I went up north to visit my parents for the 4th of July weekend and had several hunts planned out. First stop was an old 1800's stage stop that previously had an occupied Victorian era house on it, but it was recently relocated. I planned to hit it on the drive up to my parents house, as it's on the way, unfortunately I didn't get out of work as early as I'd hoped to, so I only got to hunt for about an hour. The ground was hard as cement, and I only found old square nails and a powder ball with the Coinstrike, but it's worth a revisit this fall when the ground isn't so hard:
Watched a great fire works show at the local city park on the 4th, and thought I'd hit it at the crack of dawn the next day in hopes of finding some jewelry drops (the park was packed on the 4th). Unfortunately there wasn't any bling to be had, just lots of clad ($7.79's worth to be exact, found with my Fisher Coinstrike) :
My father's doing work on their backyard, so I thought I'd see if there were any goodies to be found while the yard was tore up using my Sovereign. The house was built in 1950, so I wasn't expecting to find anything too old, but I did manage to find twelve memorial cents, eight wheaties, a 1954 Rosie silver dime and a deep Tootsie Toy truck that some youngster had buried:
My best hunt was to an old homestead cabin. I remembered seeing it eighteen years ago when I hiked to the top of one of the beautiful mountains in the area with a girlfriend at the time to do some "sightseeing" and we found the old cabin during the course of the hike to the top of the mountain. I recently did some research on it and found that it was an early homestead cabin, actually the first on the mountain top. I decided to take my Sovereign on this trip. It was a much more difficult hike then I remembered it being, but I finally made it and found the cabin:
The family that homesteaded it planted orchids which are still doing well. I decided to hunt around it in the surrounding woods, and was finding lots of 100+ year old shell casings, a mother of pearl button, a black powder ball, and even an arrow head fragment:
I saved hunting directly around the cabin for last, and little did I know I saved the best for last when I dug a very nice key date 1903-S Barber dime about four feet in front of the front door. I haven't cleaned it, but looking at it with a magnifying glass the detail is excellent on it. The back just has caked on soil, which should be easy to clean off, and the front has some black oxidation that should clean up as well. I just need to figure out a way to clean it without screwing it up.
I suspect the cabin has never been detected since the Barber was such an easy find (only 4" deep) and in an obvious location. I also found the old trash dump. I think this fall I'll make another trip up and try to grid a 100 yard area around the cabin. There was supposed to be some additional cabins in the area where other family members with children moved after the first cabin was built, but I need to do further research to find where they were located as I didn't see them on this trip. I also posted this on the Sovereign forum as I used both the Coinstrike and Sovereign over the weekend on the hunts.
Watched a great fire works show at the local city park on the 4th, and thought I'd hit it at the crack of dawn the next day in hopes of finding some jewelry drops (the park was packed on the 4th). Unfortunately there wasn't any bling to be had, just lots of clad ($7.79's worth to be exact, found with my Fisher Coinstrike) :
My father's doing work on their backyard, so I thought I'd see if there were any goodies to be found while the yard was tore up using my Sovereign. The house was built in 1950, so I wasn't expecting to find anything too old, but I did manage to find twelve memorial cents, eight wheaties, a 1954 Rosie silver dime and a deep Tootsie Toy truck that some youngster had buried:
My best hunt was to an old homestead cabin. I remembered seeing it eighteen years ago when I hiked to the top of one of the beautiful mountains in the area with a girlfriend at the time to do some "sightseeing" and we found the old cabin during the course of the hike to the top of the mountain. I recently did some research on it and found that it was an early homestead cabin, actually the first on the mountain top. I decided to take my Sovereign on this trip. It was a much more difficult hike then I remembered it being, but I finally made it and found the cabin:
The family that homesteaded it planted orchids which are still doing well. I decided to hunt around it in the surrounding woods, and was finding lots of 100+ year old shell casings, a mother of pearl button, a black powder ball, and even an arrow head fragment:
I saved hunting directly around the cabin for last, and little did I know I saved the best for last when I dug a very nice key date 1903-S Barber dime about four feet in front of the front door. I haven't cleaned it, but looking at it with a magnifying glass the detail is excellent on it. The back just has caked on soil, which should be easy to clean off, and the front has some black oxidation that should clean up as well. I just need to figure out a way to clean it without screwing it up.
I suspect the cabin has never been detected since the Barber was such an easy find (only 4" deep) and in an obvious location. I also found the old trash dump. I think this fall I'll make another trip up and try to grid a 100 yard area around the cabin. There was supposed to be some additional cabins in the area where other family members with children moved after the first cabin was built, but I need to do further research to find where they were located as I didn't see them on this trip. I also posted this on the Sovereign forum as I used both the Coinstrike and Sovereign over the weekend on the hunts.
HH Randy