NJKLAGT
Bronze Member
- Oct 18, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
- Garrett Euro Ace 350
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hey Everyone!
Wrong forum, I know, but I wanted to show those of you here. I went back to the burnt-down house site, where I always seem to find something - I've found some amazing bottles, decent coins, that great Regiment of Riflemen button, and all sorts of relics, and this spot has probably become my favourite place to hunt, lots of memories. Anyway, yesterday was no exception. I decided to focus on the walkway leading to the front door (Bass made this suggestion a while back) and although the entire length of the path was littered with iron, I worked very slowly and managed to point out a few coins. I got three pennies along the front walkway: 1912, 1913, and 1915. A tree had grown around one of them, and so I had to wiggle the coin out of the old root, which was pretty cool. In the yard near the front driveway I found my oldest coin yet, an 1888 penny, my first Victoria, I kissed her. So, four coins in a few hours was a pretty good day for me. I'm still hoping for some big old silver! Here's the spread of all the coins that I've found at this site. The coins on the left were found within the foundations (burnt, two are even melted together) and the coins on the right were found outside. Most of the coins are from around 1910-1920, so I think that they probably had more money during this time. I've only found the earliest privy there, but if I can find the later one, I bet it'd be absolutely loaded with bottles! I might just have to bite the bullet and try the grid method, probe up and down until I get lucky. But I'm gonna have to wait until the vegetation settles down a bit.
When digging a signal there was this chisel-shaped stone thing in the hole. Does anyone know what this thing is?
Thanks for looking, good luck and happy hunting,
NJ
Wrong forum, I know, but I wanted to show those of you here. I went back to the burnt-down house site, where I always seem to find something - I've found some amazing bottles, decent coins, that great Regiment of Riflemen button, and all sorts of relics, and this spot has probably become my favourite place to hunt, lots of memories. Anyway, yesterday was no exception. I decided to focus on the walkway leading to the front door (Bass made this suggestion a while back) and although the entire length of the path was littered with iron, I worked very slowly and managed to point out a few coins. I got three pennies along the front walkway: 1912, 1913, and 1915. A tree had grown around one of them, and so I had to wiggle the coin out of the old root, which was pretty cool. In the yard near the front driveway I found my oldest coin yet, an 1888 penny, my first Victoria, I kissed her. So, four coins in a few hours was a pretty good day for me. I'm still hoping for some big old silver! Here's the spread of all the coins that I've found at this site. The coins on the left were found within the foundations (burnt, two are even melted together) and the coins on the right were found outside. Most of the coins are from around 1910-1920, so I think that they probably had more money during this time. I've only found the earliest privy there, but if I can find the later one, I bet it'd be absolutely loaded with bottles! I might just have to bite the bullet and try the grid method, probe up and down until I get lucky. But I'm gonna have to wait until the vegetation settles down a bit.
When digging a signal there was this chisel-shaped stone thing in the hole. Does anyone know what this thing is?
Thanks for looking, good luck and happy hunting,
NJ
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