What trash do you find the most other than, tabs, caps, foil, screws, nails?

[AusTexDude]

For me it's cable connectors. Every place I detect that has a cable connection nearby I can find connectors dating all the way back to the 80s. These cable guys just chuck those things everywhere and have been for 30 years and they ring up as a hard solid signal of silver.

Some places I detect I find blobs of what looks to be once molten aluminum. Is that from welding? I usually find that stuff near the lake.

 

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[lenmac65]

Ditto to what others have said. I would add .22 caliber shell casings and modern fired bullets, oftentimes low caliber. Nails too, of course.

 

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[cudamark]

Crusty/corroded zinc cents are f'ing everywhere....sound great.... and worthless

 

[WaterScoop]

One more that drives me nuts

 

[Coinboy]

For me since i’m a “dig it all” kind of guy it’s gotta be random pieces of scrap metal. I just can’t seem to escape them.

 

[bc5391]

lead , shell casings, bottle caps

 

[sprailroad]

Crusty/corroded zinc cents are f'ing everywhere....sound great.... and worthless

Yep, cudamark beat me to it.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Nails, shrapnels and Carcano WWI rounds rules the statistic top.

Where do you find the Carcanos.It,s not exactly rare but not a everyday caliber either.Just curious!

 

[AstralDruid]

I get a lot of musketballs and strangely plenty of "Anti- Rabies" alu capsules...
This year i have made a habit of finding women's knickers/panty... 4 pairs and two Bra's... Always makes for fun when showing the wife what i found...
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[beepbleep]

I have the largest collection of spent 22 lr cases. It might be gold...

 

[Upnorth42]

I find a lot of ox shoes. Oddly I almost never find a pull tab or a bottle cap.

 

[smallfoot]

I've got enough shards of cast iron to build several bean pots and parlor stoves...

 

[virginiabluecrab]

Our house is 260 years old. The land has been worked over in the past by trespassers with detectors. I find only the good stuff now....Old nails and plow parts. I have a knack for those.

 

[derschlings]

I HATE THESE... ring up like a silver dime. (the octagonal head is about the same size...)... they're old roofing shingle storm anchors.

 

[vpierceiii]

On the beach I find lots of alum tent spikes.

 

[Centsless Detecting]

For some reason in the park woods by me, its cut up lead wheel weights for car rims. There are no roads anywhere near where I find them.

 

[CASPER-2]

my first wife - no...really

 

[SlateBeltDigger]

Bits of old structural iron, snaps from windbreakers, and cheap non-historical buttons. My area was/is loaded with garment mills and they must have had button throwing contests on a regular basis. I can find handfuls at a time in the same area and at times the same hole. I am also a pro at digging the foil from the inside of plastic iced tea container lids lol. It's a round piece of foil attached to thick white waxy paper and they sound so good until I see them in my hand. I'm sure you've all been there.

I also forgot to add this one. Pieces of chain link fence used to attach the fence to the rails/posts. I find those on a regular basis too.

 

[bologna321]

I HATE THESE... ring up like a silver dime. (the octagonal head is about the same size...)... they're old roofing shingle storm anchors.
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I have one of these that says "Eternit" on it, i thought it was the adjuster to an oil lamp lol

 

[All About Tone]

1 Bottle tops by far.
2 Football boot studs
3 Keys
4 Old brass fixings
5 Washers

Somewhere in that order.

 

[cudamark]

1 Bottle tops by far.
2 Football boot studs
3 Keys
4 Old brass fixings
5 Washers


Somewhere in that order.

1. You mean screw tops? Yeah, those sound good. Crown caps get disc'd out for the most part.
2. In over 50 years of detecting (and over 100 different schools and ball fields), I've never found one. Aren't those steel?
3. I like finding keys. I have over 2700 of them now!
4. Same goes for brass and copper, lead. Bring them on! I cash in many pounds of those metals every year.
5. If they're brass, stainless, or copper, I'll take them and smile. Steel.....my detectors won't even see them if they're adjusted correctly.