Doctorcoinz
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Lets pretend a new super deek seeker comes along that will find a silver coin at 36 inches down , how deep would you be prepared to dig. I think 12 - 18 inches would be my limit.
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How Deep would you dig ?
- Thread starter Doctorcoinz
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Frank in NH
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10" - 12" unless it was a sandy beach!
kaolinwasher
Well-known member
if on a soccer field , 10" if in a farm field 36" all depends
HanoverDigger
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I've dug shell frags close to 4 ft. deep, 3 ft. round. That's what it took to get them all. Found with a Whites Eagle II SL.
Low-Boy/LCPM
Active member
I would dig as deep as I can and I have done that many times sometimes I can't pry the target out then I give up..
As a general rule most coin size finds are in the top 6-8'' here in the UK,so for the most part they are your everyday digging depth,but of course because of our rich history i would not stop digging at that depth as if it gives a good 2 solid signal then i will carry on digging to find out what the target is either good or bad,would not sleep if had not dug a target and it could have been the holy grail of finds.
When deep hunting on either pasture or ploughed land and in a area that has all the hallmarks of a possible scattered hoard then i use the big fella the TDI with the big 20'' coil on,then however long it takes i will dig down to find what ever the target is once again either good or bad,most hoard as a general rule found over here are in the 15-24'' depth range,which is roughly the length of a mans arm when burying a hoard when he is laying flat on the ground,these figures are of course just rough guidelines but pretty reliable,so its very rare that i would dig deeper.
As they say 'he who dares wins the game' of course this is only my personal opinion on how i detect,but digging to say just 6-8'' when over the years most finds would have been cleared out over the decades by folks detecting from the 60s-80s,so my way of thinking is that one needs to go down just a little deeper to find the next 'possible' layer of finds,which of course would be older still that the top layer.I liken it to peeling the layers of a onion,by using say a more modern detector and slightly large coil you are able to go slightly deeper after all the junk and shallow targets have been found,so a larger coil can be used to your advantage.
When deep hunting on either pasture or ploughed land and in a area that has all the hallmarks of a possible scattered hoard then i use the big fella the TDI with the big 20'' coil on,then however long it takes i will dig down to find what ever the target is once again either good or bad,most hoard as a general rule found over here are in the 15-24'' depth range,which is roughly the length of a mans arm when burying a hoard when he is laying flat on the ground,these figures are of course just rough guidelines but pretty reliable,so its very rare that i would dig deeper.
As they say 'he who dares wins the game' of course this is only my personal opinion on how i detect,but digging to say just 6-8'' when over the years most finds would have been cleared out over the decades by folks detecting from the 60s-80s,so my way of thinking is that one needs to go down just a little deeper to find the next 'possible' layer of finds,which of course would be older still that the top layer.I liken it to peeling the layers of a onion,by using say a more modern detector and slightly large coil you are able to go slightly deeper after all the junk and shallow targets have been found,so a larger coil can be used to your advantage.