Garrett424
Silver Member
- Jun 20, 2014
- 3,164
- 2,284
- Detector(s) used
- Teknetics Omega 8000
Teknetics Delta 4000,
Deteknix XPointer,
Fiskar's Big Grip Digger & my old Army Trench shovel for the tough jobs
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
So I've been getting a bit bored with hunting school fields and the like so I decided to try a woods hunt in an area I've never been to but I know used to have some activity back in the day. I spent a solid and enjoyable 4-5 hours hunting it.
I quickly realized that there is a TON (or two) of iron in the ground in this area and I had very little luck as far as any old coins go (so far). However I did find an area with a few modern clad coins scattered about including a Canadian dime. Go figure.
It looks like it was a dumping ground for a very long time and I assume that people may have been throwing stuff in right up to more recent times. Either that or kids who hang in the area and have dropped change over the years. Most of the coins are 70's era but a couple are much more recent.
So anyway, I managed to dig a pile of clad outta' there over a few hours including my first half dollar coin. It's just a 1985 Kennedy but it's still a first for me. It was something different anyway. Half's are kinda' rare in my part of the country. You just don't see them in circulation very often. I can sometimes go two or three years without seeing one.
I came across a big bottle dump but had no shovel to really dig into it. I did pick up two small old bottles that would fit in my pockets, a small piece of that broken blue and white pottery that always seems to always turn up in such places, a piece of mystery metal, a strip of mystery lead and a few more modern clad coins. It makes no sense but that's what I found. You just never know with this hobby.
The left bottle says "P.J. Ritter Company, PHILA (delphia I presume) on the bottom".
The other one has no markings at all but looks to be either a Talcum powder bottle of some kind or maybe even a pepper shaker. It has holes in the metal lid. Too bad that lid isn't silver. It won't come off but it's still completely intact which is cool. Overall the bottle's in pretty good shape. I'm not a huge collector of old bottles but I do pick them up from time to time if I like the way they look. I always grab old Coke bottles when I'm lucky enough to find them.
I did manage to find one Wheatie; a 1957 in pretty rough shape. That was the only "old" coin I could find.
I believe this spot may still have potential though. If I can dig up a whole bunch of the iron that's completely littering the area there may be some goodies lying beneath. It will be a huge undertaking though. Maybe I'll try and recruit a little help for this spot. I usually try and keep quiet about what I see as potentially good spots because they're getting more and more difficult to come by.
Overall it's a really neat place and I really enjoyed exploring it. It's big. I found some old stone walls, a huge old concrete foundation and even a small, old dam that once blocked the stream that cuts through the area. They built stone walls stone around the small pond area above the dam; most of which are still there. I searched the entire area that was once the pond in the hopes that it was once used as a "wishing well" but alas, no cigar. Nothing in there but nails and other junk.
I have no clue what kind of activity went on in this place but I'm gonna' try to find out some history. I need to find some older people to talk to. I know one guy who may be able to fill me in on this place. He seems to know the history of everything around here.
That's pretty much it for today.
Thanks for lookin' & HH.
I quickly realized that there is a TON (or two) of iron in the ground in this area and I had very little luck as far as any old coins go (so far). However I did find an area with a few modern clad coins scattered about including a Canadian dime. Go figure.
It looks like it was a dumping ground for a very long time and I assume that people may have been throwing stuff in right up to more recent times. Either that or kids who hang in the area and have dropped change over the years. Most of the coins are 70's era but a couple are much more recent.
So anyway, I managed to dig a pile of clad outta' there over a few hours including my first half dollar coin. It's just a 1985 Kennedy but it's still a first for me. It was something different anyway. Half's are kinda' rare in my part of the country. You just don't see them in circulation very often. I can sometimes go two or three years without seeing one.
I came across a big bottle dump but had no shovel to really dig into it. I did pick up two small old bottles that would fit in my pockets, a small piece of that broken blue and white pottery that always seems to always turn up in such places, a piece of mystery metal, a strip of mystery lead and a few more modern clad coins. It makes no sense but that's what I found. You just never know with this hobby.
The left bottle says "P.J. Ritter Company, PHILA (delphia I presume) on the bottom".
The other one has no markings at all but looks to be either a Talcum powder bottle of some kind or maybe even a pepper shaker. It has holes in the metal lid. Too bad that lid isn't silver. It won't come off but it's still completely intact which is cool. Overall the bottle's in pretty good shape. I'm not a huge collector of old bottles but I do pick them up from time to time if I like the way they look. I always grab old Coke bottles when I'm lucky enough to find them.
I did manage to find one Wheatie; a 1957 in pretty rough shape. That was the only "old" coin I could find.
I believe this spot may still have potential though. If I can dig up a whole bunch of the iron that's completely littering the area there may be some goodies lying beneath. It will be a huge undertaking though. Maybe I'll try and recruit a little help for this spot. I usually try and keep quiet about what I see as potentially good spots because they're getting more and more difficult to come by.
Overall it's a really neat place and I really enjoyed exploring it. It's big. I found some old stone walls, a huge old concrete foundation and even a small, old dam that once blocked the stream that cuts through the area. They built stone walls stone around the small pond area above the dam; most of which are still there. I searched the entire area that was once the pond in the hopes that it was once used as a "wishing well" but alas, no cigar. Nothing in there but nails and other junk.
I have no clue what kind of activity went on in this place but I'm gonna' try to find out some history. I need to find some older people to talk to. I know one guy who may be able to fill me in on this place. He seems to know the history of everything around here.
That's pretty much it for today.
Thanks for lookin' & HH.
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