Delta Digger
Active member
I have been looking at this house down the road from me. Just never stopped to ask if I could hunt it. Well the other day temptation got the better of me and I stopped to see. Seen this lady out in the pecan orchard picking up pecans and ask if I could detect her yard. She said no problem just so you do not dig any big holes. I said mam you will never know I was even here. She began to tell me about the history of the place and when it was built. It was built in 1889 by a doctor and changed hands during the years to a plantation owner. The yard also still has the old commissary store and a few tenant houses. I am thinking this is a virgin spot no one that I am aware owns a detector around here. It sits on about 25 acres and I have not even detected all of the front yard yet. She told me if you find any old bottles while your digging let me know I said no problem. The house was moved back from the road in the 30s because it sat to close. This is where i found most of the coins mostly wheat's. I knew there had to be silver because of all the old Wheaties I was digging. the oldest is 1914 and the Rosie I dug was a 1947. Along with the Wheaties I dug a watch old lock a piece of lead two buffalo's and some sort of valve. The weather turned nasty with rain and the temperature dropping and I called it quits. There is so much iron in the ground that the etrac would null for 20 feet or more. Will run T.T.F. when I go over the area using Bills park pattern file. You can bet I will be going back.
