Last week wasn't too good for me. Thursday night I went to a local park. The fields were being used for baseball games but I was trying to check the wooded area for an old structure, or at least the depression where it once stood. That proved to be fruitless. It was a bit overgrown. I even put the machine to check for iron as the amount of iron dramatically increases the closer to a structure you are. At some point I decided to give up that place, for the day at least, and head to another park which is more of a honey hole for me. On the way back to the car, tho, a couple of kids were asking me about the detector. They kept asking me to check a few areas. They were fighting each other which can hold the pinpointer and which can hold the shovel. The park was pretty cleaned out, but they kept fighting for the old pull tabs I kept pulling up. Their older brothers were in the baseball game going on and yes their parents checked on them a few times. The only thing was I was the baby sitter, and unpaid at that. One saw my pocket knife tab and said his father has a better one. When I took it out to show him, his mind quickly changed.
The next day I tried to meet up with another person. I went through all the motions and even drove down that way but we never met up. There was no one detecting at the park I made it to and definitely no such vehicle in the lot. I decided to go to a place I noticed while driving a week or so ahead. I knew the large oaks near by were 100+ years old and I did look into the properties near there. Some foundations were filled, but I tried the school across the way on the corner. The building is newer than 1950, but it was on the property of a school older than 1868 and there was a lot of acreage to swing. Lucky I had the modifications to my detector to detect as late as I did. I only did a path near the fences, so maybe only 1/100th the area was checked but nothing much other than clad. Sunday was hot an humid but the on-and-off rain hindered things.
Yesterday Bama had invited me down to a place he knew about. It was kinda 'door knocking' as he met the person somewhere else and detecting was brought up. I picked him up and we went down to the house. I passed the property mostly because the numbering was way messed on opposite sides of the road and I only thought the house looked like early 1900's. I was wrong. Pulling up the driveway and right there is this ginormous maple. It still had the syrup tap in it. It was bigger than the keebler elf tree. I heard of mighty oaks getting over 200 years old, but not maples. I pointed out the old cluster of foundations sharing walls, right there in the center of the property. They must have been original barns, possibly for livestock, but were now gone. The barn standing there is much larger and only a bit newer. It still has dirt floors and the original wood on top. It would be amazing to move the planks (which were never secured) and swing.
My first coin was a 2012 dime. We went around the back, the field, the side and there wasn't much pulled up beyond clad. I got a cybershot near the edge of the field. Luckily the laptop reads the Sony memory stick style. Yes there are some semi-nude photos on there.
As I went back I was getting frustrated at lack of finds. I decided to be less stringent on what I was choosing to dig. I got a hit that was dissappearing a bit more than normal. And I once found an IH next to iron and once a copper next to iron where the signal was more discernable. First out was a nail. When I check again I finaly got some silver. A 1942-D Merc. It's in pretty good shape.
Back around to the field again we didn't get much hits. We didnt understand it. They don't fill a field area. Bama said in an arial view the field does get turned even tho it is used for hay. I pointed out this pathway which I knew to be where the farm equipment and cattle went through to enter the field. He agreed. I pulled up a 1956 license plate with the registration tag still on it. My neighbor works in law enforcement so Idk if possible to find out who owned it and what it went on. Maybe the year sticks in my mind for Studebaker. Possibly packard. Just a little ways later I got a pin like item. This is another what is it. He saw the back and said it seemed like a ribbon went through it. I know it's not a pin item as the back piece is molded to it on both sides, and it's angled to one side for some reason. The farm was not a cattle farm, i.e. no best in class ribbons.
I found some ceramic item. It's pretty thin. And then an iron loop item. It is due for some electrolosys. Maybe someone knows what it went to. Not sure if it was part of horse reigns. Back up near where I found the modern dime I got another stange hit. And just like the last one I pulled out iron in the hole and then found the item. Now this is my oldest merc at 1919. First I was pulling up hotrocks. It's a little worn. The last item I pulled up was some slag. It looks like hot iron was hot and then thrown into dirt. It sets off the detector and pinpointer.
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on all your keepers and especially the 2 mercs.
Originally Posted by Digger Don
