Does anyone measure how deep their finds are?

[tjn63]

I mean actually measure realistically, not just estimate?
If so, how deep is the deepest penny or dime (large cents don't count) you've found with the Etrac?

 

[Sailorman]

My wife uses a garden trowel that has inches stamped on it. We use that scale to measure. Deepest penny in soil has been about nine inches. Dime the same. The bulk of coins seem to run between two and six locally. The beach is another story. Things can run to limit of detection routinely there.

 

[gunwolf]

I use my lesche to measure how deep, of course I don't think anyone is going to carry around a tape measure with all the other stuff we carry. I was a carpenter for 30 years so estimating how long something is ...I am pretty acurate. I would say I have dug memorials at 8" regularly, wheats at 10" regularly, and Indian heads were my deepest and one was actually 14"...keep in mind this was very damp soil and the numbers were all over the place.

I know you said large cents don't count, but for some reason all the large cents I dig are under 6"

 

[NebTrac]

I've dug an IH at a measured 11

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

I found a seated half dime at 10" and a merc at 11". I do not measure, but make an educated guess based on my Predator Tools Model 75 digger. It's 13" long with a 7" blade. Pretty easy to guess based on that.

 

[ryanchappell]

You can measure/estimate with your lesche very easily. The blade is 7 inches long, the handle 4 1/3", blade width 2", total length is a half inch shy of a foot - 11 6/16". If you find something half the length of your blade it is 3.5"

Borrowed pic from another thread.