8 months later and four feet away....

[JimmyCT]

Approx 8 months ago I was at an old potato cellar and popped out this beauty.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?79,2094385,2094385#msg-2094385

Fast forward to today, I am back at the cellar hole with the ATPro and 5x8 coil. Due to the massive amounts of iron junk littering the ground, I turned sensitivity down to only three bars. Scanning extreme turtle slow ( in front of the opening to the potato cellar) I get a pretty jumpy signal. Slowing the coil down even more I managed to keep a steady TID at 67. Dig down into the rocky dirt and started pulling out nails and thick pieces of broken glass. The pro pointer is identifying multiple locations in the hole where there are signals. So take one more plunge into the dirt with the lesche and started to pry up the dirt and bingo! I see this glimmer of gold jump up out of the broken ground!! After pulling the coin out I realize it's really not gold after all Although I am tremendously impressed with this detector sniffing coins out of iron. I also found this ornate piece of jewelry right at the path entrance to the hunting spot. Any ideas to its age?

 

[John-Edmonton]

It's my favorite coil for relic hunting. Very sensitive and good depth too. You dug up some nice finds. Old jewelry is always a welcomed find.

 

[mudpuppy]

Sheesh, that spot sounds like a real challenge there Jimmy! Thats a cool coin!...

There were some wooden rowing boats built a while back with those names...Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite...I saw them in the Wooden Boat mag a few years ago, sweet rowing rigs they were, always wanted to build one similar to their lines, like a stretched Whitehall design kind of thing..plumb stem, wineglass transom...Thats an interesting potato cellar you got there! Nice work!
Mud

 

[JimmyCT]

Thanks guys. Mud, I am not into building wooden boats so I performed a web search to figure out what a stretched Whitehall design boat looked like. After seeing the boats that you have built, I have no doubts that you could make a masterpiece whitehall boat.

The potato cellar area is quite small but absolutely "crapped up" with everything imaginable and of course most of it is iron in one shape or another. With the iron audio ON and approaching the potato cellar, it reminds me of someone with a gieger counter getting closer and closer to the exact spot of a radiation leak or sounds like bacon cooking on high heat. Snap, crackin' and poppin'. I really need to get the 5" sniper coil for this area. Although, (I will say it again) for the size / shape of the 5x8 (even though there is a good amount of garbage under the coil at once) it can still decipher good with the bad.

One last note: I have run several high(er) frequency detectors (15-19khz) and it is my personal opinion that with the Garrett AT Pro Iron audio enabled, this truly makes hunting much more pleasurable and (to me) makes the task of determining ferrous and non-ferrous a tad bit easier. I am also learning that running with too much sensitivity can really turn a hunt into a nightmare as well.(especially when the person finds a heavy iron laden area) Today, I only ran two bars of sensitivity and although I didn't find anything to write home about, it stopped quite a bit of falsing on iron and really helped me concentrate on non-ferrous signals. With today's hunt I unearthed pulltabs, and little brass and nickel pieces that I have previously walked over in the past as I was running way too much sensitivity. It is a good little machine and if people slow the hell down (like myself lol) decrease the sensitivity, non-ferrous signals will jump out. In all reality, how much depth am I going to get, cranking the sensitivity up and knowing the ground is covered with iron junk? I am lucky if I found good non-ferrous items 3 inches deep today.

For anyone reading my mini-novel, The moral of the story: GB then decrease the sensitivity,( 2-3 bars of sensitivity MAX) slow way down, and double check the high pitch "jump throughs". Now get back to one of your dried up spots and try this method. Then come back onto findmall, tell us of your adventure and what you discovered. - Jimmy

 

[CZconnoisseur]

That's a good spot! Keep going back there and work it with lower disc each time and I'm sure more coins will show themselves! I used to have a spot like this in the big city that gave up DEEP and co-located old coins - got bored one day and dug out most of the iron hits but in the process a LOT of smaller (junk) jewelry turned up from various depths!

 

[lcdrn]

That's a beautiful coin! Also love the descriptive language -- "crapped up and jump-throughs".