Any ideas

[Look Down]

I am new to the world of metal hunting. I have a Minelab 3030, I have a great place to learn on. its an original homestead site with 27 buildings from around 1850. the county road used to pas by the main house about 100 years ago.
the family claims no one has detected the place and they have been there over fifty years. I cant find anything but old pieces of metal so far. they say the original family who steeled the town buried their gold down an old swale as the story goes. so I went and almost immediately by what appeared to be the oldest tree, got a really positive reading from my detector. the tree had grown around a copper something. it appears to be a container of some sort. the tree routs have completely encircled the object. I have pulled out through a small opening in the roots a pile of copper fragments, quite a lot it must ne large. is it worth keeping digging, I will have to cut the tree apart to move on.

 

[mudpuppy]

Naw...that aint nothing there!...Nobody back in the day buried a gold hoard in any copper container, it just wasnt cricket, move on to someplace else and leave that trash big copper signal behind, all grown into those tree roots and all...nothing but an old copper roof flashing, chamber pot or sewer pipe or somesuch....

(you ask if I'm bullcrapping you, well, yes, but YOU started it!)

Aint nobody here believing this unless you got pictures...so toddle back on off to Farmville or WOW and see how your characters are doing today...I think I see a damned hobbit stealing your carrots! And thats just what you get...trying to bullcrap some masters of the real world here in such an aggregious and bold faced sense....no wonder you couldnt talk your way out of that DUI last year...you gotta learn to tone it down to a believable level Son, or you will never get a girlfriend or your license back...! In the words of a famous modern poet, "got no money, got no car, got no girl, and there you are"
Mud

 

[GeorgeinSC]

Buildings from around 1850 never been detected and cant find anything with a CTX-3030?????????

 

[kansa54]

Lots of trash in areas like that. I wouldn't spend a whole lot of energy trying to recover something like that out of the tree roots.

 

[Hightone]

New to MDing and you bought a $2600 detector? The salesmen saw you coming.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Cutting a couple roots off of a mature tree will not hurt it any and you will always wonder what was down there. Yep, go find out what you got and bring a hand tree saw.

 

[ironsight]

I agree with Larry.
You're new to metal detecting and the only way to learn is to dig even if it turns out to be a piece of copper junk. I say go for it, you'll never know until you dig.
I'll bet a lot of us when we first started out spent a lot of time digging those visualized 'hoards' out of tree roots. I know i did.

By the way a lot of those old long gone home sites are littered with dense junk which could be overwhelming to a newbie especially a newbie with a CTX.

 

[yowow#1]

Naw...that aint nothing there!...Nobody back in the day buried a gold hoard in any copper container, it just wasnt cricket, move on to someplace else and leave that trash big copper signal behind, all grown into those tree roots and all...nothing but an old copper roof flashing, chamber pot or sewer pipe or somesuch....

(you ask if I'm bullcrapping you, well, yes, but YOU started it!)

Aint nobody here believing this unless you got pictures...so toddle back on off to Farmville or WOW and see how your characters are doing today...I think I see a damned hobbit stealing your carrots! And thats just what you get...trying to bullcrap some masters of the real world here in such an aggregious and bold faced sense....no wonder you couldnt talk your way out of that DUI last year...you gotta learn to tone it down to a believable level Son, or you will never get a girlfriend or your license back...! In the words of a famous modern poet, "got no money, got no car, got no girl, and there you are"
Mud

Take deep breaths mud. Apparently i missed the first part of this post,,, MUST of been a dandy to get mudpuppy so flustoaggrevamad.. ...Tomorrow the sun will come up and we will all smile again...... kidding around of course..

 

[mudpuppy]

I may have been a bit hasty...My apologies Look Down, if this was an honest request for help...

Maybe I misinterpreted? I read, paraphrasing here, " I have never metal detected, I just got a top of the line rig and am hunting a virgin spot where theres gold and silver stashed, I got a big signal under and old tree, should I dig it up"?

"I just bought a 40k dollar bassboat and have permission to fish a private stocked lake in Florida that nobodies fished for 50yrs, but all I am catching are bluegills, should I keep trying, or is it a waste of time?"

Ya see how dubious this sounds?

We sometimes get somebody who posts things similar like this that dont even have a detector, just playing around with us you know...anyway, if you got a 3030 as your very first detector, you will need some help to get to know it...and that means a lot of practice..watch all the youtube vids you can, read all the posts you can, and ask all the questions you must on the 3030 thread, then get out and use the thing!....Good Luck!
Mud.