Well after trying to find an old mining camp, and burning about $15 of fuel in the process, I gave up and headed to the nearest town.
I started at the school and came up with this great Navy challenge coin. Its gold plated and very heavy. After plucking about 12 quarters and some other clad, I came up with the 1953 S dime. MY FIRST SILVER COIN!!!!! I was so happy. Ive been finding gold rings lately, but i really wanted to find an older coin, call me crazy. After a brief happy dance, I kissed it and put it in my finds bag and continued to hunt. A few more quarters later, i found the cars. They were next to a tree about 4 inches down and a foot away from each other. I also found a couple cool buttons (one looks very old) and a couple necklace pendants. The larger one is 18kgp white gold with a freshwater pearl. I did the happy dance yet again for this one.
I'm saving my favorite find for last. I finished up hunting the school (actually i was just hungry and went to go get a bite to eat). I really only covered about 10% of the field there. After lunch I decided to head down to the river adjacent to the town. I decided to take the path less traveled down to the river and swing the detector on the way and dig all signals. I found the old nozzle thing at about 6 inches down. It kinda looks like a seltzer bottle top. About 10 feet away I get a really strong, and small signal, which ended up being my FIRST METAL ARROWHEAD. I have found regular arrowheads before, but never a metal one. This area had a ton of native american activity in the mid to late 1800s and artifacts are pretty commonplace around here. I'm guessing the metal was obtained by trading with or robbing the palefaces.
Thanks for looking and happy hunting.
I started at the school and came up with this great Navy challenge coin. Its gold plated and very heavy. After plucking about 12 quarters and some other clad, I came up with the 1953 S dime. MY FIRST SILVER COIN!!!!! I was so happy. Ive been finding gold rings lately, but i really wanted to find an older coin, call me crazy. After a brief happy dance, I kissed it and put it in my finds bag and continued to hunt. A few more quarters later, i found the cars. They were next to a tree about 4 inches down and a foot away from each other. I also found a couple cool buttons (one looks very old) and a couple necklace pendants. The larger one is 18kgp white gold with a freshwater pearl. I did the happy dance yet again for this one.
I'm saving my favorite find for last. I finished up hunting the school (actually i was just hungry and went to go get a bite to eat). I really only covered about 10% of the field there. After lunch I decided to head down to the river adjacent to the town. I decided to take the path less traveled down to the river and swing the detector on the way and dig all signals. I found the old nozzle thing at about 6 inches down. It kinda looks like a seltzer bottle top. About 10 feet away I get a really strong, and small signal, which ended up being my FIRST METAL ARROWHEAD. I have found regular arrowheads before, but never a metal one. This area had a ton of native american activity in the mid to late 1800s and artifacts are pretty commonplace around here. I'm guessing the metal was obtained by trading with or robbing the palefaces.
Thanks for looking and happy hunting.
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