West Jersey Detecting
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1840's Home Yields a Nice Token
I was dropping my son off at the movie theater yesterday, and the route took me through a town that dates back to the 1600's. There was a detour on one of the oldest sidestreets, so I stopped on my way home to see if they were tearing up the road. I asked one of the residents what the schedule was and explained my interest in metal detecting the road. She told me her house was built some time prior to 1840 and I was welcome to detect there if I like. Needless to say, I was back with my detector first thing this morning!
When I got there this morning she told me the woman she bought the house from was somehow involved with the Nazis. This woman she bought the home from told her that there are two gold bars buried somewhere on the property as well a Luger pistol. She is not sure if the gold (if it exists) is buried in the yard or under the dirt basement, which would seem more likely.
Well I found a lot of trash as would be expected. The area around the house had iron, iron and more iron. I worked around it as best I could, digging the iffy signals. When I return I will dig more of the iron signals because I am sure it is masking some good targets . I was invited back to detect the dirt basement floor, which I will gladly do. It should be an interesting challenge, and I expect to have the sensitivity and gain as low as possible.
I was basically disappointed in my finds; clad & Memorials, an old lock (any ID on this?) and a few old silver plated spoons (which I gave to her and she was thrilled). I also dug the iron hook thing and some large glass chunks, which you see pictured with a clad quarter to give you an idea of the size. I dug 5 or six of these glass chunks
The only keepers for the day were some Wheaties (oldest is 1936) and the Frankford Trust Company token, which is really neat and once again any ID on the time period is appreciated.
I was dropping my son off at the movie theater yesterday, and the route took me through a town that dates back to the 1600's. There was a detour on one of the oldest sidestreets, so I stopped on my way home to see if they were tearing up the road. I asked one of the residents what the schedule was and explained my interest in metal detecting the road. She told me her house was built some time prior to 1840 and I was welcome to detect there if I like. Needless to say, I was back with my detector first thing this morning!
When I got there this morning she told me the woman she bought the house from was somehow involved with the Nazis. This woman she bought the home from told her that there are two gold bars buried somewhere on the property as well a Luger pistol. She is not sure if the gold (if it exists) is buried in the yard or under the dirt basement, which would seem more likely.
Well I found a lot of trash as would be expected. The area around the house had iron, iron and more iron. I worked around it as best I could, digging the iffy signals. When I return I will dig more of the iron signals because I am sure it is masking some good targets . I was invited back to detect the dirt basement floor, which I will gladly do. It should be an interesting challenge, and I expect to have the sensitivity and gain as low as possible.
I was basically disappointed in my finds; clad & Memorials, an old lock (any ID on this?) and a few old silver plated spoons (which I gave to her and she was thrilled). I also dug the iron hook thing and some large glass chunks, which you see pictured with a clad quarter to give you an idea of the size. I dug 5 or six of these glass chunks
The only keepers for the day were some Wheaties (oldest is 1936) and the Frankford Trust Company token, which is really neat and once again any ID on the time period is appreciated.
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