Digger_O'Dell
11-26-2016, 09:31 PM
Hi all,
Got out for the day Friday despite the rain and snow off and on. The first stop was at an early 1800s settlement. I had hopes the park would give up something, but due to extensive terraforming I only found a piece of float copper and an old copper wheel hub of some sort.
Then it was off to an 1800s church and school site I've had a permission at. It's been pounded to death over the years by many others, but I had a few good finds I need the past. I had hopes that with the rains I would get better signals than the past several hunts where the ground was brick dry.
The first area was a swampy site where they finally mowed down the swampy grass. I know it's been hunted before too, but there used to be a foot path there leading from the church over a foot bridge nearby. Here I found a very deep stop watch frame and a cool old token which turns out to be a sailors luck charm. The design I found dates back to the 15th century, but has been used on tokens and charms until recent times so is nearly impossible to date.
56835
56836
After this it went back to the grassy field next to the church which gave up the goods in the past. Here I eeked out a Rosie and a merc, plus a late wheat.
Next place with only about an hour of daylight left just decided to try at the cemetery on the other side of the church. I was told it used to be the picnic area of choice a hundred years ago, and even had areas left unplanted to keep open area and to build an outhouse on. The bad part is there are low hanging power lines and big transformers that give off killer EMI. With some major tweaking I was able to get the CTX to behave somewhat and I was able to sneak out another merc, a 1904 IH, and a 1918 wheat by dark.
56838
56839
56840
The clad:
56843
Got out for the day Friday despite the rain and snow off and on. The first stop was at an early 1800s settlement. I had hopes the park would give up something, but due to extensive terraforming I only found a piece of float copper and an old copper wheel hub of some sort.
Then it was off to an 1800s church and school site I've had a permission at. It's been pounded to death over the years by many others, but I had a few good finds I need the past. I had hopes that with the rains I would get better signals than the past several hunts where the ground was brick dry.
The first area was a swampy site where they finally mowed down the swampy grass. I know it's been hunted before too, but there used to be a foot path there leading from the church over a foot bridge nearby. Here I found a very deep stop watch frame and a cool old token which turns out to be a sailors luck charm. The design I found dates back to the 15th century, but has been used on tokens and charms until recent times so is nearly impossible to date.
56835
56836
After this it went back to the grassy field next to the church which gave up the goods in the past. Here I eeked out a Rosie and a merc, plus a late wheat.
Next place with only about an hour of daylight left just decided to try at the cemetery on the other side of the church. I was told it used to be the picnic area of choice a hundred years ago, and even had areas left unplanted to keep open area and to build an outhouse on. The bad part is there are low hanging power lines and big transformers that give off killer EMI. With some major tweaking I was able to get the CTX to behave somewhat and I was able to sneak out another merc, a 1904 IH, and a 1918 wheat by dark.
56838
56839
56840
The clad:
56843