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Checked behind a pile of rocks and found this: Was surprised it was all in one piece. If it was right-side-up, water would have gotten into and busted it when it froze. I think it's a mid 1800's stoneware beer bottle ?? Jeff

Trying out a new coil at some old sites. Managed to sniff out a deep Matron Head and an on edge dandy. Also the remains of a bone-handled fork and a beaver tail. Woods are staring to fill in. Lots of young poison ivy.

Picked up a new coil and wanted to try it out before it gets too hot and gross (once it gets above 65 degrees I start complaining). Hiked to my "test" site where there are no easy finds to be had to see what the new coil could do. The site was true to form and only gave up a super deep musket...

Finds from last couple of hunts. Trying out some different schemes in the iron beds. Managed a KG III Hibernia yesterday. There is deep stuff hiding in the iron if you have the patience. HH, Jeff

Hiked out to a colonial era spot that I hadn't been to several years. You can see in the pic below why I haven't been there in a while. The site is TOUGH to hunt. Very thick. There is a cellar hole just beyond that tangle of vines. It had only gotten thicker over the years. Just a few small...

Hiked into one of my remote sites for some peace and quiet Sunday morning. Worked the iron laden spots to see what I could wrangle out of the ground. Managed a few buttons, buckle frame etc. Fancy tombac on the right. Looks like the "X" was added by the owner. On the hike out I stumbled...

A reminder to check those nooks and crannies.....especially the crannies....for ticks. I am usually very diligent in checking for ticks when I get back home from detecting. I was out in the woods a couple of weeks ago and I missed one during my post hike tick check. I found it 3 days later. The...

It had been a couple of months since I had gotten out into the woods to do some detecting and I needed a fix badly. The weather report showed a few hour window in the morning before the rains moved in. After a nice little 30 minute hike I was at the site. Expectations were low since this site...

Day didn't start off well. I had planned to get out by 05:30 to hike to some favorite remote sites to see what I could sniff out with the high frequency coil but I over slept 2 hours. Then as I was getting ready to head out the door I noticed my cell phone was almost dead. Not sure what happened...

Funny how that goes. Hadn't found a farthing in many years then I find one in back to back hunts. Felt good to get out, it's been a while. Though, now that temps are in the 70's, I am wishing they were back in the 20's :) . I am liking the high frequency coil I got for the Deus. Jeff

Picked up a High Frequency coil for my Deus a couple of weeks ago to see if I could pull any more goodies from my old sites. Last week I managed some buttons. Those high frequencies hit those lower conductors like those small tombacs pretty hard. Yesterday I managed to sniff out a farthing...

Hiked out to a site over the weekend that I hadn't been to in a while. I had the big coil with me as the plan was to look for deep goodies. Was bummed to see someone had felled most of the trees at the site and it was tough to swing the big coil. Managed a smooth KG, a home made serrated knife...

Admins, for the last couple of days, it takes me forever to open up the AD site. My Sophos antivirus software keeps giving me the message below. You may want to check the site for malware. Thanks, Jeff 20180405 210241 Blocked web request to "allfontshere.press/fonts/courier3.js" (linked from...

You have to hand to AKS. They weren't going to sit back and let the Equinox corner the market. They just rolled out the "Perfessional" model. Take that Minelab !

I needed a good hike badly so I got out early Saturday early and took the long way in to an old site. When I got back to my car my GPS software said I had hiked 6 miles but it felt like 60 miles. :shocked01: I managed a tombac and a nice dandy from the lip of the cellar hole and was poking...

I needed a good hike so I headed to one of my favorite remote sites. Managed a shoe buckle from a rock pile. Chape and tongue were with it too. Tongue was brass but the chape was iron. Sniffed out a few buttons and some lead too. Best find of the day : My hat! Lost it about 4 months...

My sweetheart of a wife got me this book as a birthday present. Tons of great info on all aspects of relic hunting. Beautiful pics too. If you followed Bill Dancy at all on one of the other forums, then you know the incredible items he has detected or excavated in the Virginia Tidewater area. It...

I thought it was a fancy saddle rosette until I recently cleaned it up a bit. As I brushed away layers of crud, the outline of a sailing ship came into view. Further cleaning of the ribbon below the ship revealed it was the Niagara! This was a famous ship in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of...

I decided to part with my DFX. I was keeping it as a back up to my Deus, but now that I have a second Deus coil, I really don't need to hang on to my DFX as a spare machine. The DFX is well used but works fine. I did have it tuned up at Whites a some years back and they replaced the whole screen...

Jeff