Last weeks old home finds

[Treasure Nut]

Got out last week and had permission to detect a 160 year old home. I befriended the elderly couple that live in this home for just over 60 years. Their house is only walking distance from where I live. Got some good historical background of the area around his home. Pretty much developed with new homes around it, but they have still a good size property.

This site is loaded with iron signals, such as nails and other junk, throughout the 160 years. The X-Terra 50 ground balanced good. Could only work with the sensitivity at 10 without being overwhelmed with all the signals coming back at me, for stable operation.

Oldest coins found were only a 1931 Canadian penny, an 1918 American wheaty, and a 1950 Canadian penny, at 8-10 inches depth. Very easy diggin'.

And here are the rest of my finds from this site that I decided to dig up that gave a better signal than iron (aside from the 2 square nails that littered the entire site). All targets were around the 8-12 inch range. (Sorry, not good at taking pictures)

 

[Steve(MS)]

Yes, that is definitely some of the finds I get around house places.
Old house places are one of the most challenging sites to hunt but I really enjoy hunting them because you never know what will turn up next.
Keep up the good work,
HH

 

[Treasure Nut]

I've got unlimited access to this site. The homeowners are surprised at what they have around their house. Seems in the olden days, they're property was used as a dump site. I've ordered a 6" high frequency coil to help me get between all the iron and pick out the good targets. Where there's pennies, there has to be some silver.

 

[Steve(MS)]

I think you are really going to like that coil. I use mine with the 2 tone(all metal) and dig those one angle hits that have any kind of repeatability. You will probably get some high tone falses or chirps, just try to pick the ones that repeat. When I run into big iron that locks on, I raise my coil and see how far I can pick it up and use prospecting mode to size it. I raise the coil about 3 or 4" off the ground while using prospecting mode, sweep from 4 directions, this usually gives my a good idea if it is a big chunk of iron.
I noticed too that some of that big iron that does gives a meter reading will have a low non-ferrous meter reading.
Hope this helps, you may find other techniques that work better for you.
HH

 

[Beale]

Congrats on that hunt! It sonds like a great spot. I wish you good luck with the continued hunting of it, Beale.