The day beckoned unseasonably cool for South Carolina, a light cloud cover tempering the normal August scorcher. It was decided to head back to the the token site from the other day. We had uncovered a number of aluminum coal scrip tokens there, what turned out literally be a field full of them.
And while they are pretty well eaten up from being aluminum, it was lots of fun to find them. And fun is what we love, right?
Once at the token site, met up with another guy, Bill G., and we three detected for awhile. He had found about 40 of the tokens the day before and his partner turned up many of them, as well. We continued to turn them up today, although certainly in lesser numbers. Between us, I'm guessing a hundred or so have surfaced...so much for them being rare!
Nonetheless, it seems to be playing out.
But there is still another 2 feet of dirt that needs scraping off, so who knows what will turn up in the future?
I was relying on my trusty Golden, today, as there was little need for the punch and high tech of the F70 here. And the simplicity and tones of the Tesoro are nice to have in an iron infested site like this one. After a while, my partner Hal came over and asked if was ready to go. He'd had enough of the trash and diminishing finds, apparently.
Truth is, he was itching to check out a new site we recently stumbled upon out in the woods. Since this new spot features an old well and foundation sink deep in the woods, I wasn't gonna start whining too loudly!
Being the gentlemen we are (you had no doubts, right?), we bid Mr G. Farewell and Good Hunting and took off.
The woods site was interesting. It was apparent to me that bottle diggers had been there long ago, as old bottles poked out from under the leaf litter here and there. Diggers often toss the worthless bottles aside to languish on the ground, tipping off future seekers that are not the first on the site.
But, it also appeared that this place has since been forgotten. There was little sign of any recent traffic, so we will either find the scraps left by detectorists from 30 years ago - or hit a hot spot. We have an entire winter to find out!
I did turn this up today:
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I'm not really sure what it is, although I'm pretty sure it didn't come from WalMart any time lately! It rung in like a large can, impossible to miss. This makes me think it was either a blind luck find - or somebody did a bad job of searching in the past.
I'll hope for the latter, of course.
Here's the total finds for the few hours we hunted:
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Hope you got to it today!
And while they are pretty well eaten up from being aluminum, it was lots of fun to find them. And fun is what we love, right?
Once at the token site, met up with another guy, Bill G., and we three detected for awhile. He had found about 40 of the tokens the day before and his partner turned up many of them, as well. We continued to turn them up today, although certainly in lesser numbers. Between us, I'm guessing a hundred or so have surfaced...so much for them being rare!
Nonetheless, it seems to be playing out.
But there is still another 2 feet of dirt that needs scraping off, so who knows what will turn up in the future?
I was relying on my trusty Golden, today, as there was little need for the punch and high tech of the F70 here. And the simplicity and tones of the Tesoro are nice to have in an iron infested site like this one. After a while, my partner Hal came over and asked if was ready to go. He'd had enough of the trash and diminishing finds, apparently.
Truth is, he was itching to check out a new site we recently stumbled upon out in the woods. Since this new spot features an old well and foundation sink deep in the woods, I wasn't gonna start whining too loudly!
Being the gentlemen we are (you had no doubts, right?), we bid Mr G. Farewell and Good Hunting and took off.
The woods site was interesting. It was apparent to me that bottle diggers had been there long ago, as old bottles poked out from under the leaf litter here and there. Diggers often toss the worthless bottles aside to languish on the ground, tipping off future seekers that are not the first on the site.
But, it also appeared that this place has since been forgotten. There was little sign of any recent traffic, so we will either find the scraps left by detectorists from 30 years ago - or hit a hot spot. We have an entire winter to find out!
I did turn this up today:
[attachment 138484 DSCF0118.JPG]
I'm not really sure what it is, although I'm pretty sure it didn't come from WalMart any time lately! It rung in like a large can, impossible to miss. This makes me think it was either a blind luck find - or somebody did a bad job of searching in the past.
I'll hope for the latter, of course.
Here's the total finds for the few hours we hunted:
[attachment 138483 DSCF0117.JPG]
Hope you got to it today!
