Found Hidden Concrete Steps

[AusTexDude]

Founds some old steps that have sunk down into the dirt. They were obscured by weeds. I started detecting at the bottom of the steps and found 2 rings, a tungsten and a gold plated crushed ring with hardly any gold plating.

I'm finding a gazillion targets by the old steps, mostly beaver tails.

 

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[Chilli]

Founds some old steps that have sunk down into the dirt. They were obscured by weeds. I started detecting at the bottom of the steps and found 2 rings, a tungsten and a gold plated crushed ring with hardly any gold plating.

I'm finding a gazillion targets by the old steps, mostly beaver tails.

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I know beavers chew on trees and make dams! But I was clueless to the fact they shed their tails and they were somehow detectable!
Im learning new stuff here each day! 🤓

 

[AusTexDude]

I know beavers chew on trees and make dams! But I was clueless to the fact they shed their tails and they were somehow detectable!
Im learning new stuff here each day! 🤓

They stopped making them in 1975. I'm mining them by the hundreds/week. When you find these old pull tabs you're in a great area.

 

[Chilli]

They stopped making them in 1975. I'm mining them by the hundreds/week. When you find these old pull tabs you're in a great area.

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Ohh, those dam things. The most annoying here are the old ones with the two notches, top middle and right. We used to break of the ring from the tail and see who could make the ring fly furthest by kind of setting the notch on the tail, pulling back and flinging it off the tail. I think everyone in those days did. Trouble being it doubled up the rubbish of them later down the track detecting and spread them all over the place.
Yep as a kid and teen I was guilty.

 

[ToddsPoint]

. When you find these old pull tabs you're in a great area.

I think this is the first positive comment I’ve ever heard about ring tops. Ring tops in the park and shotgun head stamps in the woods! I’m not sure everyone would agree with you.

 

[AusTexDude]

I think this is the first positive comment I’ve ever heard about ring tops. Ring tops in the park and shotgun head stamps in the woods! I’m not sure everyone would agree with you.

I am in a heavily infested area and I mean I'm pulling 20 per hour a combination of both old style and new style pull tabs. That being said, I'm pushing almost 20 rings from that area and over 30 pieces of jewelry combined.

I dig every single signal above iron.

 

[pepperj]

I am in a heavily infested area and I mean I'm pulling 20 per hour a combination of both old style and new style pull tabs. That being said, I'm pushing almost 20 rings from that area and over 30 pieces of jewelry combined.

I dig every single signal above iron.

38 yrs ago I tried to do the dig every tab to obtain the gold ring.
200-300 targets later and still not a keeper I gave this up.
I just detected as I had before and it seemed that the gold was showing up more often.
Still to this day I will have to be mighty desperate to dig tabs to get the yellow.

For the ones that do dig tabs I tip my hat to you. Your patience is very noticeable.

What's the price of that yellow metal now? 😁

 

[AusTexDude]

The park I am working in does not seem to have been ever detected before. Finding lots of clad too. The park has been open for about 50 years. This town I live in used to be inhabited by biker gangs mostly until they cleaned it out in the mid 1980s. That's why I'm finding lots of skulls and skeleton related jewelry.

 

[pepperj]

The park I am working in does not seem to have been ever detected before. Finding lots of clad too. The park has been open for about 50 years. This town I live in used to be inhabited by biker gangs mostly until they cleaned it out in the mid 1980s. That's why I'm finding lots of skulls and skeleton related jewelry.

These are from the early 1990's non dug silver jewelry.
Not quality pictures as they taken in a storage vault.
Just for era references.