Midden-marauder
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- Dec 10, 2023
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I haven't been around in a while, mostly been up in the woods watching spring unfold, some solid coin hunting down in the city with a few minor non-coin finds but nothing I care to report on.
This however was unexpected: we were hiking up in the lower slopes and we located a dumping ground randomly in a dry creek bed. Deeper investigation of the site revealed about a million rusty old cans both on the surface and below. I probed with my 13" flathead screwdriver feeling for glass and use of the detector showed that every single square inch of the area had metal in it, no place without a strong signal. Even my cellphone magnetometer was reacting to all the iron in the ground! If anything the detector helped to define the physical parameters of the dump. We had limited time as a storm was rolling in so we had minimal time to excavate, we will be back to the site soon, it looks promising. Trying to find a timeline for the location.
This old can is what I'm hoping to find info on, it's clearly older, online searches give only "vintage" as a description so I'm hoping one of you can help me tighten it down to at least a given decade. My suspicion is 1950s but not sure.
Do any of you have an idea what time frame this old Phillips 66 can is from? If you can help me out that'd be great!
This however was unexpected: we were hiking up in the lower slopes and we located a dumping ground randomly in a dry creek bed. Deeper investigation of the site revealed about a million rusty old cans both on the surface and below. I probed with my 13" flathead screwdriver feeling for glass and use of the detector showed that every single square inch of the area had metal in it, no place without a strong signal. Even my cellphone magnetometer was reacting to all the iron in the ground! If anything the detector helped to define the physical parameters of the dump. We had limited time as a storm was rolling in so we had minimal time to excavate, we will be back to the site soon, it looks promising. Trying to find a timeline for the location.
This old can is what I'm hoping to find info on, it's clearly older, online searches give only "vintage" as a description so I'm hoping one of you can help me tighten it down to at least a given decade. My suspicion is 1950s but not sure.
Do any of you have an idea what time frame this old Phillips 66 can is from? If you can help me out that'd be great!
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