Old school property

[Auriemma]

There is an old school property near me. The school itself was built in 1926 and razed in 2005. It's now just an empty grass field. Would it be worth it to hunt it? Or not, because of all the soil being moved when the school was torn down?

 

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[Dave Rishar]

Dave, I'm lucky that the site, before and after razing, has always beem well maintained. It still is. Its a 15 acrea site with 3 kids ball fields. That still leaves a lot of empty space to explore.

Then GET YOU SOME. And don't be afraid to dig down into the foil range either. Some (most?) of those old-timers were high grading, and they walked right over the stuff that wasn't silver. There might be gold in that there field. Dig it up and thank them for being so picky.

Also, take a look at Tom Dankowski's articles on silent masking. (I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post links to here or not, so Google it to be safe.) The guys that hit that field before you missed stuff. It's a fact. Your job is to figure out how to find it. It won't be easy, but stuff is there if you're willing to dig the holes in order to root it out. By Mr. Dankowski's reasoning (which is backed by his finds on one particular site, although that's not the site that you or I are working), 95% of the good stuff is still in the ground, but masked and/or too deep to locate with VLF detectors. It's something to think about for those played out sites.

 

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[Ocean7]

I would hunt it and I would be even more interested if I heard it was hunted out because then I know the deep stuff is most likely still there.
My Garrett VLF can go so far (80's tech.) My Minelab is a different story. There could be some really nice silver waiting.
One school that I detected had soil trucked in on one area. It was a 1950's built school but I found a
Nova Constellatio with no date (1783-1786) very deep in that area. Many MD's had scanned that same area.
HH!

 

[gleaner1]

That old school grounds has been beat to death. If you think you can go there and find one silver, bring a Etrac, and please, show us the find.

 

[GatorBoy]

That spoon was silver plated copper that could have been a very nice coin.