tnt-hunter
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- Joined
- Apr 20, 2018
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- Location
- Mountain Maryland
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- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1 PART 1
I went to the K to 8 school and spent 4 hours swingin the CZ21. I found 40 coins with a face value of $3.14, a wheatie, a piece of jewelry, an aluminum carabiner, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps, 27 tabs, 4 pencil ends, 2 light bulb ends and fancy decorative copper.
I’m not sure what the decorative copper is from, it is rather beat up from the making of the field. But it is interesting.
DAY 1 PART 2
A guy I met who was working on the house next door metal detects with his eleven year old son. He brought the son to the house so I could show him some finds and talk about detecting. While I was detecting at the K to 8 school the dad called me and said he got a permission for a house built in the 1700s and asked if would like to go a long. I knew the property he was talking about and wanted to give it a try so I went.
One out building is still standing, but the main house is no longer there. The grass and weeds are thick in the front and side yards, but after the winter they are down so swingin is doable. The back yard and beyond is a field that was planted in corn last year and is unplanted so far this season.
I spent 3 hours with them swingin the CZ21 and found a lot of copper and brass, a weird iron device, a horseshoe and a half, a piece of farm chain and one memorial Lincoln cent.
The best find was the small door knob that I believe was probably in the original house. If I’m not mistaken it is a very old style.
The iron device was partly on the surface. The base was screwed down and is treaded so the length could be adjusted. There appear to be some words on the base and side, but I can’t make them out because of the rust.
DAY 2
I went back to the middle school and found more silver. I finished working a section and gridded part of another area up by the school. I spent 6 hours with my trusty CZ21 and found 56 coins with a face value of $5.15 (high quarter count), jewelry, a Pepsi game tab, a key, a ball magnet, a brass end cap, a tiny screw on tip, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps, foil, 72 tabs, 8 pencil ends, a hydrant key and a heavy brass valve.
The spider pendant is interesting. It is crudely made and is holding a black glass marble. I also found a green marble with a fancy holder that looks like it came from a cheapie ring.
The ZURN HYDRANT KEY is a first for me. Unfortunately it is bent up but again an interesting find. The JENKINS valve was close to the surface. The detector gave the overload bell signal, so I knew it was big. I almost always dig those because they can mask better items. This one has the iron pipe still attached, but I can get that off and recycle the brass. Most of the copper and brass will be recycled and give me more gas money for my efforts.
DAY 3
A got permission last week to detect a rundown house built in 1900. It is in the less affluent side of town so they may not have had much to loose back in the day, but I won’t know until I give it a go so off I went. We always go hoping for the best, and sometimes it works in our favor and sometimes it doesn’t. When I was almost done the owner came out and asked how I was doing. I gave him the rundown and then he told me that the yard had been reworked in the 1950s to add a major sewage drain (there are 2 manhole covers in the back yard) and a retaining wall so a lot of the good stuff went away with the dirt a long time ago.
I spent 6 hours gridding the entire yard (small back yard and only a curb strip in the front). Low and slow trying to be sure I didn’t miss anything good. With the CZ21 I found 16 coins with a face value of $1.21, a suspender hook, 2 wheaties, a small silver, a button, an underwear hook, a bug pin, a fancy key top, a clock gear, a belt buckle, a fancy key hole plate, part of a kerosene lamp, lots of foil, bits of copper, brass, and lead, can slaw and 7 tabs.
The hunt was disappointing since there were very few good targets and the old coins I was expecting did not come out of the ground. But it was a great hunt as well because I did find a trime, only my second in 23 years of detecting. I found it in the first half hour, the first coin of the day. When it came out it was so tiny and thin I thought it was an aluminum play coin. When I wiped away some of the dirt and saw the star I knew it was a trime. An 1852 which is funny because my first one was also an 1852.
The key like object is incomplete. On the back you can see the words IF FOUND RETURN TO ST…. Not sure exactly what it was when whole, but a different sort of find.
The lantern part is from a CLIMAX lamp patented in 1890.
I also found $200 in fake bills on top of the ground. You can see the word COPY in the corners. It was wet and they got dirty and beat up in my pocket. When I first saw them I thought I had hit it big, but then I realized they were smaller than normal so only novelty scrap paper.
DAY 4
I got back to the scout camp and worked in a different area of camp that has metal tent frames so they don’t use many pegs. I worked over one camp site and half of another. I spent 6.5 hours with the CZ21 and found 87 coins with a face value of $8.63, 38 camp tent pegs, a stainless table knife, a tab from a neckerchief slide, 2 pieces of cheapie jewelry, a military style can opener, 2 pieces of copper from metal working merit badge, an ace bandage clip, a bolo tie end, 3 modern bullets, a fishing lure, a batch of sinkers, melted aluminum from the campfires and 8 tabs.
The jewelry is cheapie stuff. With more girls in scouting these days we do find more jewelry at camp. The can opener is like the ones in World War 2 K rations, but larger and easier to handle.
Nothing great, but only 38 pegs instead of a 100 plus so that made things easier. The skunk cabbage is no longer looking like something out of a science fiction show and now looks like a normal plant.
BEFORE
NOW
This cute little salamander was under the leaves. It was chilly and he was slow to move so I got a good shot of him.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I found a dime on the sidewalk when we walked on Main Street and a dirty quarter and 2 pennies in a coinstar machine. Not great but at least I found something.
