MangoAve
12-14-2015, 10:52 AM
Friday I got out a little early from work so I could try and hit the permission. This was back at the place where three walkers, a medal spill, a balboa, and a few other things like a three ringer and an 1818 LC came up. Again I made sure it was ok. I pointed out to the son that the dog was digging up a hole right next to the foundation. At least it wasn't at me, but I heard the "really?" with the shaking of the head.
Right around the front corner of the house I was seeing a buried cable. I don't think it was the dog fence and sure wasn't electric. idk if it was the cable wire. Nearby, tho, I pulled up a tiny piece of the 'x' crossing of a fence, and below it was a merc. It at least had the 'S' Mint mark. One other iten I thought looked like jewelry but I thought it was mangled. Just turned out it was a little corroded. Vintage 1980's clip on earing. Guess It was one item I got where it was best to wash it to check before throwing it away.
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Saturday It was really nice weather and of course I was over dressed and sweating. I was questioning the situation. Google streetview was copyright 2014 (or that's what it showed). There were a few cars parked at the old house in the street view. The assessor had it listed as being state owned since 2002. I was actually looking for two cellars up the old road. Once I got there, I realized. The whole road was gated, so it was an even longer hike. The house is now abandoned. Not sure if it is worth a look. The two cellars, tho, are not so good. I walked all the way in and passed the end of the stone walls looking for the last cellar. About 100 ft before the end of the walls was a massive tree and a few other older trees. So I stopped and tried to extrapolate from my GPS to a correlation on the old map. I backtracked, but went inside the stone walls. After swinging that 100 ft and stopping once to dig an iffy target near the stone wall, which I was less than surprised when it was a bent piece of barbed wire, I eventually came to an open well. No cellar in sight. The 1934 map even had a big structure (prob a barn) across the road. There was no remnants of anything. Maybe a slight depression a few feet from the well. Right by the well, tho I pulled up a tiny button with the shank still on it. I kept swinging and swinging. Doing an orbit to the far walls. I changed the sensitivity 1 detent lower...which actually made the iron seem more visible to hear the active areas. (To remind, people, I hear a low beep or a click with the iron but no VDI. It is effectively discriminated but you can still hear it to tell there is iron). The only things that made any good signal were the two garden hoe tips.
So it was back to the closer cellar. There was way more activity there. Non stop iron by two far barns which had their own well. Right near the corner property stone I got a 94 VDI. It would not move. So I knew it wasn't falsing iron. Turns out it was a massive piece of brass. Something like the size of a wood stove top, but looks like it could be a shape of a serving tray. I didn't put much effort besides moving a lot of tree limbs by the far barns, and then a check of the cellar itself. Defeated I went back to the abandoned house with checking along the way. Just more and more junk. The most that came up from a 12 min check at the house was a memorial and a zincoln. It might still warrant another check, because some targets still were there. No recent dig holes anywhere. My guess is the house/yard wasn't checked after it was abandoned. It has a big field across the old 'road'.
This was the 94 VDI. My boot is at the left of the picture to show how big it was.
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I drove to a permission I had where I got my ox bell and two ox knobs. Turns out the front yard was hiding another nickel. Last time it was a dated buff. This time by the maple tree was a 1909 V nickel. It is black, but there is a change it might clean up. There is a fair amount of detail left on the front. Around the side yard I pulled up a wheat. I'm thinking to myself, where are all the old coins? Even the crotal was semi-newer having an iron tip. The house is 1840s. Sure enough, just a few feet from where I got the crotal a few weeks back, out comes my oldest silver. It may be a little rough, but the date sure is prominent and it's not as worn as some of these are. 1875 seated quarter. Finally, I got a silver before 1900. Yay! I also got a piece of a Conestoga bell. The tiny crotal is for size reference. I also got a 1936 dog tag. Second dog tag I have dug.
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Right around the front corner of the house I was seeing a buried cable. I don't think it was the dog fence and sure wasn't electric. idk if it was the cable wire. Nearby, tho, I pulled up a tiny piece of the 'x' crossing of a fence, and below it was a merc. It at least had the 'S' Mint mark. One other iten I thought looked like jewelry but I thought it was mangled. Just turned out it was a little corroded. Vintage 1980's clip on earing. Guess It was one item I got where it was best to wash it to check before throwing it away.
5191051913
Saturday It was really nice weather and of course I was over dressed and sweating. I was questioning the situation. Google streetview was copyright 2014 (or that's what it showed). There were a few cars parked at the old house in the street view. The assessor had it listed as being state owned since 2002. I was actually looking for two cellars up the old road. Once I got there, I realized. The whole road was gated, so it was an even longer hike. The house is now abandoned. Not sure if it is worth a look. The two cellars, tho, are not so good. I walked all the way in and passed the end of the stone walls looking for the last cellar. About 100 ft before the end of the walls was a massive tree and a few other older trees. So I stopped and tried to extrapolate from my GPS to a correlation on the old map. I backtracked, but went inside the stone walls. After swinging that 100 ft and stopping once to dig an iffy target near the stone wall, which I was less than surprised when it was a bent piece of barbed wire, I eventually came to an open well. No cellar in sight. The 1934 map even had a big structure (prob a barn) across the road. There was no remnants of anything. Maybe a slight depression a few feet from the well. Right by the well, tho I pulled up a tiny button with the shank still on it. I kept swinging and swinging. Doing an orbit to the far walls. I changed the sensitivity 1 detent lower...which actually made the iron seem more visible to hear the active areas. (To remind, people, I hear a low beep or a click with the iron but no VDI. It is effectively discriminated but you can still hear it to tell there is iron). The only things that made any good signal were the two garden hoe tips.
So it was back to the closer cellar. There was way more activity there. Non stop iron by two far barns which had their own well. Right near the corner property stone I got a 94 VDI. It would not move. So I knew it wasn't falsing iron. Turns out it was a massive piece of brass. Something like the size of a wood stove top, but looks like it could be a shape of a serving tray. I didn't put much effort besides moving a lot of tree limbs by the far barns, and then a check of the cellar itself. Defeated I went back to the abandoned house with checking along the way. Just more and more junk. The most that came up from a 12 min check at the house was a memorial and a zincoln. It might still warrant another check, because some targets still were there. No recent dig holes anywhere. My guess is the house/yard wasn't checked after it was abandoned. It has a big field across the old 'road'.
This was the 94 VDI. My boot is at the left of the picture to show how big it was.
51912
I drove to a permission I had where I got my ox bell and two ox knobs. Turns out the front yard was hiding another nickel. Last time it was a dated buff. This time by the maple tree was a 1909 V nickel. It is black, but there is a change it might clean up. There is a fair amount of detail left on the front. Around the side yard I pulled up a wheat. I'm thinking to myself, where are all the old coins? Even the crotal was semi-newer having an iron tip. The house is 1840s. Sure enough, just a few feet from where I got the crotal a few weeks back, out comes my oldest silver. It may be a little rough, but the date sure is prominent and it's not as worn as some of these are. 1875 seated quarter. Finally, I got a silver before 1900. Yay! I also got a piece of a Conestoga bell. The tiny crotal is for size reference. I also got a 1936 dog tag. Second dog tag I have dug.
519115191451909