Sept 27th - I had finally secured permission to detect the lawns of a 1790's colonial. I had detected the surrounding fields a few years ago and had made some nice finds. When I pulled in the driveway my hopes of a good day started to dwindle. The once nicely manicured lawns were a mess and the outlying areas were very overgrown. The house sits about 200' off the dirt road and has a long wrap around driveway. The house actually faces away from the road (so the back yard is the front yard ) Anyways I found an area of tall grass but not to bad to start swinging. About 15 minutes in I got a solid 13-45 in all directions. I put the shovel in the soil and clunk, there was about a half inch of dirt and a lot of shale rocks. Finally dug out a decent hole and ended up with a realy nice 1849 LC. Most of the day was digging junk, struggled with the amount of shale and rocks but did manage to hit for the 1 cent cycle. LC, Indian (1875), Wheatie, & Memorial. Also found a bent up back to a pocket watch.
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on that accomplishment.
that large cent kooks to be in decent shape. Hope to see a pic of it when its cleaned up. 
