the most pleasant of days to begin with. But since I was in a town an hour plus drive away and had 2 hours to kill. Even though it was raining I decided to stop at a local park and swing the detector a bit, which helped in getting my mind off the depressing day I had been having to that point.
The place I found was an old Indian burial grounds with Indian mounds. According to the sign posted at the site stated that in 1929 the mounds had been excavated by archaeologists from the Milwaukee museum. Apparently they must have destroyed the mounds in the process as it stated that they were restored in the 80's and the site preserved as a park. I had figured that since it was still heavily wooded with mostly old growth trees, and the mounds themselves would have attracted a lot of traffic in the past-plus the hope maybe the crews destroying the mounds may have dropped items.
As it turned out I only found a couple old shotgun shell cases in the woods dating back to the 1920's era, a copper piece that looks something like a boomerang, another unidentified piece with a threaded point, and another unidentifiable item that looks a bit like a cuff link or brass game piece. Over next to one of the mounds I did manage to find a few clads and 2 wheaties-a 1958D and 1916. I also did find a fired .22 slug buried in a downed tree branch. Apparently it missed the target!
Tuesday morning after work I stopped back at the old church again and found very little. With all the rain lately the low area where I found the only wheaties and the LC were flooded, so I moved over a bit to some higher ground. I have been hunting much more aggressively now at this site and am running near maximum sensitivity and moving much slower. Other than more zinc pennies I did manage to pull a silver Rosie from between a bunch of nails.
51945
The place I found was an old Indian burial grounds with Indian mounds. According to the sign posted at the site stated that in 1929 the mounds had been excavated by archaeologists from the Milwaukee museum. Apparently they must have destroyed the mounds in the process as it stated that they were restored in the 80's and the site preserved as a park. I had figured that since it was still heavily wooded with mostly old growth trees, and the mounds themselves would have attracted a lot of traffic in the past-plus the hope maybe the crews destroying the mounds may have dropped items.
As it turned out I only found a couple old shotgun shell cases in the woods dating back to the 1920's era, a copper piece that looks something like a boomerang, another unidentified piece with a threaded point, and another unidentifiable item that looks a bit like a cuff link or brass game piece. Over next to one of the mounds I did manage to find a few clads and 2 wheaties-a 1958D and 1916. I also did find a fired .22 slug buried in a downed tree branch. Apparently it missed the target!
Tuesday morning after work I stopped back at the old church again and found very little. With all the rain lately the low area where I found the only wheaties and the LC were flooded, so I moved over a bit to some higher ground. I have been hunting much more aggressively now at this site and am running near maximum sensitivity and moving much slower. Other than more zinc pennies I did manage to pull a silver Rosie from between a bunch of nails.
51945