I need to get back out there........

[Bill Ladd]

I've been very busy w. other things lately. But I'm pretty sure the sensitivity of the T2, & now that I'm pretty confident with it, that should lead to me mustering up a few more goodies at some of the colonial cellar holes I thought we pretty much "worked out" already. This one here is a fine example that needs a look with the T2 as it was grown over & was only hit for an hour. Should be a great test.....
HH,
Bill

 

[jeff@middlesex]

n/t

 

[Bill Ladd]

My partner & I are pretty certain that when your like 2 miles deep into the woods that a site like this has never seen a detector before....which is a thrill

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Bill,

Looks like a good spot for the T-2, Keep us posted if any finds surface and most likely the T-2 will hit on the smaller stuff or an old coin on edge missed by the others.

Good luck,
Paul (Ca)

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

WHAT IS A CELLAR HOLE?????

 

[Bill Ladd]

usually dug out like the photo shows, & served as the root cellar for Colonial homes in my area. Refered to as a "cellar hole" as often all that's left is a hole or square depression in the forest......
& hopefully goodies in the soils around it

 

[Anonymous]

n/t

 

[snh]

Most of my celar holes are 2-4 miles in on old roads only a mule can use.
I have pounded them to death and feel sorry for anyone who comes along and thinks what you thought.
Plus I have hiked atleast 3 miles in to some places only to find piles of iron on the celar walls and old dig holes everywhere.
Not saying that this spot of yours is hunted and actually I hope it is virgin....as I know what it is like to hike that far....think this is a virgin site..oh baby...and then.....get Dick Butkus.
Hope it is virgin for you bro...just never be that sure...there are sick buggers out there who hike this far
snh

 

[Bill Ladd]

I know exactly what your sayin', but cellar holes are my favorite & I have hunted quite a few. As you pointed out, it's pretty easy to see very quickly if it's been hunted or not. You said it....little depressions in the ground, or the big iron along the walls is the dead give away. But, you mentioned roads. This is key as we are hiking deep woods with no dirt roads leading to or near these. We have found through experience that, as you say, most holes along cart roads have been hit hard already. The second foundation near this one produced this 1837 large cent not very deep. This would have been long gone if it was hunted already as even a newbie can clean out a site of all the big coins like this.....
HH,
Bill

 

[snh]

One of us got lost in the woods for a short time. Middle of nowehere..no roads...nothin....up pops a celar about the size of yours.
It was virgin...unfotunately not much came up save a few buttons but that happens. Sometimes people just did not drop much or live there long enough to lose much.
But yours looks good and after all it is the fun of searching it that counts.
snh

 

[Bill Ladd]

that the folks who lived out there were just subsistence farmers who lived off the land. If no shoe buckles or coins show up maybe they didn't even have coins to lose? Seems like a good theory anyways

 

[BuckeyeBrad]

You better use that spell checker! Or at least use quotation marks if you intentionally give it a "custom spelling". Amature? C'mon Bill, you don't want to be known as a poster boy that can't spell do ya?.

 

[Bill Ladd]

so many times before I was banned that I guess it slipped I never use spell check, & I knew it didn't look right but figured we spell things wrong so much on purpose that it wasn't a big deal

 

[BuckeyeBrad]

n/t