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After school on Monday I headed to CT to meet up with Isaac, Sam and Sam’s friend to do some detecting at cellar holes and old houses. Isaac and Sam had already hit a few sites with Sam getting an Indian head, a sweet RI button and other things and Isaac getting a shoe buckle fragment and a flat...

Saturday was my first day detecting in the woods since January. I had just gotten back from a week long trip to Phoenix, Arizona visiting family so I was anxious to start digging in the dirt. I headed out to place where a old home site used to be about 5 minutes away from my house. The place is...

A ton of snow has melted in southern RI this past week and tempuratures have been in the mid 40's -lower 50's so I decided to try and do some detecting. On Monday I took the AT pro to a local place after school to find the ground frozen :(, so I headed to the beach instead. After a little bit on...

Finally overcame my fear of door knocking today, and tried to get my first permission to a pre 1800 house. (house was 1782) Well I got rejected for "personal reasons". They guy was very nice and also told me people have asked before. I wonder if there is a cache or something very very personal...

Hi everyone. I was wondering if anyone has ever encountered a very old well in the middle of the woods but no cellar hole or "cabin site" nearby. A few spots I intend to hit this year have only a well and no cellar hole in plain site. I am hoping for them to produce. The last time I hit a "cabin...

The extended forecast for my area and most of southern New England calls for temperatures to rise above 32 degrees in March. That means melting snow and thawing ground. I am patiently waiting to take my detector into the woods for the first time in over a month. Thankfully Southern RI has been...

I found this last year at one of my most productive colonial cellar holes. What is it? I've seen it posted before on here but I have no clue what it is or what its purpose was for.

So much snow has fallen in such a short period of time and although I may have only 8 inches in Southern RI, most of Rhode Island still has well over a foot. Massachusetts and Connecticut have 2-3 and even 4 feet in many areas. More substantial amounts of snow are on the way as well. The...

New England is full of old cellar holes. They are my favorite place to detect but why were they abandoned in the first place? Other than obvious reasons like fire, land condemnation, and the family dieing out, why would someone abandon an ideal home? And what happened to the house itself? Was it...

Here are my best and favorite finds from 2014. I had a great year and can't wait to resume detecting in 2015 once the snow melts, :frozen: and the ground thaws. Hopefully everyone enjoys this year end round up.

I headed out with Sam C yesterday to hit the cellar I went to on New Years eve day with Isaac, Sam, and Sam's friend. The ground was frozen solid in many areas which made digging very tough. Occasionally I had to use my shovel as a pick axe to get to signals which usually turned out to be shot...

I hope nobody has ever called an archaeologist because they found a 1964 penny. I have feeling that would only get them ridiculed for wasting someones time.

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I recently was given permission to hunt a property with over 5 acres of historical farmfields on it. The house was only built in 1997 so I assumed most of the stuff around the house would be very modern. This assumption turned out to be very wrong. So I headed out to the around 11:30 am on...

I woke up extremely early on December 31 to drive to CT to pick up Isaac and bring him to MA for a group hunt with Sam and one of his friends. Sam and his friend has found a lightly traveled hiking trail recently that had a cellar hole on it. They had found quite a few things and had only...

I headed out to CT to hunt with Isaac again on Sunday. We hit up a cellar very deep in the woods. It took us a while to find it but there the cellar was eventually right on top of a hill. Right away we noticed fresh dig holes everywhere, very messy and open, looks like somebody beat us by a...

Headed out to a local park for a few hours today. Another metal detectorist showed up while I was detecting. I wasn't finding much so I soon left for another location. The spot I went to has been pounded by almost every single machine so I wasn't expecting to find much. I have found 3 silver...

Isaac, Sam, and I had been planning to do a group hunt when Isaac arrived in CT in December. Yesterday we followed through with those plans. I woke up very early and was on the road before the first light arriving at Isaac's house in CT before 8 am. After some brief chit-chat and meeting and...