Average depth of field finds these days?

[Canewrap]

I think I might have finally located a camp in a cattle pasture. My other camps have been in the woods and average finds were 6" to 8". For anybody hunting open fields, especially cattle fields, what average depths are finds coming from? Or, is that just too variable? Reason I'm asking is if I'm not finding much, am I just not getting deep enough?

 

[LaRelic]

Well I'm guessing you have found civil war finds that suggest a camp. If that's the case if the fields have ever been plowed for farming than finds can be very shallow. If not it might not be a camp, or a small camp. It is possible that dirt has been pushed around at one time or another making targets deeper. I use to have a camp that that had happend and were digging some targets like a box plate and shoulder scale at 12 to 14 inches. Keep looking around sometimes camp sights can be in a relatively small area depending on how many troops were there and also how long the troops stayed. If there were old homesites in the area that date to the period that is a great place to look. Most of the finds I find these days nearly always are around old homesites where a battle or campsite was. Don't give up to soon, I hunted an area for 2 years one time before I actually located the camp. But in general in undesturbed ground in my area I dig bullets and such at 6 to 8 inches. Don't give up to soon, persistence pays off!! Good luck...HH

 

[Cajuncoinhunter]

Relic average depth has no average to me. Good question but it really doesn't matter much too me. Farmers plow them up and bury them back every time they cultivate. Dig all good signals and the iffy ones too if you are in a good area. We've found box plates at 3 inches and half dimes at 10 inches. You just never know. Just my humble opinion. CCH

 

[Canewrap]

Thanks guys, this info does help. What have is a potential site around a church, but it sits in cattle pasture.