Full Metal Digger
11-15-2018, 12:13 PM
Hey diggers,
Yesterday I took a vacation day and went detecting at the 1600's siege site. Tom and Justin were able to join me. I got a faint high tone that sounded pretty sweet. I figured it was a coin or button perhaps. After I had dug down over a foot and still had not reached it I realized it was something big and deep. At 2 feet deep my pin pointer was going crazy but I had to dig another 8 or 10 inches (in HARD sand and rock) to get to the target. When I saw the smooth dome shaped top I knew I had a cannonball! Trying to lift an 18 lb cannonball straight up out of the hole is NOT easy, LOL. I had to make the hole wide enough for both my arms to fit in there too. This is my second cannonball. The other is a 3 lb and it feels like a feather compared to this one! Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.
Yesterday I took a vacation day and went detecting at the 1600's siege site. Tom and Justin were able to join me. I got a faint high tone that sounded pretty sweet. I figured it was a coin or button perhaps. After I had dug down over a foot and still had not reached it I realized it was something big and deep. At 2 feet deep my pin pointer was going crazy but I had to dig another 8 or 10 inches (in HARD sand and rock) to get to the target. When I saw the smooth dome shaped top I knew I had a cannonball! Trying to lift an 18 lb cannonball straight up out of the hole is NOT easy, LOL. I had to make the hole wide enough for both my arms to fit in there too. This is my second cannonball. The other is a 3 lb and it feels like a feather compared to this one! Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.