Recent content by skrapman

On Thursday I was working at an old house (unsure of age ,but post and beam in basement and new upstairs), Ive done work here before so I know the homeowners so I had no problem getting permission to detect. At lunch time I detected out behind the house between three trees that would offer some...

finally got to go out today with my hunting buddy and hit a large center chiminey colonial foundation. We've been there before and I had no intention of detecting around the foundation(already done that) I wanted to hit the old farm fields that are bordered by stone walls. I just happened to...

With the weather threatening all day I decided to stay near the truck just incase.So i hit a 4 acre field I know of. The house was torn down a couple of years ago.There are stone walls all over the place so this must have been a larger farm in it's day. It seems all I was digging today was...

Went out for a few hours today and hit a couple of past sites. I just wanted to get out and enjoy the day. I did find a couple of buttons,one being silver plated. I dont see any spot on the back indicating a shank so I was wondering if it is actually a rosette. The coin is a LC but there is no...

I have the day off today,slow time of year for my occupation, and it snowed. I have never been able to hunt so much as this winter. I guess I shouldn't complain but I am now spoiled. Hopefully the snow will get knocked down by Sat.( rain or not i'm going out.) I see alot of people on line right...

Last month I was searching for an early foundation, and found only a depression in the ground.There were no foundation stones at all,so either someone re-used every one or the house was a log cabin built entirely on wood. I still wasn't positive I had the right spot until 15 min later when I...

Went back to the old house not expecting too much.the construction co. posted the old fields so I wasn't sure if my permission from last week would be valid. I did talk to the home owner and he gave me the go ahead for his property and to park in his driveway. With the rain the other day the...

hello all, Sunday night went to Boston with my hunting buddy and hit up the second oldest public beach in the country. This beach has given up some nice finds over the years. It takes a while to find the shell line after the tide goes out, there is alot of mud/clay and smelly stuff and it seems...

I was wondering if any one had an opinon about the beach hunter 300 with the 12 coil. to me it seems too big and falses too much in fresh water. I was thinking about sending it back and having a 10 coil or 10 DD installed then using the 12 for field hunting on a dfx.Is this a waste of money?. I...

Here are some finds from the old fields of a 1734 house. I secured permission from the factory, and hunted Sunday. Right away I started finding harness buckles. 14 in all. A 1742 georgie,1864 two cent pc. and what i thought was a King George 3rd., but the blank is too large, it has a reeded...

got out of work early today so I headed to a park in worcester, i hunted for 3 hours. I could not believe how much trash was in the ground. :white:usaflag:: Now i remember why I love relic hunting better.Most of the sites we hit were gone before alu. came around. I want to find 50 pieces of...

Hi folks, I could use some help to identify the marks on this spoon. For some reason I can't even find which country :confused:.there is a crown so I figured England but cannot seem to match the marks.Any assistance would be helpful. thanks for looking, mike

What do you do when work gets cancelled at the last minute? Why go detecting. Here are my finds from a cellar hole that I kept putting off because it is so close to the road I thought for sure someone would have hit it. The very first target was the 1837 LC. I found my first complete drawer...

I wanted to send out a sincere thank you to Dan and George for their museum hunt down in Conn. I saw the stamped point they found and i remembered I found the same thing a few years back. I suspected it was a point but could not comfirm. :clapping: I found it by a small stream and I need to go...

I found this spear point my very first year with a dfx. Had i been experienced I never would have dug the choppy signal i recieved. But luck was on my side and at a foot deep(in woods with a large shovel) this was laying at the bottom of the hole. I was in shock but was able to call my wife, had...