RIdirtdigger
12-13-2014, 06:52 PM
4492444925449294493044935449364493744938This week is finals week at URI but I don't have any exams until next week so this opened up some time to detect (and study of course). On Friday morning I left the house at the crack of dawn to head to an old foundation I had discovered on a hiking trail during the summer. The place was way to overgrown during the summer but was much better now. My first signal was in the low 80's and I dug up an old Waterbury CT clock part. It had the patent label and everything. I then swing my detector near a tree and get a solid 81-82 signal. I dig down and for a second, I see a silver edge but it turned out to just be a 1935 wheat penny. I then venture up a hill a little ways away from the old foundation and stumble upon another foundation and then onto a massive, trash dump. There are bottles, plates, pottery, metal, and almost everything imaginable scattered around the hillside behind the foundation. Most of the bottles are broken but I took home two of them. I'm gonna go back there sometime and dig the place up to hopefully get some more bottles. The bottles are all pre 1970 but there's some old stuff there as well. Later on I moved away from the dump area and dug a piece of brass that has the words BCI CO Pat. Feb 9 92. I looked it up online and found out that's it the brass piece to a wooden gun cleaning rod, so that pretty cool. I got a lot of trash from that site too.
On Saturday I headed up to Massachusetts to meet up with SamC. We went to a public hiking trail and detecting around some old cellars. The entire area is really iron infested and also has been dug likely many times before. I didn't get any good non-ferrous targets from the first cellar so we decided to walk up an old cartpath to the next cellar. On the cartpath I dug what looks to be a pistol ball or small musketball. I faired much better at the next cellar. I dug a few shell casings before moving over to the old path that went right by the cellar. I get a 69-71 signal only about 1 inch deep. I decide to dig it but don't really expect much. To my surprise I see a coin right next to the plug I dug. I pick it up, gently rub it and notice its not a wheat penny! I shout "I think its an indian" and call SamC over. I hand him the coin and he tells me the date is 1864. An 1864 Indian head penny! I was super excited. It was my oldest indian and first since the Spring. Later on I dug a strange relic that has an ornate design. SamC got some buttons and a horse tack buckle. I had a lot of fun detecting and Sam's company made it even better!
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On Saturday I headed up to Massachusetts to meet up with SamC. We went to a public hiking trail and detecting around some old cellars. The entire area is really iron infested and also has been dug likely many times before. I didn't get any good non-ferrous targets from the first cellar so we decided to walk up an old cartpath to the next cellar. On the cartpath I dug what looks to be a pistol ball or small musketball. I faired much better at the next cellar. I dug a few shell casings before moving over to the old path that went right by the cellar. I get a 69-71 signal only about 1 inch deep. I decide to dig it but don't really expect much. To my surprise I see a coin right next to the plug I dug. I pick it up, gently rub it and notice its not a wheat penny! I shout "I think its an indian" and call SamC over. I hand him the coin and he tells me the date is 1864. An 1864 Indian head penny! I was super excited. It was my oldest indian and first since the Spring. Later on I dug a strange relic that has an ornate design. SamC got some buttons and a horse tack buckle. I had a lot of fun detecting and Sam's company made it even better!
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