tnt-hunter
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- Mountain Maryland
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1
I went to the local sport complex I visited a few weeks ago. It was 28 degrees and sunny so the temp went up to 42. The ground was partly thawed, crusty in spots and solid in others with snow covering about 40% of the ground. I spent 4 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 46 coins with a face value of $3.01, a wheatie, part of an inflation needle, part of a Barbasol tube, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps and 4 tabs. Most of the ground was silent, not even iron signals. I have covered a large portion of the park, but people are always loosing stuff and in the past I have found fresh silver drops so you always go and hope for the best.
The most interest thing was the Barbasol tube. This one looks to me like it was from the 1940s.
DAY 2
I went out hoping to find some thawed ground at another park. It was 30 and cloudy with high winds. The first park I went to was 90 percent frozen so I went to another one and it was about the same. I didn’t have another spot that looked promising with the current weather conditions so I decided to go home. As I was getting back to the truck I noticed something shiny in the gravel of the parking area. This is what I picked up.
A nice little 14k gold earring. It is hollow and was crushed from being run over, but gold is always nice. It doesn’t weigh much, but with the current price of gold it may cover the cost of gas for the day. It will not be counted in my detecting totals for the year because I didn’t even get the detector out of the truck. Just another eyeball find I would class as a non detector find.
DAY 3
I went to a set of sports fields to the south that were about 90 percent thawed with a few snow spots here and there. There was a high wind warning out and the weather man got it right. The gusts were so hard it nearly blew me down several times and I had to keep a good hold on my bucket lid so it didn’t blow into the next county.
I have found a decent number of oldies and some silver and gold on these fields. I was going for some newer losses and hoping an oldie would turn up. Nothing great, but a couple of oldies did put in an appearance.
I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 53 coins with a face value of $3.65, a Matchbox tank, 2 buttons, a wheatie (1955), an aluminum ring, a shell casing, a cross, a zipper pull, a key, 2 railroad spikes, a stirrup, aluminum fence wire, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps and 11 tabs.
The silver plated dome looked interesting coming out of the ground in a section near where the original log cabin sat. (It was built in 1790 and burned down in the 1930s.) When I got the dome back to the house and cleaned it up I could see where the shank had been and the word PLATED on the inside so it is a convex button. In the same area a few minutes later the fancy button came out of the ground. Again shankless but a nice fancy button. It is different from most of the flat buttons I have found. This one looks like it was stamped instead of molded. The front and back are positive and negative of the same pattern.
I found the stirrup right where the cabin sat. I have found a few like it on line attributed to the civil war. I have found civil war bullets, buttons and coins from that time period here so it is possible this is from the civil war, but I can’t be sure. So many mounted troops fought in the war, from all over the country so there were a large variety of stirrups used. No way to tell for sure.
DAY 4
I went to the Indian head penny field, but the ground was still frozen so I had to go back to the set of sports fields I did on Day 3. It was sunny and 44 degrees with no wind so a nice day to be out swingin. I covered some different parts looking for goodies. I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 82 coins with a face value of $4.55, some cheapie jewelry, a screw in cleat, a jeans fastener, some old brass items, aluminum bottle caps, aluminum cans, can slaw, a big batch of aluminum fence wire and 20 tabs.
The brass items look old. The decorative piece has a ferrous rod going into the base. It is mashed sideways like it was run over during the creation of the playing fields. It was probably the decorative top of an iron fence or gate. Probably not extremely old.
The second piece looks like the end of a flashlight or a jar top that had a glass insert. The flashlights I have seen all seem to be chromed brass. This might be old enough that all the chrome has come off, but it could be something else all together.
Item 3 is made like the valve part of a barrel tap. It is larger than any I have seen and it does not have a handle. The top piece is designed to be turned by a wrench so it is probably part of an in line valve. Not new, but not extremely old either.
The 3 small broken pieces all came out of the same hole. I recognized what they were when the first piece came out of the hole. They are part of a conestoga type bell. I have never found a complete one, lots of croatal bells, but only pieces of these. I used tape on the back to put the pieces back together so you could get a look at the shape of the bell. I spent awhile searching for more pieces, but no luck. This poor thing probably got broken up and scattered all over the fields were made. This chunk got run over and crushed so it broke into the 3 pieces I found. These are probably the best finds of the day.
Nothing great, but some interesting things to keep me going. This park needs some more effort because older stuff is still popping up. The only problem is all the mid tone junk you have to dig to get the mid tone treasures.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
My wife and I were walking on the residential part of Main Street and I spotted a small pink box on the side of the road where the snow had melted. It was frozen shut, but with some effort I opened it and saw 2 necklaces inside. One is a cheapie that has a chain that sticks to a magnet. The other is still attached to the cardboard in the box. It is 14k gold plated silver with CZs. It probably sold on sale at Christmas for $15 to $20 new.
I did find a penny in one of the coinstar machines I checked and $0.54 in the coin return at Wally World. Not a lot, but it adds up and you won’t find it if you don’t check.
