Do you have any friends who are hunters Lou? They often get access to hunt private lands, and may be able to get you access to the land as well for some swinging. A friend of mine has that situation, and after hearing me prattle on about detecting, mentioned seeing an old stone foundation on his hikes out to his territory. Now we're trying to organize a day all of us can go up there and poke around.
And just the past couple days another friend who's a member of a fish & game club (he got a detector as a gift last year, never used it, and has now caught the bug I got from seeing his detector), finally questioned some old stone walls on the club property after hearing my adventures last weekend. He did some poking around on the web about an old dirt road that passes through the club as well, and come to find out it may be the edge of a large agricultural/farming historic district in town dating back to the 1600's.
He printed out a few things at work today, and we're going to do our best to see if we can find any old maps that might show what might have been on that dirt road that passes through the property. At the very least it warrants a walk out there deeper in the woods to see what there is to see. Swinging the detector along that old dirt road is probably a good idea while we're out there.
I'm just getting started as well, and not ready to knock on doors yet. Want to hone my skills a little better before digging old lawns (can't throw a rock without hitting an 1800's or 1700's home in town here) for old coins. That access for the woods hunts is pure luck so far, I still need to learn how to find my own places to run the coil over. Wish I had a summer to poke around, wanna swap jobs? :cheesysmile:
