Front Yard/ Backyard

[silversmith]

You know...I'm slow, I admit it! Sometimes real slow, but even though I've had the data for years, I just put it together the other day. I remembered some years ago, while metal detecting an old house in downtown Fresno, I found lotsa old coins (hey that means Mercury dimes and "V" nickels, this is California) in the front yard and all I found in the back yard was buried tin cans. It hit me the other day, hey those folks didn't go in the back yard cause they didn't have garbage pickup like us. There was always an open hole full of stinking garbage out there, not even counting those ever smelly out houses in every back yard! So there ya go, metal detectors in the front, bottle diggers in the back!

 

[nad]

There was garbage pick up..The reason that most of the coins is in the front is that people sat in front of their house, on the front porch or the lawn..No TV, they socialized/visited..If the lawn was large enough, the kids played out front.Not a hard and fast rule, but we played on the side lawn. A childhood friend on site, we played in his back yard...In a small town environment, I find coins grouped into areas where people sat on the lawn..You will also find that for an era, there will be hot and cold yards..Kids tended to play in the bigger yards where the adults would put up with noise. So, for a several year period, one yard would get more things lost than the others..Look at a house as if you were a kid..But search everywhere...

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah no TV, no computer, no AC, no nothing, they sat in the front in the evenings. At farm houses they fed field hands in the yard close to the kitchen. Don't forget to locate the outhouse pits and probe them. They are a goldmine. Along where the clothesline was erected is another good spot.

Bill