I ventured out Friday with Donnie B. and Trooper Bri in the cold drizzly rain :badday:( seems like Donnie brings the rain whenever he comes up :lol:;)) . We had a good time despite the weather as we had about 4 colonial cellar sites to investigate . As soon as we get to the first site my large sef coil doesn't want to air balance which is very odd :eyebrow:. I go through all the steps to get it straight but to no avail its got a problem :mad::bangahead02::bangahead02:. Donnie , steps up and says he had an extra 6x10 with his other machine :cheering:my hero for the day :cheering:So I put that one on and not 5 minutes later i get a mixed iron signal near the cellar "lip" . Now a "mixed iron" signal to me is a an iron grunt or chatter with that faint chirp or bright tail end "tone" sound , its hard to describe but using a machine long enough you can definitely pick up the nuances :yes:. I knew it was something decent laying in the iron and about 4 inches down a large green copper pops out :happydance01::bananadance:.A few feet away i get another iron mixed signal and hit half of a brass shoe buckle frame again mixed in the nails of the lip :thumbsup02:.
It seemed all the targets were right around the cellar hole , targets all masked or partially hidden by the iron . As it was very quiet further out so someone detected it but wasn't very good in the iron or had a machine with limited discrimination features.
The next site was an area that looked good for a cabin or mill site , it was a large over grown set of fields and stone walls . Targets were very sparse but i did get an old axe head (probably from the 1920's) and a very unexpected find. It gave me a great signal +77 but pretty shallow :shocked03:(2 1/2 inches ) and when i got it out Is convinced i was looking at the back of a barer dime.I was pleasantly surprised to see a seated liberty :happy:. Apparently it was just a random drop and there were really no other finds around and we moved on .
The next site was a very secluded hill top cellar that looked like it was just loaded with goodies :shocked05:. But after 15 minutes of swinging it was apparent that it had been very heavily detected as I found no period type targets .:girlcry:
By this time is getting past 1pm and since turning out clocks back daylight is pretty short . so we hit one other site that also looked great with lots of walls , fields and animal pens. The cellar looked good but again some had beaten us to it , all i got was modern junk metal and lead scraps or shotgun shells .
I want to thank Donnie for stepping up and saving my day with the extra coil :notworthy:.
Dan
