Possum
Bronze Member
- Nov 22, 2017
- 1,912
- 2,477
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab CTX 3030 and Equinox 800, XP Deus, Shadow X5, Shadow X2, Fisher F44, Whites Coinmaster, and Tesoro Compadre'
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Today’s finds weren’t anything to write home about, but I had a good time finding what I did and learning my Equinox 800. Truth and I were going to hunt today but the weather messed us up, so he decided to stay on the Northshore and do a little detecting up there and I hung around the Westbank (south of New Orleans across the Mississippi River) and hope the rain would let up so I could get a little hunting in.
Well by midday the rain slacked up so I decided to go to the park Truth and I were going to hunt, and yes, I sent him text to see whether he wanted to head south and join me. The park is located almost directly across the Mississippi River from the “Chalmette Battle Field” where Andrew Jackson fought the British during the Battle of New Orleans January 8th, 1815.
Another interesting fact about this park is, it’s located approximately 2/10th of a mile south of where Brigadier General David B. Morgan, commander of troops on the west bank of the Mississippi River, had set up his defenses with the intent of stopping the British from flanking Jackson and shelling him with artillery from the rivers Westbank.
Okay, enough rambling about the park, anyhow the first target I dug was a 1944 Wheatie, after that was a 1965 quarter. I did dig a lot of bottle tops, beavertails and such, but it was by my own accord in an attempt to get a better feel of my machine.
After about an hour or so of detecting I got a strong deep hit registering in the copper range on my VDI, this peaked my interest so I decided to dig. Well after digging about 10 inches I felt my Lesche tool strike metal and after a bit more digging I unearthed a large piece of patina covered thin metal that after knocking off the dirt and mud, turned out to be what looks like a “rice colander”.
After filling in my hole I noticed that the area around the colander was blanking my threshold like crazy and about a foot or so away I got another deep hit and I thought maybe it was the rest of the colander, so again I began digging. Soon I realized it wasn’t the rest of the colander, it was just a big old nail, or so I thought, which kinda had me wondering why it hit the nail like the colander, yet the rest of the iron is blanking my threshold.
I swept the hole again and realized the nail wasn’t what my machine had detected, the nail was about 3 inches above another patina covered object, which turned out to be, what I thought a first was a small buckle, but after cleaning it up I noticed it wasn’t a buckle, even though it’s shaped like one. This object has what appears to be iron rivets or something around it’s outer edge, as you can see in the pic’s below and it also has the number “5” stamped on it. I honestly don’t know what it actually is, hopefully someone here will enlighten me.
The rest of my hunt there didn’t yield much more other than a few more post Wheatie copper pennies, so I decided to head back towards Westwego and along the way I stopped at another park and there I picked up some more clad coins and a 1990 “B97 FM” Mardi Gras doubloon.
All in all, it was a good day and I enjoyed the chance to get out and hunt a little. I apologize for such a long post, but thanks for reading it… “D”
Well by midday the rain slacked up so I decided to go to the park Truth and I were going to hunt, and yes, I sent him text to see whether he wanted to head south and join me. The park is located almost directly across the Mississippi River from the “Chalmette Battle Field” where Andrew Jackson fought the British during the Battle of New Orleans January 8th, 1815.
Another interesting fact about this park is, it’s located approximately 2/10th of a mile south of where Brigadier General David B. Morgan, commander of troops on the west bank of the Mississippi River, had set up his defenses with the intent of stopping the British from flanking Jackson and shelling him with artillery from the rivers Westbank.
Okay, enough rambling about the park, anyhow the first target I dug was a 1944 Wheatie, after that was a 1965 quarter. I did dig a lot of bottle tops, beavertails and such, but it was by my own accord in an attempt to get a better feel of my machine.
After about an hour or so of detecting I got a strong deep hit registering in the copper range on my VDI, this peaked my interest so I decided to dig. Well after digging about 10 inches I felt my Lesche tool strike metal and after a bit more digging I unearthed a large piece of patina covered thin metal that after knocking off the dirt and mud, turned out to be what looks like a “rice colander”.
After filling in my hole I noticed that the area around the colander was blanking my threshold like crazy and about a foot or so away I got another deep hit and I thought maybe it was the rest of the colander, so again I began digging. Soon I realized it wasn’t the rest of the colander, it was just a big old nail, or so I thought, which kinda had me wondering why it hit the nail like the colander, yet the rest of the iron is blanking my threshold.
I swept the hole again and realized the nail wasn’t what my machine had detected, the nail was about 3 inches above another patina covered object, which turned out to be, what I thought a first was a small buckle, but after cleaning it up I noticed it wasn’t a buckle, even though it’s shaped like one. This object has what appears to be iron rivets or something around it’s outer edge, as you can see in the pic’s below and it also has the number “5” stamped on it. I honestly don’t know what it actually is, hopefully someone here will enlighten me.
The rest of my hunt there didn’t yield much more other than a few more post Wheatie copper pennies, so I decided to head back towards Westwego and along the way I stopped at another park and there I picked up some more clad coins and a 1990 “B97 FM” Mardi Gras doubloon.
All in all, it was a good day and I enjoyed the chance to get out and hunt a little. I apologize for such a long post, but thanks for reading it… “D”
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