Jewelry question

[archer]

I have had my x-70 for a few weeks now and am finding more and more coins as I familiarize myself with it. I have been hunting an area behind the HS bleachers where kids have played, wrestled, fought and made out for the last 30 years on game nights. I am finding coins but none of the trinkets (pendants, bracelets, rings etc...) I would expect to find. I suspect I am bypassing them as a bad signal.

My question is how do I identify these type of items?

 

[Digger]

As most of us who have been detecting for awhile will tell you..... you'll never know for sure unless you dig it. The unfortunate thing about modern trash is that the conductivity is similar to many jewelry type items. Not all, but many. Jewelry items will range all over the discrimination spectrum. From lows near zero to numbers in the upper 30's. Yellow gold a bit higher than white gold or rose gold. And Platinum a bit lower than gold. With that said, most small gold jewelry items will read the same as foil or small pieces of aluminum can slaw. Pulltabs can read the same as some gold rings. And larger gold rings can read the same as some aluminum screw caps. The best advice I can give you is to look for the consistency in your audio, target location and lastly, the TID. If the sound is solid when you sweep it from all directions, dig it up and see what it is. If you find yourself digging all kinds of pulltabs that read 22 (for example), you may want to dig everything except more TID 22. But remember, sure as the world, the first 22 you don't dig will be a gold ring! Murphy's law!!! HH Randy

Oh, and once again.....

 

[plugger]

and the audio on rings with big stones may sound trashy too. More than one ring together will sound trashy as well. At the beach, I like to hear those "trashy" signals. If it sounds like a quarter, and reads like a quarter, it probably is. But, if it sounds like a quarter and reads in the high teens to mid-20s, it may be a gold ring. You never know until you dig!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

as mentioned, you really have to dig it all and small thin rings and things ID and sound like trash. My gold coin ID's and sounds like a German pull tab, 32 on VDI air test. If you are digging nickels then you probably are not missing much, nickels play a bounce around game like the gold and silver can. If you can't get a solid target ID, best to dig it, could be a masked target and the Minelabs do a good job with target separation, I have dug several targets with two different metals in the hole. The area you are detecting will be tough with pull tabs and bottle caps. HH and good luck, the best discriminator is a shovel, Mike