This is the first week of detecting I have had in a while and my arthritic shoulders were telling me I was out of shape. An old friend used to say “Getting old isn’t for whimps”. So you suck it up and keep going. Next week it will be better and the week after that it will be like I don’t have any time off at all. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
I went to the local sport complex I visited a few weeks ago. It was 28 degrees and sunny so the temp went up to 42. The ground was partly thawed, crusty in spots and solid in others with snow covering about 40% of the ground. I spent 4 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 46 coins with a face value of $3.01, a wheatie, part of an inflation needle, part of a Barbasol tube, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps and 4 tabs. Most of the ground was silent, not even iron signals. I have covered a large portion of the park, but people are always loosing stuff and in the past I have found fresh silver drops so you always go and hope for the best.
The most interest thing was the Barbasol tube. This one looks to me like it was from the 1940s.
DAY 2
I went out hoping to find some thawed ground at another park. It was 30 and cloudy with high winds. The first park I went to was 90 percent frozen so I went to another one and it was about the same. I didn’t have another spot that looked promising with the current weather conditions so I decided to go home. As I was getting back to the truck I noticed something shiny in the gravel of the parking area. This is what I picked up.
A nice little 14k gold earring. It is hollow and was crushed from being run over, but gold is always nice. It doesn’t weigh much, but with the current price of gold it may cover the cost of gas for the day. It will not be counted in my detecting totals for the year because I didn’t even get the detector out of the truck. Just another eyeball find I would class as a non detector find.
DAY 3
I went to a set of sports fields to the south that were about 90 percent thawed with a few snow spots here and there. There was a high wind warning out and the weather man got it right. The gusts were so hard it nearly blew me down several times and I had to keep a good hold on my bucket lid so it didn’t blow into the next county.
I have found a decent number of oldies and some silver and gold on these fields. I was going for some newer losses and hoping an oldie would turn up. Nothing great, but a couple of oldies did put in an appearance.
I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 53 coins with a face value of $3.65, a Matchbox tank, 2 buttons, a wheatie (1955), an aluminum ring, a shell casing, a cross, a zipper pull, a key, 2 railroad spikes, a stirrup, aluminum fence wire, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps and 11 tabs.
The silver plated dome looked interesting coming out of the ground in a section near where the original log cabin sat. (It was built in 1790 and burned down in the 1930s.) When I got the dome back to the house and cleaned it up I could see where the shank had been and the word PLATED on the inside so it is a convex button. In the same area a few minutes later the fancy button came out of the ground. Again shankless but a nice fancy button. It is different from most of the flat buttons I have found. This one looks like it was stamped instead of molded. The front and back are positive and negative of the same pattern.
I found the stirrup right where the cabin sat. I have found a few like it on line attributed to the civil war. I have found civil war bullets, buttons and coins from that time period here so it is possible this is from the civil war, but I can’t be sure. So many mounted troops fought in the war, from all over the country so there were a large variety of stirrups used. No way to tell for sure.
DAY 4
I went to the Indian head penny field, but the ground was still frozen so I had to go back to the set of sports fields I did on Day 3. It was sunny and 44 degrees with no wind so a nice day to be out swingin. I covered some different parts looking for goodies. I spent 5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 82 coins with a face value of $4.55, some cheapie jewelry, a screw in cleat, a jeans fastener, some old brass items, aluminum bottle caps, aluminum cans, can slaw, a big batch of aluminum fence wire and 20 tabs.
The brass items look old. The decorative piece has a ferrous rod going into the base. It is mashed sideways like it was run over during the creation of the playing fields. It was probably the decorative top of an iron fence or gate. Probably not extremely old.
The second piece looks like the end of a flashlight or a jar top that had a glass insert. The flashlights I have seen all seem to be chromed brass. This might be old enough that all the chrome has come off, but it could be something else all together.
Item 3 is made like the valve part of a barrel tap. It is larger than any I have seen and it does not have a handle. The top piece is designed to be turned by a wrench so it is probably part of an in line valve. Not new, but not extremely old either.
The 3 small broken pieces all came out of the same hole. I recognized what they were when the first piece came out of the hole. They are part of a conestoga type bell. I have never found a complete one, lots of croatal bells, but only pieces of these. I used tape on the back to put the pieces back together so you could get a look at the shape of the bell. I spent awhile searching for more pieces, but no luck. This poor thing probably got broken up and scattered all over the fields were made. This chunk got run over and crushed so it broke into the 3 pieces I found. These are probably the best finds of the day.
Nothing great, but some interesting things to keep me going. This park needs some more effort because older stuff is still popping up. The only problem is all the mid tone junk you have to dig to get the mid tone treasures.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
My wife and I were walking on the residential part of Main Street and I spotted a small pink box on the side of the road where the snow had melted. It was frozen shut, but with some effort I opened it and saw 2 necklaces inside. One is a cheapie that has a chain that sticks to a magnet. The other is still attached to the cardboard in the box. It is 14k gold plated silver with CZs. It probably sold on sale at Christmas for $15 to $20 new.
I did find a penny in one of the coinstar machines I checked and $0.54 in the coin return at Wally World. Not a lot, but it adds up and you won’t find it if you don’t check.
This is the first week of detecting I have had in a while and my arthritic shoulders were telling me I was out of shape. An old friend used to say “Getting old isn’t for whimps”. So you suck it up and keep going. Next week it will be better and the week after that it will be like I don’t have any time off at all. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
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