I've been detecting cellars for about a year and a half and have found basically all of my older coins here. Only recently have I began to get permissions to hunt older homes. Anyway, it seems that just in a year the amount of sites that have been depleted of their resources is astounding. Is it really worth it to spend a winter doing research, hike a mile into the woods, jump over a river, walk up steep hills, only to find that the cellar not on any maps and in the middle of nowhere, yields only a handful of buttons and maybe a large copper. It just doesn't seem worth it. Now, by no means would this mean the end of cellar hunting for me, but older homes seem to have a lot more potential. I don't know why but my preference has always been quantity over quality even when it should be the other way around
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Originally Posted by del
It's always best to have a mix of places. School yards that existed for 90-300 years and still exist today, many people went in and out of those places day in and day out. Parks and greens, same idea. The private property just gives you a little edge over the cellar holes for the fact detecting is regulated, but you still have the modern trash to deal with. You still have the trash that could mask targets just as the iron does at cellar holes. Private property changes hands too, so you can never be sure it wasn't hit by a detectorist before. 
Yes there is always a limited amount of old items in the ground, but seriously can one 8" (or 13" coil or 11" DD or whatever) cover the vast area that exists around cellar holes, not to mention big colonial farms that exist today. Hitting a 35 acre field (or now wooded but once was a field) would take a long time to cover with just one detector, not to mention other variables like detector type and settings. ehh.. Ill stop here. Obvi tho this doesn't serve to negate what you say, it reinforces what you say.
