Jason in Enid
10-21-2010, 07:59 PM
My last post was about my #3 hunt. Yesterday was hunt #4, but all I found was more clad and 3 or 4 more wheats so I didn't bother to post.
Today, hunt #5.... I continued working my way outward from the pool I started on 3 days ago. I have finally gotten away from the circus of pennies, so I am digging fewer coins, but I can cover more ground in search of silver. Today the hunt paid off again. Not a coin, but really cool necklace and pendent. To start, the signal was funky but it was away from any iron. It jumped around from 11-42 to 12-45 to 8-44 and everything in that zone. Depth reading was about 5 inches. I was hoping it was a silver half of maybe a silver spill. After I cleaned out the inital hole I found the target in the dirt pile, as I slowly moved layers of soil away with my Sun-Ray probe, I saw a glint of silver smile up at me. I reached down to pick it up and watched as a fine silver chain was left dangling from my hand. This was my first necklace I have every dug. As I cleaned the dirt away I saw a silver lily pendant, slightly smaller than a dime. I could see it was thick and heavy, but waited until I got back to my room to clean it off. What I have is a religious, 3-way, flat-sliding pendent with a lily on each side. One lily side has what looks like a knight or spanish conquistador on the inside. The other lily side has a Saint Mary type of image on its inside. The center part has a faint image of a standing, robed figure on one side and an M with a cross above it and what may be 2 hearts below it, surrounded by 12 stars. One of the lilies is stamped sterling, although I could tell that when I dug it.
OK, sorry for the long explanation, but I can't post pics yet. I also dug several more wheaties, confirming that I need to stay in this area, so I will be hunting another side of the pool starting tomorrow.
Thanks for reading!
Today, hunt #5.... I continued working my way outward from the pool I started on 3 days ago. I have finally gotten away from the circus of pennies, so I am digging fewer coins, but I can cover more ground in search of silver. Today the hunt paid off again. Not a coin, but really cool necklace and pendent. To start, the signal was funky but it was away from any iron. It jumped around from 11-42 to 12-45 to 8-44 and everything in that zone. Depth reading was about 5 inches. I was hoping it was a silver half of maybe a silver spill. After I cleaned out the inital hole I found the target in the dirt pile, as I slowly moved layers of soil away with my Sun-Ray probe, I saw a glint of silver smile up at me. I reached down to pick it up and watched as a fine silver chain was left dangling from my hand. This was my first necklace I have every dug. As I cleaned the dirt away I saw a silver lily pendant, slightly smaller than a dime. I could see it was thick and heavy, but waited until I got back to my room to clean it off. What I have is a religious, 3-way, flat-sliding pendent with a lily on each side. One lily side has what looks like a knight or spanish conquistador on the inside. The other lily side has a Saint Mary type of image on its inside. The center part has a faint image of a standing, robed figure on one side and an M with a cross above it and what may be 2 hearts below it, surrounded by 12 stars. One of the lilies is stamped sterling, although I could tell that when I dug it.
OK, sorry for the long explanation, but I can't post pics yet. I also dug several more wheaties, confirming that I need to stay in this area, so I will be hunting another side of the pool starting tomorrow.
Thanks for reading!