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Well yesterday (Saturday) I met up with Trooper Bri at 6am to hit a couple of old foundations out in the woods. One particular one that I hit about 12 years ago that I haven't been back to.
We hiked in about an hour :shocked03:before we stumbled on a suspicious looking area and we went into search mode!! after a few minutes i noticed a cabin site in a very over grown area and started detecting . There was quite a bit of trash dumped around the site but quickly i got a nice coin like sound but pretty shallow . Barely at 4 inches i pull up a very brown coin (I almost thought it was a dirty clad quarter :lol
but soon realized it was a bit larger and then seen the bust , thats when i shouted to Brian . "Hey i got a copper" :happydance01: A connecticut copper and after a couple more hours i recovered a few buttons too!
But the site was very over grown and limited to swing so we moved onto the next site .
After another 20 minute hike we reached the old site I detected many many years ago , it was the first time i was back in about 12 or so years .
Its almost land locked in by private property so the long hike is the only way in
. Not long after getting started i did get a couple of buttons but could tell some has been there with in the last year or two by the older dig holes here and there. Despite this i still did alright by getting another coin !:bananadance:This signal was very iffy almost like a deep bent nail even though it read at only 8 inches deep . It bounced around on the vdi like iron does but once in a while i would get an upper 80's vdi but not consistent and the tone wasn't coin like but i dig these signals when i get them . As soon as i open the hole up and remove a few large stones the signal screams copper and then the large green disk pops up :grin: that turned out to be an early matron (1819) .
Brian and I spent most of the day at this site and I did good in the button department and a couple of other brass tinkets .One of the buttons turned out to have some nice gold guilt and an interesting backmark L.H. & S.W.CT. Double Guilt
With time still in the day we left to check on another possible site that we saw on the way to this one . it was a nice large cellar but being on a main road i figured it would be pretty beat . So with about an hour to kill i detected it not expecting much but to my surprise i ad three very high value targets all three were very coin like (one button a large "D" buckle and a huge brass round item ) all were in very obvious spots and shouldn't of been missed . So Brian and I will return to this one and the cabin site soon .
so my keepers (minus the many many shot gun shells and annoying aluminum flat tabs)
the coppers before cleaning
the matron with the front cleaned
the Connecticut is a 1788 (my first of this year) with the front cleaned
and the orange fungus picture is for HEAVYMETALNUT
thanks all for looking !! get out there the weather is really starting cooperate :detecting:
Dan
We hiked in about an hour :shocked03:before we stumbled on a suspicious looking area and we went into search mode!! after a few minutes i noticed a cabin site in a very over grown area and started detecting . There was quite a bit of trash dumped around the site but quickly i got a nice coin like sound but pretty shallow . Barely at 4 inches i pull up a very brown coin (I almost thought it was a dirty clad quarter :lol
but soon realized it was a bit larger and then seen the bust , thats when i shouted to Brian . "Hey i got a copper" :happydance01: A connecticut copper and after a couple more hours i recovered a few buttons too! 
But the site was very over grown and limited to swing so we moved onto the next site .
After another 20 minute hike we reached the old site I detected many many years ago , it was the first time i was back in about 12 or so years .
Its almost land locked in by private property so the long hike is the only way in
. Not long after getting started i did get a couple of buttons but could tell some has been there with in the last year or two by the older dig holes here and there. Despite this i still did alright by getting another coin !:bananadance:This signal was very iffy almost like a deep bent nail even though it read at only 8 inches deep . It bounced around on the vdi like iron does but once in a while i would get an upper 80's vdi but not consistent and the tone wasn't coin like but i dig these signals when i get them . As soon as i open the hole up and remove a few large stones the signal screams copper and then the large green disk pops up :grin: that turned out to be an early matron (1819) .
Brian and I spent most of the day at this site and I did good in the button department and a couple of other brass tinkets .One of the buttons turned out to have some nice gold guilt and an interesting backmark L.H. & S.W.CT. Double Guilt
With time still in the day we left to check on another possible site that we saw on the way to this one . it was a nice large cellar but being on a main road i figured it would be pretty beat . So with about an hour to kill i detected it not expecting much but to my surprise i ad three very high value targets all three were very coin like (one button a large "D" buckle and a huge brass round item ) all were in very obvious spots and shouldn't of been missed . So Brian and I will return to this one and the cabin site soon .
so my keepers (minus the many many shot gun shells and annoying aluminum flat tabs)
the coppers before cleaning
the matron with the front cleaned
the Connecticut is a 1788 (my first of this year) with the front cleaned
and the orange fungus picture is for HEAVYMETALNUT
thanks all for looking !! get out there the weather is really starting cooperate :detecting:
Dan
There is always a fine line between (gently) cleaning and leaving as is. 
