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These pics represent my last frozen outings of 2013, on Dec 30th and 31st!! Even though the temps were in the 20's I ended up with two successful outings. Why was I out the last two days of the year detecting in crazy conditions? My detecting club has an annual scavenger hunt with 4 different...

Here are my weekend finds. The first group is from a new site and friend and I went to, an old ball field surrounded by a ton of old houses. It was obviously pounded, all the wheats we found were deep. I found a corner of the field that was less touched an netted a majority of my finds there...

These pics represent my first outing at a new home site, residential still in use. Pretty neat mix of stuff here. Also got a nice case of Poison Ivy from this site! This hunt dates back a bit, just never got around to posting the pics. Enjoy.

In case you missed my first post that covered visits 1-4 to a new site, here is the link: http://www.americandetectorist.com/forum/index.php?topic=14562.0 This post reflects a 3-4 hour hunt, my fifth visit to this site. I headed back to the sweet spot and continued my dig everything campaign. I...

So a friend and I began exploring an unused area of an older park. The first trip netted almost 60 wheat penny's and 6 silver coins. We had been hunting with heavy discrimination, only digging high end signals. (the area is extremely trashy, TONS of screw caps) We were a bit taken aback by how...

These are finds from a couple weeks ago I just got around to taking pictures of. I've found a ton of those garter buckles, but never one that said Victoria on it. I wonder if it's linked to Victoria Secrets Just about struck out getting a 1909S VDB wheatie, but all told this site has yielded 30+...

So yesterday a member of my detecting club invited a bunch of us out to a site with a bunch of cellar holes. In all there were around 10 of us and we had a blast. Highlights include a VT Copper, Mass Copper, CT Copper, 3 US LC's, a William III half penny dated 1700, half real, and a half dime...

Last Sunday I hit a new property, very cool owner. The land used to hold 2 out buildings from the late 1600's then they were converted into a house around 1905. I believe this is why I had such a wide range of relics. I have never found such nice detailed KG's before. I found the KG I under a...

Different dates and different sites, an assortment of some of my recent finds. My 1st Flying Eagle, 185:dontknow:/b], the picture doesn't do it justice, it looks like it was dropped the day it was minted. Just the corrosion/patina didn't take very well. Colonial cuff link - I didn't realize...

I went out after work the other day and found an assortment of items. The most interesting appears to be some sort of Naval badge. Most of the time when I find these thin molded copper items they usually date into the mid 1800's. I'm not sure about this one though. I was not able to find any...

Yesterday I decided to go exploring in some state forest area that was near some older home sites. Overall it was a tough day. Normally in Connecticut you can count 1 old brass shotgun shell every 10 minutes or so. Well unfortunately in this area they must be stocking as I personally dug 15+ new...

I finally confirmed that I had permission to detect the yard around an old house I had previously been given permission to detect the woods surrounding it. I had little luck in the woods due to the overgrowth and thorn bushes! As I suspected, the yard yielded better results. The coolest was a 2...

Yesterday and friend and I went out to explore some woods. He had been there once before and had found a buffalo nickel. We though if we follow an old overgrown road it could yield some good results. Unfortunately 1.5 hours later and almost 20 shotgun shells between the two of us we had nothing...

So last weekend I went out with a friend to some state land that used to house an old homestead. Now it is just open space that gets mowed throughout the season. It was a good day, my friend found a walking half, and a merc, and I found one in a nice shape as well. However, the most...

I found what appears to be a small, lead and copper printing plate. It was found in Connecticut, but pretty far away from Yale, NE CT. It is around the size of a US quarter. The outside letters appear to be a lead alloy, the oval center looks to be a copper engraving. The Letters say Yale...

So, I started detecting in 2008, I didn't get my first silver jewelry until well into 2009. After I broke the silver seal I seemed to get at last 5-6 pieces of silver jewelry a year. It wasn't until 2011 that I finally broke the gold seal and found my first piece of gold, a small child's...

Yesterday a couple of friends and I went to an older park and ventured off into an abandoned picnic grove. We've hit this site plenty in the past but it keeps on giving! My first target was the 1899 Barber dime, it was maybe 6-7 deep. It was in an area I know people have gone over, and it was a...

So I received permission to detect a friends house, a mid 1700's cape with an 1950's addition. It's on 5 acres, with another 20 acres of fields. Here's a link to my first post and the finds from my first few visits...

I just recently acquired permission to detect a rather large private property with a house dating back into the mid 1700's. A pretty historic site, not only does it have a nice house with an acre or two of lawn, it has two huge barns, plus about 15-20 acres of fields that get hayed. Needless to...

So I snuck out for a couple hours on Easter and managed to score this BEAUTIFUL Gimmel ring. I had never heard of these before I found this. Doing the research on it was pretty fun. Apparently these type of rings started up in the 1500's, later in the 1700's the Irish Claddagh rings came about...