WHADIFIND
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Well, first of all let me thank all the responders to my last post about my new field. All the tips are helping me to figure this out.
Today, I spent about 4.5 hours out there, still just kind of randomly wandering to see if I can piece together what this area looked like a long time ago. It's nicely nestled in a very old section. There just has to be some decent finds there. I just have to figure out how to work the field. With your help, I'll get there. If nothing else I am very, very stubborn!
I gotta tell ya though, my wrist is very, very sore right now! The thing that bothered it the most was all the abrupt stops of the swings. Like when the corn stubble reaches up and grabs the coil or bumping up against them. What started to work just toward the end of the day is that I decided to just go with "flying at tree top level" LOL Sure I sacrificed some depth and mostly was searching the surface. But, at least I could work a little easier. I figure it will help me to get a feel for where things are laid out.
Here's the whopping total!
Part of my problem is that I'm just not that fluent in artifacts. More of a coin shooter.
I'm counting on the wisdom/experience here at T-NET to help me figure out when I've hit something of good indication.
First of all, let me get this rock out of the way. I just happen to like keeping interesting rocks.
I believe it's just quartz but it was so pretty in the sunshine. Kind of translucent, ya know?
And it had all these tiny little black crystals embedded on one side.
Neat huh.
Then there was this, buckle, hinge looking thingy.
Then, what better to dig up with my little shovel then a little shovel?
Disk? Maybe Aluminum?
Thought this might've been a musket ball. It's not, just a hot rock.
A bit of hardware. (Got screwed again. )
In a cornfield!?!? LOL
Iron doughnut? (before they became round?)
A rather substantial block of iron. Weighs about 3/4 pound.
A sort of thick kind of pointed piece of iron.
These came just after I started my "tree top flying" method. They were all very close together. I think I found the target area of the shooting gallery. Now, I need to find the shooting line where the gambling went on.
This one I find very interesting. It's nonmagnetic, I think I see a bit of green. (brass?)
No clue what it might've gone to.
And, finally, I guess the coin hunting gods must've felt sorry for me. They threw this one in for me. LOL
At least I have a new coin to experiment on with my cleaning methods.
Hope this post wasn't too long and /or boring. But, thank you guys for helping me to get this figured out.
HH!
Today, I spent about 4.5 hours out there, still just kind of randomly wandering to see if I can piece together what this area looked like a long time ago. It's nicely nestled in a very old section. There just has to be some decent finds there. I just have to figure out how to work the field. With your help, I'll get there. If nothing else I am very, very stubborn!
I gotta tell ya though, my wrist is very, very sore right now! The thing that bothered it the most was all the abrupt stops of the swings. Like when the corn stubble reaches up and grabs the coil or bumping up against them. What started to work just toward the end of the day is that I decided to just go with "flying at tree top level" LOL Sure I sacrificed some depth and mostly was searching the surface. But, at least I could work a little easier. I figure it will help me to get a feel for where things are laid out.
Here's the whopping total!
Part of my problem is that I'm just not that fluent in artifacts. More of a coin shooter.
I'm counting on the wisdom/experience here at T-NET to help me figure out when I've hit something of good indication.
First of all, let me get this rock out of the way. I just happen to like keeping interesting rocks.
I believe it's just quartz but it was so pretty in the sunshine. Kind of translucent, ya know?
And it had all these tiny little black crystals embedded on one side.
Neat huh.
Then there was this, buckle, hinge looking thingy.
Then, what better to dig up with my little shovel then a little shovel?
Disk? Maybe Aluminum?
Thought this might've been a musket ball. It's not, just a hot rock.
A bit of hardware. (Got screwed again.
)In a cornfield!?!? LOL
Iron doughnut? (before they became round?)
A rather substantial block of iron. Weighs about 3/4 pound.
A sort of thick kind of pointed piece of iron.
These came just after I started my "tree top flying" method. They were all very close together. I think I found the target area of the shooting gallery. Now, I need to find the shooting line where the gambling went on.
This one I find very interesting. It's nonmagnetic, I think I see a bit of green. (brass?)
No clue what it might've gone to.
And, finally, I guess the coin hunting gods must've felt sorry for me. They threw this one in for me. LOL
At least I have a new coin to experiment on with my cleaning methods.
Hope this post wasn't too long and /or boring. But, thank you guys for helping me to get this figured out.
HH!
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