How deep do you dig before you give up?

Story is getting around. Third post I have seen relating to it. Amazing. Considering that there isn't a detector that I have ever heard of that will detect more than about 10" I can't imagine anyone diging that deep for a target.

I suppose, as may be the case in my yard, where there might be some major stuff burried in a cluster, like where my brothers burried some old bicycles and a couple of push mowers and other junk, you might detect some stuff deeper.

One brother had dug a hole very deep. Just for the fun of it. He was in high school at the time and decided he was going out to the yard and dig. Like we used to do when we were kids. My parents were out of town and he didn't want to go to school that day. My other brother came home and couldn't find him. looking around, he found him in the yard in a hole about 7 or 8 feet deep, as I understand. I was away at school at the time so I don't know how deep and all. The story was that the older brother had to get a ladder to rescue him. :D

Anyway, the hole sat for a while until he got the same motivation to fill it, that made him dig it. However, due to erosion and settling etc., there wasn't enough dirt to completely fill it in. So, my two brothers decided to do some cleaning in the shed and garage. They filled the hole and topped it off and leveled it so that we could have a new shed built in that corner of the yard. They poured a concrete pad over much of it and built a little stick built building on it.

I went out a few weeks ago and detected in the area and I get one solid signal all over. I don't even bother to dig there, knowing what I mgiht get into.

I don't know how deep the top of the junk really is. Maybe they only topped it with 10 or 12" ??? I wonder how deep a detector, even the best of them would detect a Schwinn or two, or three, piled on top of eachother.

I really don't think you would have much luck with gold at any real depth like that. Unless it is a nugget the size of a Buick or something.
 

Personally, I think he might have found gold...but as he was racing to the garden shed to get a shovel...he didn't mark the spot right...and started digging...but little did he know...the gold was 1' closer to the porch than he remembered...and now it's under that huge pile of dirt. IDK...just throwing it out there! HAHA :D
 

After reading this story several times I'm beginning to wonder if this person didn't do this just for the publicity.

By the looks of the house we're dealing with someone who obviously was cabable of some degree of thinking. No, I think the whole deal was planned.

As for how deep I'll dig, it depends on the potential target. For coins I'll stop at about 8 inches if digging in a park that has not had fill dirt added to it anytime in the past. I've found that for inland hunting, usually if a target is not found within 5 inches of the surface it's not worth digging. Very few coins or jewelry are ever found inland deeper than 5 inches unless an area has been filled in. You can tell fill areas quickly because you'll be digging coins at 7 to 14+ inches deep. If undisturbed coins 300 years old can be on the surface or 1 inch deep. My dad found an early V nickel laying right on top of the ground when he was clearing out a wooded area. Dragging out tree branches must have brushed away the leaves and natural mulch that covered it.

I hunt mainly early sites that have not been used for 100+ years or more. Except for trash pits and privy holes, 90% of my finds from coins to shovels are 1 to 4 inches deep. Most are in the very upper level of the thick sod. A Garrett Ace 250 could easily find everything I find with my $500 machine. It's usually all about locate, not the detector used.
 

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