Hunting farm fields - worth it?

[midmich]

Not too far from me, there used to be a small community. I hear there were stores and even rail tracks came there. Today, it is nothing more than wide open farm fields owned by a single family. Do you think it would be worth detecting, if possible, after the crops come of? How do you think the coins would have held up?
Thanks

 

[Canewrap]

Ghost town sites are definitely worth it. Just recognize that you're going to have little to go on, unless you've got a map of the layout with some kind of landmark to use as a reference that is still there. Also, you'll probably want to run a series of straight-line patterns until you start picking up goodies and can map out the hotspots to focus on. As for it being a farmer's field, mostly the things that will suffer are some of the old buttons (some fertilizers will eat them up) and recent pennies. There will probably be a lot of iron you'll have to contend with, so be prepared for that. Chances are brass, copper, silver, and any alloy of those metals will have stood up fine. Gold isn't chemically touched by anything and looking for any old gold rings, jewelry, or coins would be enough reason for me to hunt a site like that. Good Luck!

 

[Deno]

Yes they are if the signs are there, look for broken pottery, marbles, square nails etc, any sign of human activity long ago. You find a good field like this and you will never want to hunt another yard.

 

[Marc(NB)]

all of my oldest coins and relic are from farm fields.You bet its a good site, if it was farmed and occupied for a long period of time.

 

[Bo]

I agree, farm fields are great area to hunt. I live on a farm and am fairly new to detectecting. I got in to it last January and have been addicted every since. One day after work before they planted crops I decided to walk an area of the farm and shortly started getting good targets. Over serveral days I found 59 wheats, 1939 merc, 1938 qrt, and several relics. I'm now waiting patiently for the crops to be harvested so I can get back out there and get back to it. Good luck!!

 

[midmich]

Wow, you guys got me stoked! Now to just get up the nerve to ask the owners. ,

 

[Deno]

You can't be shy. This is the best hobby in the world. Go get em, all they can say is no. It's surprising how many people will let you hunt if you are just decent about it. Work the fact that you metal detect into every conversation, you will get a lot of leads & sites like this.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Many people hunt farm fiels, especially relic hunters, and ancient artifact hunters in Europe. Every farm field used to be something else.

Bill

 

[Eu_citzen]

Ask the lads up in the UK in it is worth hunting farm fields! lol
It sure is!

Good Hunting!
Eu

 

[silversmith]

Unless the farm field has had a homestead on it (I've found several farms or ranches that did) you'd do better hunting a mouse in "Cat Town" Good luck.

 

[waltship]

Back about 35-40 years ago, a guy that worked at GM in Norwood Ohio got me to go MD ing with him in a corn Field before it was planted. There used to be a church there back in the late 1800s. The cemetery was still there, but the church wasn't. We found "V" nickles and three prong forks, big pennies, dimes, and other stuff. We had no discrimination on those detectors, so we found all kinds of things. Jump on the Field!