I haven't been out in a while if anyone actually paid attention I haven't been on the forum much either. Just after memorial day I had to put up with something I have been dealing/battling with for almost 10 years now... no, not the significant other. :lol: Then last week after doing the yard work and sharpening the hatchet and axe...I managed to get iron in both eyes. It didn't actually bother me until hours later when the saline caused the iron to rust. The gf mentioned both these things... and said I just can't win. Too bad she doesn't seem to want to set time aside for me to get out to detect. Last Wed I got a a dremel to the eyeball to clear up a rust ring and being healed around Friday. Wed afterward I did actually get about 40 min at a ruin site right off the road for an old mill finding only a big gear and some junk, until the gf complained and wanted to go home. I took her detector out of the car cuz she wasn't finding time to get out with me to detect. Oh, and I was using my sunglasses to manage while detecting. And I know why I didn't find much...the mill site actually existed up until 2006 and was much larger than what the 1868 map showed. I need to go back and hit the area outside the building's "footprint".
Last night I managed to get out to an older park with Bama. The old map doesn't show houses near there, but it could be just a fluke and maybe it would show up on an adjacent town's map showing this town's 'center'. The streets looks the same.. but to have no houses on them. There are a bunch of early 1900s houses with a few Greek revival styles and late 1800s Victorian styles and maybe a few mid 1800s colonials. I hit the park alone before for only an hour and a half finding clad and a dog keychain/bracelet pendant. This time it started out with clad again but Bama managed to find a nice celtic silver ring right on the surface. I was jealous for a bit. When I was swinging over near a sidewalk I was getting some erratic readings. It seemed a large area was like this. I moved over to the other side and was able to depict some zincolns... and not get any erratic signals. Then It hit me that the walk lights were now on. That was probably the source. Back towards some picnic tables I was expecting a bunch of trash...yet somehow I managed to pull a 1919 wheat. Maybe 10 feet away near an old tree I got a mid-high tone. It was a little harder to pinpoint but I managed to pop out two nickels. They were stuck together. It was my first buffalo, and my first V, in the same hole. That point was a bit of redemption. I should have taken a picture of the coins before water touched them cuz the back of the buff turned red as soon as the toothbrush and water hit it. After trying to clean some flaking off the V, the date is now not as prominent even tho the stars are now more visible. The back of the buff looked like the front does, when it came up. Not now....ugh. The buff had a date of 1918 and the V was 1902. Slightly odd variation in dates, but not all that odd apparently. The last item is almost a what is it. Completely different than what I pictured when it was still caked with dirt. I thought the bumps on the surface was similar to the stars around a matron or V. Bama mentioned it could be a feather clamp.
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