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Just got permission for a 3000+ acre site with at least 4 cellar holes on it. Looking much forward to detecting these sites, but alas, it's a 30 minute drive plus at least a mile hike into the woods, so that will have to happen next week when I have more time. So seeing I only had a few hours...

My youngest son Cole (11 yrs) wanted to go metal detecting today, so off we went to a recent permission site with a small cellar hole close to the road (no hiking involved). This was a good choice since rain shortened our trip after only an hour or so. This site has obviously been hit before...

Hi all, Had the opportunity to invite one of my friends (Peter) over from northern NY this afternoon to the New England side of Lake Champlain to hit a few permission sites I had access to here in the Champlain Valley. Alas, he came away with much better than I (Draped bust 1803 LC and several...

Hey folks, Wondering if anyone out there has any experience detecting around old mineral springs in your area? Doing my customary compiling of potential property sites to hunt this coming spring/summer by combing through historical maps and state GIS parcel/tax data etc. Am curious about some...

Great to see you're learning your brand new toy Jeff! Man, wish I had some unthawed soil to dig...no way up here in northern New England right now. Saw you were wondering how you missed the LC from earlier hunts. You'd be surprised how many small areas we as detectors miss around a site, even...

Hi Tony and Happy Holiday to you and the other great members of the forum, Haven't had too much time to get out since about October, but I'd say my #1 find is an 1865 2 cent piece in decent condition. www.americandetectorist.com/forum/showthread.php?15789-Quick-evening-hunt-yields-a-nice-find...

Went to a new permission site today and sweated out a few pounds along with getting a few battle scars from briars and mosquitoes. This is directly off a public trail, but hidden about 100 yards off the path so was curious if it still had some goodies still lying in wait seeing the trail is...

Had the day off yesterday so decided to hit an area I've been to before. Discovered two new cellar holes, which puts the total number at this site to 8, at least that's how many I've found. Bad news is most of these have hunted pretty good before. Actually found a broken off trowel at one of...

Here's a few more shots if that helps Dan. About as good as I can do with the wife's SLR digital. Looks like it perhaps opened up in the back, but that's all corroded now. John

Got out for about two and a half hours this evening at the place I found the 2 Center last week. Concentrated around where the old privy used to be. Man, tons of old broken bottles. If I have the time and patience, and I'm willing to bust my a..., I'm sure there's some neat stuff lying beneath...

Had about 2 hours this evening to hit a cellar hole I've been to before. This is in a large and heavily accessed public wooded park (~ 600 acres) complete with a 60 acre lake. I've located 7 cellar holes in the park and an old school site and found a few decent things here and there over the...

Working the overnight shifts this week, so won't be out for a hunt until Tue/Wed of next week. Sleep, eat and work...that's about it for me during this period of my shift rotations. Anyhow, here's an interesting item I found at a cellar hole last week...huge site with an interesting...

Hi folks, Went to a couple of cellar holes last week and fought the bugs and nettles/briars for sure. Found a few interesting items, including this whatsit from the second home site. Site dates from before 1857...at least it's there on the map, and went through several owners before being...

Went to some new sites last Friday (a week ago) along an abandoned road (now a snowmobile trail). Several cellar holes, but man were they infested by iron...unreal. My Fisher F2 struggled and I'm sure some of you more seasoned veterans could pull some better stuff out of these sites, but I'll...

Got a chance to hunt for about 2 hours this past Friday morning and headed for a few new cellar holes on my 2014 list. Ugh. Still 4" of snow on the ground, but alas these sites are at 1500' elevation so I went to a fallback site that's been heavily hunted through the years and directly on a...

To the experts out there, I've got a question on finding unmapped cellar holes. I've seen a number of mentions/posts over the past 6 months that describe visiting cellar holes that "aren't on any map" in so many words. I'm just curious how you're finding them. Are you stumbling on them by...

First day out for 2014...finally the snow has melted! At least in the valley here. Can't get to any cellar holes yet (new ones on my list or the old favorites) as snow remains 6-18" in the deeper woods. That will come in a week or two though...gotta let things melt and dry out a bit up there...

So, since more snow is on the way this week and it looks like I might not be able to get out for the first time until April, I thought I'd post one last Whatsit from last fall. Found at an old cellar hole, well...sort of. House was there on an 1857 map, but not abandoned until the...

Here's a few of my finds from late summer/fall of last year. Admittedly kinda limited compared to the "pros" out there, but looking at getting out much more this coming spring/summer. Just gotta wait for those feet of snow to melt! More of my 2013 finds on my album at...

Hi folks, Quick question on albums. I created a new album today (uploaded the photos etc) and it all shows up fine. However, when I click on the pics, they appear very tiny. I re-sized all the originals to 800 x 534 pixels to keep the size within reason. Not sure why they don't appear...