Really bummed I didn't have my camera with me... but anyway let's get to the story and then pics.
Ahh Private Property, Private Property; oh how I love thee
Finally have time to post this...
so Thursday, I headed to a few home sites in the past that I metal detected last summer. Was hoping on clearing something else from the 1909 V.D.B. house... unfortunately that didn't pan out (the rest of the yard was filled in) but I went to a house across the street I hunted last summer... BAM! Nailed a signal 5 minutes from where I dug a nice spill a couple years ago and managed to find a thin piece of sterling. Started getting dry so I moved on to my FIRST ever permission spot... guy is real nice and found a lead bale seal and that's it. Went to the next house which I knew I didn't go over very throughly, this was right across the street from the last house. Went real slow and got a crappy signal. I dug down 10" !!! to find a coin in the hole!!! It was a buffalo nickel with a clear date (1936, 3rd fty) ... crazy deep, I rescanned the hole with my pinpointer and got another signal... turns out this was the signal I was originally getting, foil at 7". I went around the yard some more, picking up various small targets and relics. Went into a different area of the yard and signals were getting more frequent. I found a new area to detect where they chopped a large section of shrubs. Immediately I got a 69 signal and popped up an Indian Head (#5 fty) and that was pretty much it besides a couple shallow Wheaties that I missed. I'm still wondering how the buffalo got down 10" even though most of the old stuff was down 2" or less... maybe fill dirt?
On Friday I hit up an 1820 house which turned out to be abandoned and COMPLETELY TRASHED.
Saturday I went back for a couple hours and hit the field in front of the house. Was able to recover a few great finds, but targets were awfully slim. My first find was a "first" for me, a .69 cal Civil War bullet. Then I got a flat button and a rivet. After a while I decided to hit another area and pulled a nice .52 cal Sharps then three Wheaties in the same hole. Not bad, always good to pull something civil war!
On Sunday, it was almost 70°, me and my dad did some scouting in an older area about an hour away from us in hopes of colonial and pre civil war relics and coins. First knock no one was home, second one was a beautiful 1750 house… they said "sure but my brothers and sons have pounded this place" and unfortunately, they were moving out and we have to ask the next owner... they still owned the property across the street from the house, about 500 feet away. We tried the fields for an hour and a half and in the first five minutes, I got a beautiful flat button with the threads still intact. Pretty damn cool! Things dried up fast and we moved on. Next house, no one home, next house, no one home, next house… was moved from a different location a short time ago (damn!!!) and then a house where the owners said yes BUT not that day. (they were leaving for business trip) . Got another no-show and then FINALLY as we were about to give up … the lady at a Beautiful 1789 Tavern/Inn (now used as a house of course) said… "Have at it, and show me what you find!"
Tons of fields and pastures had me drooling excessively. Good lord the views are freaking gorgeous here… I put on then big coil and got running into the fields. Almost immediately I start hitting deep signals… there's barely any trash in here! First got a piece of a skeleton key piece, a couple brass flat buttons and then a great seal button. After that I went up a small hill and got am extremely faint mid tone in one direction, then the signal would cut out and disappear in the other... I dug a standard 7" plug and couldn't get the signal with the Pinpointer. Got a sweet high tone signal when I put the detector in the hole and dug a little deeper. That's when I got the signal with the pinpointer in the sidewall. I used the Lesche to pry behind where I was getting the signal and BAM! A large yet thin copper disk peeks from the hole! I was easily 10" down at that point. After that I was getting more signals on the bottom of that hill closer to the house I kept getting old brass. A complete 1904 spoon, a beautiful cameo brooch and a brass wedding band came up. Also got a "Souvenier" pin that looks interesting… if anyone has any ideas what it is/was and where it came from, tell me! Much appreciated! Ended up climbing the hill again heading far away from the house it's self. Was completely off guard when I pulled a gardener bullet super close to the road, about 300 feet from the house. Then as it was getting dark I pulled two ancient lead buttons and a musketball. My last signal of the night as I walked back to the van was just like that large cent I got about an hour ago. Dug down a solid 8" to see a chunk of silver! Did a quick swipe and I saw initials. All this stuff in 90 minutes. After that I was super excited to clean everything when I got home, and see what the large cent was. After a quick rinse, the crud came off and it revealed a ladies bust facing to the left. Draped bust. Unfortunately, it's way too worn to tell a date.
On Monday I got permission to a 1895 house and 1875 house close to me. Unfortunately I couldn't do the 1875 that day but the 1895 looked decent. "It's trashed up" I thought as I first swung the detector. But as I listened more closely, I was able to distiguish trash from treasure. I got my first signal that I knew wasn't surface trash, it was fainter than surface trash. Ended up pulling out a beautiful dog tax tag from 1906-1907. Then I headed towards the front and got a wheatie pretty quickly. After dodging more garbage… I got a fainter garbage signal. Ended up digging down and saw a shiny edge… of GOLD! I wiped the dirt off and noticed it was not only gold, but was Rose Gold, and OLD. (I can tell it was an older style by the prongs) I rubbed the inside hoping for a marking and I saw it. 10K. Yes!!! That's my 8th gold I've ever found AND my first gold ring in almost 2 years!!! I was more than stoked! That's when I thought I had no hope to find the stone so I looked around and I saw something shining in the sunny dirt… it was the stone!!!!! How freaking lucky can I be?!?! I've ever even eyed a marble but I saw that small little stone! I was about to push that dirt back into the hole too! I'm 95% sure it's a CZ, but you never know !!!
About 5 minutes after that gold ring I got another faint foil signal and… yup… ANOTHER indian head (1893 and #7 fty) … man I was shaking badly at this point! I got another faint signal and it turned out to be a dateless buff! That's my fourth buffalo FTY… really weird. I dug only 6 last year and I have 4 already.
On Tuesday (yesterday), I was able to hunt the 1875 house… wait until you see this 1915 D barber quarter I dug out there… gotta be my best conditioned coin I've found! I haven't cleaned anything else besides the barber quarter yet (busy with school work and crap) but I ended up getting my first V Nickel this year at 9" deep, a worn (and scratched) 1912 D Barber Dime, a few Wheaties, a CRAZY spill consisting of a brass pendant, a Mercury Dime, and a War Nickel. Also got a really cool old lock and some type of modern military button.
Thanks for looking guys and HH !!!!!
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Originally Posted by RIdirtdigger
Those are some truly astonishing finds! Man, you've had a great week! 
It's cool you found a couple of civil war era bullets too. Thats one thing I'm yet to uncover. 
