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[pepperj]

Morning Bill

 

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[pepperj]

Morning rook-now RU up-or or down? Getting confused here. Flip flopping like a fish on the deck it seems.
Get a

It's a new day-again

 

[pepperj]

This is exactly my line of thinking as well Jim.
It's not anywhere near as old as the sites you and I are used to hunting, but there were a lot of old buildings in the vicinity between 1830 - 80.

So you never know right?

Good morning rook!

Just because there is a new-it could very well of sat on an old. The back lawn just might be part of the older homestead's lawn/yard it could turn out very well.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Good morning Rook, ARC, Pepper, Anti., Bill, Bart, Simon (watching from afar),WD, WHADIFIND, (any moment now) and the rest of the crew when ya’z get here.

Congrats Bart! That’s an awesome find, hope it cleans up well. See, the treasure comes to you!

Good luck Anti & all going out TH’ing today.

Rook, I know what you mean on the drive way turn arounds, I literally have one a day. Why they don’t use their own is a mystery! A few days ago I got a two’fer, flat bed with a car on it, barely missed my power line that hangs over the drive way.

WD rug rats are the secret weapon! They keep going and going and going, long after I’m done tuckered out! Oh, and they do magic tricks make things disappear! I had 10 pens yesterday, today nada! I will be signing my name with crayon...if I can find one!

Hopefully I get this posted before tomorrow or the rug rats arise.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Anti some times old dirt is moved to new places, makes for some interesting finds!

 

[Blak bart]

Oh boy....this coin is gonna clean up good....got a killer cloisonne buckle yesterday too

 

[Blak bart]

Good morning folks !!

 

[WannaDig3687]

Avast!

What be all de blasted raucous about de deck?!?!?
Blimey! Me can’t even sleep one off!!

Well blow me down! Treasure! Sweet, sweet treasure!!

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah for blakbart!!!

 

[bill from lachine]

Jim/Dave,

So true about not dismissing what appears to be a recent site. A large high school sports field I detect was built in the mid 1950's.

I've made finds from circa WW1 there also my only U.S. half dime from 1853. It turns out the site was a staging area for the war effort of WW1 as part of the Lachine Remount Depot supplying horses to Europe and more than likely an old farm prior to that.

Just because there is a new-it could very well of sat on an old. The back lawn just might be part of the older homestead's lawn/yard it could turn out very well.

 

[pepperj]

Good morning folks !!

The morning wishes from thee pirate himself. Morning bart on the "8" here's to the end results
I'm sure all life's little troubles went bye-bye, when you popped that bad boy.

 

[pepperj]

Jim/Dave,

So true about not dismissing what appears to be a recent site. A large high school sports field I detect was built in the mid 1950's.

I've made finds from circa WW1 there also my only U.S. half dime from 1853. It turns out the site was a staging area for the war effort of WW1 as part of the Lachine Remount Depot supplying horses to Europe and more than likely an old farm prior to that.

That's what I love about this passion.
I have pre-dated a site by over a 100yrs.
Just because something is sitting there today-it still had to be something from yesterday.
Many times there will be a smaller structure in the immediate area of the main homesteads. Folks started off small, lived in a temp. housing for years sometimes till they could afford to build the main home.
I tell a landowner that there was a structure here or there, and I have heard many times "Gee I didn't know that"
There's a landowner where I detect that has 250 acres it has provided me with 8 sites (to date) but the old maps show only 5. Lots of date range coinage from a 1740 1/2 Reale to Blacksmith tokens, to the wide range of pre-coinage tokens, to modern silver/coppers.
Even on my own property I have found more building/structures of some type than what is recorded on the historical maps or in print by the local historians.
I love it when I tell this one author about a structure/home/house (what ever it was to be called) then they state " Well I know for a fact there was no house there" OK please explain to me why the following finds were made.
Square nails (in the hundreds) all in a certain grid area. Glass, pottery, 1812-1830 coinage, brass, musket balls. iron?
They stand there with that look in their eyes.
I usually just say if it wasn't written down-then you probably never heard about it then.
So then I say also that's what this passion is all about-finding the unwritten history of the spot.

 

[pepperj]

Morning MBB

 

[WHADIFIND]

I'm off to detect a 1/2acre 'residential site' for 7am this morning.
The house built in the late 1930s or early 1940's was recently demolished to make way for a multi-house residential development.

This is what I've had to lower myself to detect until the beans are harvested in October.
I'll let you all know if anything interesting pops up.

Dave

Well!!! Harumpf!!! *LOWER* hisself he does!!
So much for us Cladsters!
Arrrghhh!

 

[WHADIFIND]

Hey it's better than a "Tot-Lot" lowering.
Best of luck-there might be a few silvers lurking under that grass.

Et tu?

 

[pepperj]

Well!!! Harumpf!!! *LOWER* hisself he does!!
So much for us Cladsters!
Arrrghhh!

Yet the "Tot-Lots" taunt him all the time.

"Dave comeback-Oh Dave in the wood chips-Oh Dave-Please."

 

[WHADIFIND]

Just because there is a new-it could very well of sat on an old. The back lawn just might be part of the older homestead's lawn/yard it could turn out very well.

I always ask myself one question; How old is the dirt there.

 

[Blak bart]

holy guacamole !! This thing is gonna be a winner. Here it is next to my mounted one !! I'm still in shock....there isn't but a handful of these things out there....I see alot of fakes on line !! Working on the date side still !!

 

[pepperj]

I always ask myself one question; How old is the dirt there.

Here? Where? On Earth? Or someplace there?
Here well if I get something in the late 1700's it's a
Early 1800's it's a great find-slimmer.
1812-1850's Getting more common
1850-1880 Nice easy to mid Victorian
1880-1920 Late Victorian-Now a seemly desperate to find older detecting spot.
Get fussy after 50yrs of digging it seems.

 

[WHADIFIND]

Something else....on "hunted out"?
I ask meself....How long have detectors been around? And then....how long have people been losing things? Hunted out!? Hah!

 

[WHADIFIND]

Here? Where? On Earth? Or someplace there?
Here well if I get something in the late 1700's it's a
Early 1800's it's a great find-slimmer.
1812-1850's Getting more common
1850-1880 Nice easy to mid Victorian
1880-1920 Late Victorian-Now a seemly desperate to find older detecting spot.
Get fussy after 50yrs of digging it seems.

Me: Clad, Clad,Clad, .......brand new, vintage 2020 5 carat diamond ring!!!

We're even!