normalizer
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- Sep 3, 2012
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- Location
- Nashville, TN
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett Ace 350, Garrett AT PRO, and Garrett Pro Pointer. Hope to one day be good enough to justify buying a Whites V3Xi.
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
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I'm one of the dirty horde that has jumped into metal detecting after seeing DIGGERS on NatGeo.
I've been fascinated about pulling "treasures" out of the ground since I was a child, finding arrowheads and my big brothers old hotwheels cars in the dirt where my father had tilled the soil for our garden. Studied archaeology in college, though only recreationally, and was lucky enough to participate in a dig of a roman village in the UK. Being a college kid with no experience they gave me a trowel and pointed me towards and unimportant area where I found the remains of a camp fire and someone's dinner from about 1700 years ago. The charcoal looked like it had been burnt the night before, and every pig bone I pulled out took me back in time. A couple girls in my class were luckier and found a cache of coins. They got run off as soon as the experts saw what they had, but I got to stay and enjoy my time by the fire.
Fast forward and I saw Diggers for the first time last week, the spark was relit, and I ran out and got an Ace 350 and ProPointer. The guy at the shop that sold it to me insisted I hang out for an hour or so to teach me some of the do's and don'ts, what to expect and tips to have a good time and not get burnt out by not finding treasure right away.
There is an old slave wall on the hill above my mothers house from when this land was part of a plantation. It's been left uncut and relatively untouched till now and is being parceled out for sale to real estate developers. I figured if I was gonna look up there now was the time, as they've cut a road and not too many people know about it. I spent a couple hours with the Ace in coin mode, found tons of steel beer cans from the 60's and 70's, 3 shotgun shell cases from the 30's, and a broken half pint bottle dated 1961. Nothing of value, but treasure to me all the same. I've got them displayed in a case as I type, and have a good idea who was hunting up there around 1934.
So I'm a bit of an archie, tv-trash, your worst nightmare. But I'm learning to dig good plugs by practicing in my own yard and haul out all the trash I find while exploring.
One question of decorum though - I felt weird about the beer cans. They are mostly in really rough shape, some you can't even tell what they are, but others with clear printing and logos. I tried to pull as much out of the muck as I could and put them in small piles, but left them for the most part where I foudn them. I know they are trash but I figure in another 50 years a Country Club Malt Liquor can might be treasure to someone else. (that's the archaelogist in me I guess.) What would others do, pull them out and send them to recycling or leave them for someone to possibly discover in the future?
Thanks!
I've been fascinated about pulling "treasures" out of the ground since I was a child, finding arrowheads and my big brothers old hotwheels cars in the dirt where my father had tilled the soil for our garden. Studied archaeology in college, though only recreationally, and was lucky enough to participate in a dig of a roman village in the UK. Being a college kid with no experience they gave me a trowel and pointed me towards and unimportant area where I found the remains of a camp fire and someone's dinner from about 1700 years ago. The charcoal looked like it had been burnt the night before, and every pig bone I pulled out took me back in time. A couple girls in my class were luckier and found a cache of coins. They got run off as soon as the experts saw what they had, but I got to stay and enjoy my time by the fire.
Fast forward and I saw Diggers for the first time last week, the spark was relit, and I ran out and got an Ace 350 and ProPointer. The guy at the shop that sold it to me insisted I hang out for an hour or so to teach me some of the do's and don'ts, what to expect and tips to have a good time and not get burnt out by not finding treasure right away.
There is an old slave wall on the hill above my mothers house from when this land was part of a plantation. It's been left uncut and relatively untouched till now and is being parceled out for sale to real estate developers. I figured if I was gonna look up there now was the time, as they've cut a road and not too many people know about it. I spent a couple hours with the Ace in coin mode, found tons of steel beer cans from the 60's and 70's, 3 shotgun shell cases from the 30's, and a broken half pint bottle dated 1961. Nothing of value, but treasure to me all the same. I've got them displayed in a case as I type, and have a good idea who was hunting up there around 1934.
So I'm a bit of an archie, tv-trash, your worst nightmare. But I'm learning to dig good plugs by practicing in my own yard and haul out all the trash I find while exploring.
One question of decorum though - I felt weird about the beer cans. They are mostly in really rough shape, some you can't even tell what they are, but others with clear printing and logos. I tried to pull as much out of the muck as I could and put them in small piles, but left them for the most part where I foudn them. I know they are trash but I figure in another 50 years a Country Club Malt Liquor can might be treasure to someone else. (that's the archaelogist in me I guess.) What would others do, pull them out and send them to recycling or leave them for someone to possibly discover in the future?
Thanks!
