z118
09-12-2011, 06:01 PM
So anyone reading my posts will likely have noted my references to this season's sweet spot. I was hesitant to post too many details, but now that the digs have come and gone, here's a summary of sorts.
Long story short, the sweet spot in question was a construction job in my town. They did a bit of construction in two places; one was along a road bordering an old park, and the second was between a road and the old schools in my town (built in 1922 and 1934). From these two spots I wound up pulling 45 silver coins, 5 Indian head Cents, a Canadian large cent, 5 Buffalo nickels, and around 200 wheat pennies. I also dug a nice gold ring, some cool relics, and around 700 clad coins. And I eyeballed some good stuff too - mostly marbles. I can only imagine how many are left buried in the dirt.
The majority of finds came from in front of the two schools. They scraped the entire area between the front of the schools and the street - maybe 50' wide by about two blocks total. The scrape gave up a large number of good finds, and many hunts following were spent in the resulting dirt pile, and then in the areas where they later spread the pile. The whole experience was a real eye opener. I'm now convinced that there's treasure everywhere, and that treasure is regularly being buried beyond the range of detectors. Much of the dirt they scraped which I am certain contained old coins and silver was used to fill deep holes and is now beyond reach.
I ran into three other detectorists at this spot. I'm not sure how they did. I don't think they had the luck I did, if only because they were not there almost daily like I was.
The Etrac ran like hell here. I had hunted these spots before the construction with the Sov, and like most places in my town, the detector would barely run there. In the scraped dirt the Etrac would manage a sensitivity of around 12 in auto - at best. In manual it was insufferable with never ending falsing at almost any sensitivity setting. I started digging just about anything that gave a signal, which was only possible because it was a construction site and there was no worrying about holes or grass or leaving a mess.
The pics below... 1 - All the old coins from this spot, minus the wheats. 2 - all the relics of sorts; keys, buttons, tags, compacts, token, etc. 3 - the cool eyeball stuff, mostly marbles. 4 - the best 3 finds - the 1st Sep Co item is silver and dates to the late 1800's to early 1900's, the quarter is my oldest dated quarter, and the ring is 10k with a cloudy green stone.
I'm very pleased to have had this opportunity. It really saved my season, which was otherwise shaping up rather poorly. Now the construction work is completed, and the area is cleaned and seeded and looking green and new and nice. Every time I drive by I think about the fun I had hunting there and the goodies I found.
Anyway... that's my story!
Long story short, the sweet spot in question was a construction job in my town. They did a bit of construction in two places; one was along a road bordering an old park, and the second was between a road and the old schools in my town (built in 1922 and 1934). From these two spots I wound up pulling 45 silver coins, 5 Indian head Cents, a Canadian large cent, 5 Buffalo nickels, and around 200 wheat pennies. I also dug a nice gold ring, some cool relics, and around 700 clad coins. And I eyeballed some good stuff too - mostly marbles. I can only imagine how many are left buried in the dirt.
The majority of finds came from in front of the two schools. They scraped the entire area between the front of the schools and the street - maybe 50' wide by about two blocks total. The scrape gave up a large number of good finds, and many hunts following were spent in the resulting dirt pile, and then in the areas where they later spread the pile. The whole experience was a real eye opener. I'm now convinced that there's treasure everywhere, and that treasure is regularly being buried beyond the range of detectors. Much of the dirt they scraped which I am certain contained old coins and silver was used to fill deep holes and is now beyond reach.
I ran into three other detectorists at this spot. I'm not sure how they did. I don't think they had the luck I did, if only because they were not there almost daily like I was.
The Etrac ran like hell here. I had hunted these spots before the construction with the Sov, and like most places in my town, the detector would barely run there. In the scraped dirt the Etrac would manage a sensitivity of around 12 in auto - at best. In manual it was insufferable with never ending falsing at almost any sensitivity setting. I started digging just about anything that gave a signal, which was only possible because it was a construction site and there was no worrying about holes or grass or leaving a mess.
The pics below... 1 - All the old coins from this spot, minus the wheats. 2 - all the relics of sorts; keys, buttons, tags, compacts, token, etc. 3 - the cool eyeball stuff, mostly marbles. 4 - the best 3 finds - the 1st Sep Co item is silver and dates to the late 1800's to early 1900's, the quarter is my oldest dated quarter, and the ring is 10k with a cloudy green stone.
I'm very pleased to have had this opportunity. It really saved my season, which was otherwise shaping up rather poorly. Now the construction work is completed, and the area is cleaned and seeded and looking green and new and nice. Every time I drive by I think about the fun I had hunting there and the goodies I found.
Anyway... that's my story!