Full Metal Digger
04-07-2014, 06:25 PM
Hey diggers,
Sunday I decided to head about an hour north of here to hunt an old school grounds. I told Tony Two-Cent about it so he could check it out on Google Earth. He agreed the site looked very promising. I got there bright and early and almost immediately got a 10-35 signal at 9 inches deep. Sounds like an Indian head penny to me I thought. I cut my plug and dug down into the very soft soil and popped out a ZINC FREAKING PENNY! 9 inches deep! A few feet away I got a solid 10-45 at 10 inches deep and out pops a beautiful memorial penny... Next I dug a clad dime at 10 inches. This is crazy I thought. I spent 1 hour there and could not find anything older than 1970s. This was not fill dirt either. Just nice black soil. I decided it was Indiana dirt! Tony and I know all about that kind of dirt. Super soft and everything sinks too deep. Off to another site.
I was driving and noticed a small town on my GPS. Maybe one square mile in size and all the houses seemed 1890s to 1920s. As I was driving around looking to see if they had a park I noticed the street sign said "School Street." A-ha, a possible old school! I drove all 5 blocks of School Street but no school. However, at one end was a big field with an old dilapidated baseball backstop. Then I noticed the old broken up sidewalks that led out into the middle of the field. BINGO! I spent 3 hours there and of course it was apparent I wasn't the first metal detector there. A few bits of modern clad and only a couple wheat cents. Lots of nickels though! I found several deep nickels, 3 of which were toasted buffalo nickels. As I worked around an old walnut tree I got a distinct 12-38 down about 8 to 9 inches. I was hesitant but decided to dig it anyway. Out came a little silver pin with something dangling from it. I wiped the dirt off and realized I had found a WW2 sweetheart pin! The back is marked Sterling + 1/20 10K. By now it was 4:30 so I packed up and headed home. I was disappointed to not find any silver coins but a silver & gold piece of jewelry will do any day! Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.
p.s. While I was hunting the park a guy kept coming out of his house and asking if I had found anything. I showed him the buffs and 6 wheaties and mentioned I had not found any silver coins. 4 times he came out to see how I was doing! (yes 4) On the 4th time he admitted he had a Whites MD and had hunted the park for years. He didn't think anything was left to be found. He asked what MD I had and I showed him my e-trac and some of the features it had.
Sunday I decided to head about an hour north of here to hunt an old school grounds. I told Tony Two-Cent about it so he could check it out on Google Earth. He agreed the site looked very promising. I got there bright and early and almost immediately got a 10-35 signal at 9 inches deep. Sounds like an Indian head penny to me I thought. I cut my plug and dug down into the very soft soil and popped out a ZINC FREAKING PENNY! 9 inches deep! A few feet away I got a solid 10-45 at 10 inches deep and out pops a beautiful memorial penny... Next I dug a clad dime at 10 inches. This is crazy I thought. I spent 1 hour there and could not find anything older than 1970s. This was not fill dirt either. Just nice black soil. I decided it was Indiana dirt! Tony and I know all about that kind of dirt. Super soft and everything sinks too deep. Off to another site.
I was driving and noticed a small town on my GPS. Maybe one square mile in size and all the houses seemed 1890s to 1920s. As I was driving around looking to see if they had a park I noticed the street sign said "School Street." A-ha, a possible old school! I drove all 5 blocks of School Street but no school. However, at one end was a big field with an old dilapidated baseball backstop. Then I noticed the old broken up sidewalks that led out into the middle of the field. BINGO! I spent 3 hours there and of course it was apparent I wasn't the first metal detector there. A few bits of modern clad and only a couple wheat cents. Lots of nickels though! I found several deep nickels, 3 of which were toasted buffalo nickels. As I worked around an old walnut tree I got a distinct 12-38 down about 8 to 9 inches. I was hesitant but decided to dig it anyway. Out came a little silver pin with something dangling from it. I wiped the dirt off and realized I had found a WW2 sweetheart pin! The back is marked Sterling + 1/20 10K. By now it was 4:30 so I packed up and headed home. I was disappointed to not find any silver coins but a silver & gold piece of jewelry will do any day! Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.
p.s. While I was hunting the park a guy kept coming out of his house and asking if I had found anything. I showed him the buffs and 6 wheaties and mentioned I had not found any silver coins. 4 times he came out to see how I was doing! (yes 4) On the 4th time he admitted he had a Whites MD and had hunted the park for years. He didn't think anything was left to be found. He asked what MD I had and I showed him my e-trac and some of the features it had.