Should you dig everything at an old house site-1800's
? No discrimination??
Hi everyone I was wondering what should I do with this problem? I live in Hawaii and found some old house sites that are in the 1800's thru early 1900's and no one has metal detected them before. I worked them and found some cool coins like a seated half dime, v nickels, indian head pennies and some rare Hawaiian coins. I was using a whites xlt with quite a bit of discrimination to cancel out the nail from the broken down house, the wood had already deteriorated. I went back a few times and found only nails but I was wondering if I should work that site with no discrimination and just dig all the nails and iron because they maybe masking out the coins?? Is that true, does the nails mask out the coins if the coins are under the nails?? I want to work the site like this but I know I will be digging every few seconds due to the amount of iron in the ground. I also found an old ranch site that was used by cowboys called the Paniolos the Hawaiian cowboy, found some rare belt buckles but no coins. It seems that these guys drank up the money they made. Do you guys think this site is worth looking again? I also found some smoking pipes. Do you guys think that even though I haven't found any coins so far that there is some in the ground? It seems like those guys were a little poor!! Any information from all of you will help me with my quest!! Oh, I own a whites classic id machine and it works alright any thing I should know about this machine? Is it good for what I will be doing with it, looking at old homesteads?? Thanks to all you guys for sharing your great knowledge!! Aloha,
? No discrimination??Hi everyone I was wondering what should I do with this problem? I live in Hawaii and found some old house sites that are in the 1800's thru early 1900's and no one has metal detected them before. I worked them and found some cool coins like a seated half dime, v nickels, indian head pennies and some rare Hawaiian coins. I was using a whites xlt with quite a bit of discrimination to cancel out the nail from the broken down house, the wood had already deteriorated. I went back a few times and found only nails but I was wondering if I should work that site with no discrimination and just dig all the nails and iron because they maybe masking out the coins?? Is that true, does the nails mask out the coins if the coins are under the nails?? I want to work the site like this but I know I will be digging every few seconds due to the amount of iron in the ground. I also found an old ranch site that was used by cowboys called the Paniolos the Hawaiian cowboy, found some rare belt buckles but no coins. It seems that these guys drank up the money they made. Do you guys think this site is worth looking again? I also found some smoking pipes. Do you guys think that even though I haven't found any coins so far that there is some in the ground? It seems like those guys were a little poor!! Any information from all of you will help me with my quest!! Oh, I own a whites classic id machine and it works alright any thing I should know about this machine? Is it good for what I will be doing with it, looking at old homesteads?? Thanks to all you guys for sharing your great knowledge!! Aloha,
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