Only 2 silvers this week, but the trime was a wonderful surprise and the spider was different as well. Variety does keep things interesting. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
I went to the K to 8 school and spent 4 hours swingin the CZ21. I found 40 coins with a face value of $3.14, a wheatie, a piece of jewelry, an aluminum carabiner, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps, 27 tabs, 4 pencil ends, 2 light bulb ends and fancy decorative copper.
I’m not sure what the decorative copper is from, it is rather beat up from the making of the field. But it is interesting.
DAY 1 PART 2
A guy I met who was working on the house next door metal detects with his eleven year old son. He brought the son to the house so I could show him some finds and talk about detecting. While I was detecting at the K to 8 school the dad called me and said he got a permission for a house built in the 1700s and asked if would like to go a long. I knew the property he was talking about and wanted to give it a try so I went.
One out building is still standing, but the main house is no longer there. The grass and weeds are thick in the front and side yards, but after the winter they are down so swingin is doable. The back yard and beyond is a field that was planted in corn last year and is unplanted so far this season.
I spent 3 hours with them swingin the CZ21 and found a lot of copper and brass, a weird iron device, a horseshoe and a half, a piece of farm chain and one memorial Lincoln cent.
The best find was the small door knob that I believe was probably in the original house. If I’m not mistaken it is a very old style.
The iron device was partly on the surface. The base was screwed down and is treaded so the length could be adjusted. There appear to be some words on the base and side, but I can’t make them out because of the rust.
DAY 2
I went back to the middle school and found more silver. I finished working a section and gridded part of another area up by the school. I spent 6 hours with my trusty CZ21 and found 56 coins with a face value of $5.15 (high quarter count), jewelry, a Pepsi game tab, a key, a ball magnet, a brass end cap, a tiny screw on tip, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps, foil, 72 tabs, 8 pencil ends, a hydrant key and a heavy brass valve.
The spider pendant is interesting. It is crudely made and is holding a black glass marble. I also found a green marble with a fancy holder that looks like it came from a cheapie ring.
The ZURN HYDRANT KEY is a first for me. Unfortunately it is bent up but again an interesting find. The JENKINS valve was close to the surface. The detector gave the overload bell signal, so I knew it was big. I almost always dig those because they can mask better items. This one has the iron pipe still attached, but I can get that off and recycle the brass. Most of the copper and brass will be recycled and give me more gas money for my efforts.
DAY 3
A got permission last week to detect a rundown house built in 1900. It is in the less affluent side of town so they may not have had much to loose back in the day, but I won’t know until I give it a go so off I went. We always go hoping for the best, and sometimes it works in our favor and sometimes it doesn’t. When I was almost done the owner came out and asked how I was doing. I gave him the rundown and then he told me that the yard had been reworked in the 1950s to add a major sewage drain (there are 2 manhole covers in the back yard) and a retaining wall so a lot of the good stuff went away with the dirt a long time ago.
I spent 6 hours gridding the entire yard (small back yard and only a curb strip in the front). Low and slow trying to be sure I didn’t miss anything good. With the CZ21 I found 16 coins with a face value of $1.21, a suspender hook, 2 wheaties, a small silver, a button, an underwear hook, a bug pin, a fancy key top, a clock gear, a belt buckle, a fancy key hole plate, part of a kerosene lamp, lots of foil, bits of copper, brass, and lead, can slaw and 7 tabs.
The hunt was disappointing since there were very few good targets and the old coins I was expecting did not come out of the ground. But it was a great hunt as well because I did find a trime, only my second in 23 years of detecting. I found it in the first half hour, the first coin of the day. When it came out it was so tiny and thin I thought it was an aluminum play coin. When I wiped away some of the dirt and saw the star I knew it was a trime. An 1852 which is funny because my first one was also an 1852.
The key like object is incomplete. On the back you can see the words IF FOUND RETURN TO ST…. Not sure exactly what it was when whole, but a different sort of find.
The lantern part is from a CLIMAX lamp patented in 1890.
I also found $200 in fake bills on top of the ground. You can see the word COPY in the corners. It was wet and they got dirty and beat up in my pocket. When I first saw them I thought I had hit it big, but then I realized they were smaller than normal so only novelty scrap paper.
DAY 4
I got back to the scout camp and worked in a different area of camp that has metal tent frames so they don’t use many pegs. I worked over one camp site and half of another. I spent 6.5 hours with the CZ21 and found 87 coins with a face value of $8.63, 38 camp tent pegs, a stainless table knife, a tab from a neckerchief slide, 2 pieces of cheapie jewelry, a military style can opener, 2 pieces of copper from metal working merit badge, an ace bandage clip, a bolo tie end, 3 modern bullets, a fishing lure, a batch of sinkers, melted aluminum from the campfires and 8 tabs.
The jewelry is cheapie stuff. With more girls in scouting these days we do find more jewelry at camp. The can opener is like the ones in World War 2 K rations, but larger and easier to handle.
Nothing great, but only 38 pegs instead of a 100 plus so that made things easier. The skunk cabbage is no longer looking like something out of a science fiction show and now looks like a normal plant.
BEFORE
NOW
This cute little salamander was under the leaves. It was chilly and he was slow to move so I got a good shot of him.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I found a dime on the sidewalk when we walked on Main Street and a dirty quarter and 2 pennies in a coinstar machine. Not great but at least I found something.
Only 2 silvers this week, but the trime was a wonderful surprise and the spider was different as well. Variety does keep things interesting. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
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