Finding good metal dectecting spots?
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RobRieman
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- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
1) Old Schools
2) City/Town Parks
3) Circus/Fair Sites
4) Old Churches
5) Old Homestead Sites
6) Swimming Holes and Areas
7) Picnic Groves
8) Athletic Fields
9) Scout Camps
10) Rodeo Arenas
11) Campgrounds
12) Ghost Towns
13) Beaches
14) Old Taverns
15) Roadside Rest Stops
16) Sidewalk Grassy Strips
17) Amusement Parks
18) Rural Mailboxes
19) Reunion Areas
20) Revival sites
21) Fort Sites
22) Winter Sledding Areas
23) Lookout/Overlook Sites
24) Church Supper Groves
25) Fishing Spots
26) Fishing Camps
27) Resorts
28) Old Barns and Outbuildings
29) Battle Sites
30) Band Shells
31) Racetracks
32) Rural Boundary Walls
33) Roadside Fruit and Vegetable Stands
34) Under Seaside Boardwalks
35) Flea Market Areas
36) Ski Slopes
37) Drive Ins
38) Canal Paths
39) Vacant Lots
40) Motels
41) College Campuses
42) Farmer Market Areas
43) Town Squares
44) Urban Yards and Backyards
45) Disaster Sites
46) Areas Around Skating Ponds
47) Hunting Lodges and Camps
48) Mining Camps
49) Railroad Grades, Stations and Junctions
50) Hiking Trails
51) Waterfalls
52) Rural Dance Sites
53) Lover's Lanes
54) Areas Adjacent to Historical Markers
55) Old Gas Stations and General Stores
56) Fence Posts
57) Chicken Houses
58) Bridges and Fords
59) Flower Beds
60) Playgrounds
61) Old Garbage Dumps
62) Cloth Lines
63) Military Camp and Cantonment Sites
64) Wells and Outhouses
65) Abandoned Houses and Structures
66) Areas where Old Trails Cross County or State Boundaries
67) Piles of Scraped Soil at Construction Sites
68) Old Stone Quarries
69) Areas Around Old Abandoned Cemeteries in the Forest
70) Junctions of Abandoned Roads (crossroads)
2) City/Town Parks
3) Circus/Fair Sites
4) Old Churches
5) Old Homestead Sites
6) Swimming Holes and Areas
7) Picnic Groves
8) Athletic Fields
9) Scout Camps
10) Rodeo Arenas
11) Campgrounds
12) Ghost Towns
13) Beaches
14) Old Taverns
15) Roadside Rest Stops
16) Sidewalk Grassy Strips
17) Amusement Parks
18) Rural Mailboxes
19) Reunion Areas
20) Revival sites
21) Fort Sites
22) Winter Sledding Areas
23) Lookout/Overlook Sites
24) Church Supper Groves
25) Fishing Spots
26) Fishing Camps
27) Resorts
28) Old Barns and Outbuildings
29) Battle Sites
30) Band Shells
31) Racetracks
32) Rural Boundary Walls
33) Roadside Fruit and Vegetable Stands
34) Under Seaside Boardwalks
35) Flea Market Areas
36) Ski Slopes
37) Drive Ins
38) Canal Paths
39) Vacant Lots
40) Motels
41) College Campuses
42) Farmer Market Areas
43) Town Squares
44) Urban Yards and Backyards
45) Disaster Sites
46) Areas Around Skating Ponds
47) Hunting Lodges and Camps
48) Mining Camps
49) Railroad Grades, Stations and Junctions
50) Hiking Trails
51) Waterfalls
52) Rural Dance Sites
53) Lover's Lanes
54) Areas Adjacent to Historical Markers
55) Old Gas Stations and General Stores
56) Fence Posts
57) Chicken Houses
58) Bridges and Fords
59) Flower Beds
60) Playgrounds
61) Old Garbage Dumps
62) Cloth Lines
63) Military Camp and Cantonment Sites
64) Wells and Outhouses
65) Abandoned Houses and Structures
66) Areas where Old Trails Cross County or State Boundaries
67) Piles of Scraped Soil at Construction Sites
68) Old Stone Quarries
69) Areas Around Old Abandoned Cemeteries in the Forest
70) Junctions of Abandoned Roads (crossroads)
And Anywhere in between.......
Diggin-N-Dumps
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- All Treasure Hunting
Depends what your looking for. Some places are good for gold and others are good for relics and silver coins
Beepndig
Jr. Member
Any place near your home . Look at satellite map of area you live in and pick out the fields schools and parks you want to try your luck at for those hunts you don't have a bunch of time. The list up above, and anyplace you feel like you can get away with swinging a detector. Some places, like the ones on the list, will usually have a greater concentration of possible targets. These kinds of places will also have t he greatest concentration of treasure hunters. I have found modern coins every place I have ever detected. I didn't start fining silver until I started hunting baby boomer schools. Luckily, a lot of schools were built when WWII was over and people celebrated by making babies! probably the best hunting grounds, will be had by getting permission to hunt private grounds. Doing a little homework on the history of towns will turn up some good possibilities . The local historical fort may have been relocated at some point in time, old military camps were the beginning of many towns and town may have been built in different location from a towns humble beginnings...... Any older part of town they are owing street or sidewalk removal is like a time capsule and once replaced , won't see the light of day again for a long time. I have even scanned in random fields that weren't , to my knowledge, any form of social hot spot at any time in history and still found pesky pull tabs and a modern quarter. If there is older trash, could be older coins to be had.
My first older find was at my local fairgrounds in the overflow parking area that is nothing more than a flat field they use for parking during the fair. It was the driving range and club house area when I was a kid. They had skimmed the the top with a dozer and began bringing in recycled blacktop . Half the lot had already Ben recovered so I half heartedly swung my detector on full stride on my way to the dirt pile in the middle of the lot. Even swinging the coil wildly and way to fast I managed to hit two signals on the way to the dirt pile. One modern nickel and one tax token from 30-40's. On the dirt was a thick brown piece of a bottle bottom. It was from a Clorox bottle from the 40's. Didn't find anything exciting in the dirt pile but it exciting to get on some older stuff. Perfect timing as I May not have found the token if bull dozers hadn't removed the overburden for me.
My first older find was at my local fairgrounds in the overflow parking area that is nothing more than a flat field they use for parking during the fair. It was the driving range and club house area when I was a kid. They had skimmed the the top with a dozer and began bringing in recycled blacktop . Half the lot had already Ben recovered so I half heartedly swung my detector on full stride on my way to the dirt pile in the middle of the lot. Even swinging the coil wildly and way to fast I managed to hit two signals on the way to the dirt pile. One modern nickel and one tax token from 30-40's. On the dirt was a thick brown piece of a bottle bottom. It was from a Clorox bottle from the 40's. Didn't find anything exciting in the dirt pile but it exciting to get on some older stuff. Perfect timing as I May not have found the token if bull dozers hadn't removed the overburden for me.
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