McCDig
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- Jan 31, 2015
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- Fisher F75
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- Metal Detecting
Got to leave work mid-afternoon and was unprepared with clothes to detect in, but went anyway. Had an extra hooded jacket and grabbed a plastic bag to kneel on for extractions to make another stab at Druid Hill Park in Baltimore.
First two good targets were a wheat and a no-date Buff, then it got interesting. Following up on a deep 18 on the Equinox turned up a deep (9 inches) flat button, shown here with the Buff
.
Got a wheat or two and then an Indian; this was the first of two for the hunt; the 1898 came first and then the 1897, but more of that second one later
.
Not far from Indian #1, a high-tone target turned out to be an intact cuff-link
.
By now the sun had set but I moved on and got a broken high-tone jumping into the 30s but not as high as deep iron and definitely reproducible in both directions. Now most of these targets showed no pinpointer response with plug removed. 3-4 more inches of soil had to removed to find the targets. This one showed up to be silver and some careful soil removal revealed a seated dime, shown here with the second silver, just 6 feet away, a Barber dime
. The second IHC, the 1897, was just about a foot away from the seated. A little more detecting yielded nothing else other than nails but......what a hunt. Total hunt time was about 1.5 hours and goes to show that you never know what will turn up next here and there are still some older silvers and IHCs to be had.
Here the wrap-up at home afterwards,
First two good targets were a wheat and a no-date Buff, then it got interesting. Following up on a deep 18 on the Equinox turned up a deep (9 inches) flat button, shown here with the Buff
.Got a wheat or two and then an Indian; this was the first of two for the hunt; the 1898 came first and then the 1897, but more of that second one later
.Not far from Indian #1, a high-tone target turned out to be an intact cuff-link
.By now the sun had set but I moved on and got a broken high-tone jumping into the 30s but not as high as deep iron and definitely reproducible in both directions. Now most of these targets showed no pinpointer response with plug removed. 3-4 more inches of soil had to removed to find the targets. This one showed up to be silver and some careful soil removal revealed a seated dime, shown here with the second silver, just 6 feet away, a Barber dime
. The second IHC, the 1897, was just about a foot away from the seated. A little more detecting yielded nothing else other than nails but......what a hunt. Total hunt time was about 1.5 hours and goes to show that you never know what will turn up next here and there are still some older silvers and IHCs to be had.Here the wrap-up at home afterwards,
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