Kosh
Jr. Member
- Dec 4, 2011
- 28
- 2
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett GTP 1350
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
My buddy from school owns 80 acres with two sweet cellar holes on the property. I have permission to hunt the property as much as I want. ( I am new at this and just got my detector a few months back)
Now as far as I have been told the property has never been detected. Checked my maps and sure enough both homes show on maps until around 1910. That is when they disappear so they are very old, most likely very early 1700s. From my scouting of the cellar hole sites I believe it to be virgin ground. One site is covered in metal trash on the ground, most of it is old soup cans and paint cans that are all 50 years old or more.
The second and older of the two cellar holes is just a great looking site. It is not over grown, there are only a few pieces of visible metal trash on the whole site, and the cellar is more intact with less trees growing out of the center of it than the other one. I went and scouted this site with my detector but have only dug one hole so far (there is still frost). I dug a single hole next to the well today (hand dug well with stones around it). Out of this hole came 6 different nails, all blacksmith made, square nails along with some other junk metal( I assume these are from the structure that was over the old well). This was in a single 10X10 inch area. I actually got some decent high tones along the walls of the cellar and surrounding area as well. I plan on returning after the frost is out of the ground to this site first.
So my questions are.....
1) Is it likely this is virgin ground? If detectorists had been here in the past would there be FAR less signals in the ground?
2) If it is virgin ground should I just dig every single thing? (I think this is my plan)
Thanking you in advance.
Now as far as I have been told the property has never been detected. Checked my maps and sure enough both homes show on maps until around 1910. That is when they disappear so they are very old, most likely very early 1700s. From my scouting of the cellar hole sites I believe it to be virgin ground. One site is covered in metal trash on the ground, most of it is old soup cans and paint cans that are all 50 years old or more.
The second and older of the two cellar holes is just a great looking site. It is not over grown, there are only a few pieces of visible metal trash on the whole site, and the cellar is more intact with less trees growing out of the center of it than the other one. I went and scouted this site with my detector but have only dug one hole so far (there is still frost). I dug a single hole next to the well today (hand dug well with stones around it). Out of this hole came 6 different nails, all blacksmith made, square nails along with some other junk metal( I assume these are from the structure that was over the old well). This was in a single 10X10 inch area. I actually got some decent high tones along the walls of the cellar and surrounding area as well. I plan on returning after the frost is out of the ground to this site first.
So my questions are.....
1) Is it likely this is virgin ground? If detectorists had been here in the past would there be FAR less signals in the ground?
2) If it is virgin ground should I just dig every single thing? (I think this is my plan)
Thanking you in advance.
