tnt-hunter
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- Apr 20, 2018
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1
I went to a park in the big city to the east that has been detected for at least 45 or 50 years. The contributors keep leaving new things, but there are still older items hiding under the ground waiting for someone to get their coil over them and dig.
I spent 4.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and managed to find 58 newer coins with a face value of $3.29, an assortment of cheapie jewelry, a bullet, a Coca Cola game tab, a toy car, a trigger from a toy gun, aluminum cans and bottle caps, can slaw, bits of copper wire, tabs (lots of beaver tail tabs) and foil.
The ring is a small sized stainless steel with the Lord’s Prayer printed on it. The bullet has been abused and you have to look closely to see that it is a civil war bullet. This park is on the edge of the civil war camp and the bullet school is on the other end. The park has been well detected so the bullets are hard to find here. I have found a few others in the past. This one didn’t give a very good signal and was 12 inches deep in clay and shale mixed soil. It has the cone cavity and you can see the 3 rings barely visible on the sides. There are rifling grooves on the bullet and it look like it was a .58 caliber that was shoved into a .54 caliber rifle musket. The end of the bullet has the imprint of the ramrod tip on it. A great deal of force was needed to transform the tip of the bullet like that. It must have been fired, because there are no signs of the bullet being wormed from the gun, but it doesn’t show any signs of impact. Not a great bullet, but it is different and it is an oldie so all take it. It was the find of the day.
DAY 2
I only had one day on the weekend so I went to the new school permission since it has the most area undetected with the most potential. The weather was below freezing at the start and warmed up to the low forties by the time I was done.
I spent 6 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 49 coins with a face value of $2.78, 2 rings, a 1919 D wheatie, a piece of cheapie jewelry, a brass fitting, half of a brass tin, a modern button, a dart tip, aluminum fence wire, pencil ends, 2 clock frames, a heavy lead pipe seal, tabs, can slaw and foil.
I am the only person with permission to detect at the school, but one of the local folks walking at the school told me 2 other guys have been detecting there in the past. They seem to have only detected the one field and when I was detecting that section I could see places they had dug. (They are neat, but they didn’t stomp their plugs down tight and the freezing weather pushes them up just enough that you can see the edge.) As I was gridding a section and was in the middle of an area where they had dug a number of targets, I did find some coins and I got lots of mid tones signals including one that produced this nice little 14k white gold ring. It isn’t very big (size 4 3/4) but it is wide and weighs 6.1 grams or .20 troy ounces. If you aren’t digging some trash (mid tones) you ARE missing treasure. As you can see from the junk picture I am digging some trash.
I knew there was at least one gold ring on this field. I taught here for 4 years in the late 1990s and the PE teacher told me that a girl had lost a gold ring on this field during a class. I’m not sure if this is the one or not (I didn’t get a description at the time). I know her name so I will see if I can track her down and check to see if it is hers so I can return it.
I found the bottom of a brass tin. It is mangled and I needed to used 0000 steel wool to clean it off enough to read anything. Most of it is easy to read except for the last name of the company. THE GEORGE W??FT COMPANY, NEW YORK, PARIS, LONDON , MADE IN US. It could be THE GEORGE W LOFT COMPANY which was a New York candy company, but I don’t think they had any locations in Paris or London. It looks more like a makeup tin and many cosmetic companies operated in all 3 cities. If anyone can help with the ID it would be greatly appreciated.
I did manage to find a dime and a couple of eaten up pennies in the coinstar and a dime on the floor at the market, but those finds have been a little harder to come by lately.
A short week with the holiday and preparations for guests, but I did manage to get out so that’s good. Gold always makes for a good day and I still love the civil war bullets. No idea what next week will be like. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
I went to a park in the big city to the east that has been detected for at least 45 or 50 years. The contributors keep leaving new things, but there are still older items hiding under the ground waiting for someone to get their coil over them and dig.
I spent 4.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and managed to find 58 newer coins with a face value of $3.29, an assortment of cheapie jewelry, a bullet, a Coca Cola game tab, a toy car, a trigger from a toy gun, aluminum cans and bottle caps, can slaw, bits of copper wire, tabs (lots of beaver tail tabs) and foil.
The ring is a small sized stainless steel with the Lord’s Prayer printed on it. The bullet has been abused and you have to look closely to see that it is a civil war bullet. This park is on the edge of the civil war camp and the bullet school is on the other end. The park has been well detected so the bullets are hard to find here. I have found a few others in the past. This one didn’t give a very good signal and was 12 inches deep in clay and shale mixed soil. It has the cone cavity and you can see the 3 rings barely visible on the sides. There are rifling grooves on the bullet and it look like it was a .58 caliber that was shoved into a .54 caliber rifle musket. The end of the bullet has the imprint of the ramrod tip on it. A great deal of force was needed to transform the tip of the bullet like that. It must have been fired, because there are no signs of the bullet being wormed from the gun, but it doesn’t show any signs of impact. Not a great bullet, but it is different and it is an oldie so all take it. It was the find of the day.
DAY 2
I only had one day on the weekend so I went to the new school permission since it has the most area undetected with the most potential. The weather was below freezing at the start and warmed up to the low forties by the time I was done.
I spent 6 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 49 coins with a face value of $2.78, 2 rings, a 1919 D wheatie, a piece of cheapie jewelry, a brass fitting, half of a brass tin, a modern button, a dart tip, aluminum fence wire, pencil ends, 2 clock frames, a heavy lead pipe seal, tabs, can slaw and foil.
I am the only person with permission to detect at the school, but one of the local folks walking at the school told me 2 other guys have been detecting there in the past. They seem to have only detected the one field and when I was detecting that section I could see places they had dug. (They are neat, but they didn’t stomp their plugs down tight and the freezing weather pushes them up just enough that you can see the edge.) As I was gridding a section and was in the middle of an area where they had dug a number of targets, I did find some coins and I got lots of mid tones signals including one that produced this nice little 14k white gold ring. It isn’t very big (size 4 3/4) but it is wide and weighs 6.1 grams or .20 troy ounces. If you aren’t digging some trash (mid tones) you ARE missing treasure. As you can see from the junk picture I am digging some trash.
I knew there was at least one gold ring on this field. I taught here for 4 years in the late 1990s and the PE teacher told me that a girl had lost a gold ring on this field during a class. I’m not sure if this is the one or not (I didn’t get a description at the time). I know her name so I will see if I can track her down and check to see if it is hers so I can return it.
I found the bottom of a brass tin. It is mangled and I needed to used 0000 steel wool to clean it off enough to read anything. Most of it is easy to read except for the last name of the company. THE GEORGE W??FT COMPANY, NEW YORK, PARIS, LONDON , MADE IN US. It could be THE GEORGE W LOFT COMPANY which was a New York candy company, but I don’t think they had any locations in Paris or London. It looks more like a makeup tin and many cosmetic companies operated in all 3 cities. If anyone can help with the ID it would be greatly appreciated.
I did manage to find a dime and a couple of eaten up pennies in the coinstar and a dime on the floor at the market, but those finds have been a little harder to come by lately.
A short week with the holiday and preparations for guests, but I did manage to get out so that’s good. Gold always makes for a good day and I still love the civil war bullets. No idea what next week will be like. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
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