love hate relationship 1817 house!

[calabash digger]

[attachment 331114 DSCN1052.JPG][attachment 331115 DSCN1055.JPG][attachment 331116 DSCN1056.JPG][attachment 331117 DSCN1057.JPG]This site just refuses to give anything up much,ive hunted it a 100 hours or more and ive got 2 flat buttons,a 1902 barber quarter,and a small eagle cuff button that was found while trenching. The problem is the trash the house was lived in up until the 1990s and there is a 50 yard perimeter of it around the house it sounds like a machine gun going off everytime you move the coil. I know something good has to be here there are way to many non ferrous targets in the ground for it to have been hunted much but those targets are just modern trash and old pieces of copper and such.Anyone had a site like this before? I am a trash hunter but this place takes the cake any suggestions?

 

[Elton]

Many claim they had very little to lose way back when.. and that has proved to be the case with most old ones I have hunted.. Yet others find coin, after coin........


I would dig every target if you can stand it. A Lot of the real old coins do not ID as you would expect... much lower in fact. 50's on a F series Fisher for example.

 

[CZconnoisseur]

Select a 10ft X 10ft square and mark the corners. Dig up every non-ferrous hit inside the square, and then go back over it with less discrimination and/or notching.

 

[calabash digger]

thanks the 10 x 10 seems manageable and thanks for the info on the coin ID about being lower.Elton I know they were wealthy because I know the history of the house but maybe thats why they had it because they didnt lose any of it.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

I would recommend starting on the outer perimeter and then work towards the house...if you can get out of the heavy trash you might get a better feel for how to hunt the trashier areas... might try high traffic routes such as between house and barn or well or source of water... if its as thick as you say i would crank the disc up to like 75% or so... ive seen some of your finds and im sure you will figure out a successful strategy. .. good luck... hey your in carolina right? do you guys ever have any luck around those old tobacco shacks?

 

[After-1-]

I would check under that porch, trees could have had a swing.--------Slow & slow---------Maybe turn the sens down to half of normal -----------after1--------

 

[calabash digger]

I would recommend starting on the outer perimeter and then work towards the house...if you can get out of the heavy trash you might get a better feel for how to hunt the trashier areas... might try high traffic routes such as between house and barn or well or source of water... if its as thick as you say i would crank the disc up to like 75% or so... ive seen some of your finds and im sure you will figure out a successful strategy. .. good luck... hey your in carolina right? do you guys ever have any luck around those old tobacco shacks?

I found the 1902 barber by the tobacco barn and my friend had found a presidential token an old one at another site cant remember who was on it. I probaly will use this as a fall back site when im bored and just do areas at a time. We have found a couple of trash pits but not the privy or cloths line its just so trashy cant tell where it was..there are oyster shells and bricks all around the perimeter of the house just cant get it down, DIG A a hole and see brick and shell and old dish and out flys a bottle cap! go figure

 

[masterjedi]

Yes... We have an historic house here we call the crazy house. It has trash and metal just lying on top of the ground. I finally went to a 5" coil and now the treasure is starting to come out.... I hope great luck to you!

 

[TheDetectorDude]

We went to a site that was exhausting to get to but is a torn down house. Same experience audio sounds though. I dug a small hole to sample the ground and pulled out two handfuls of square nails. Huge square nails, small nails everywhere nails. The cellar is visible but the bricks are piled up in it along with parts of the tin roof. That place has probably got something really nice in it but the trek to get to it then pile and stack those huge bricks leaves little in the tank. We've got permission to go anytime there so I may try again.

 

[calabash digger]

Try it again got to be treasure there! The nails I can deal with its the modern trash that sounds of good and you dig it and go man I just knew that had to be something good.Does your site have modern trash?

 

[TheDetectorDude]

No not really. I've taken a 5 gallon bucket there and filled it with nails, pipe and tin parts. My son found a sweet pocket watch that we think was late 1800s. It had a large deer on the back of it. I did find a decorative piece of metal that looked to be a broach maybe. The trail to get to it is used by cattle and it's very steep. I've got a hard hat now and may try it again. If nothing else I'd like to get some of those bricks they're huge. The property owner couldn't be nicer too. If I go I'll take the Deus and try high reactivity.

 

[MattBullSummerville]

I'm not familiar with a Deus, but maybe lowest frequency and smallest coil you have for trying to find silver. To pull anything out of there sounds like a challenge for sure.

 

[calabash digger]

next time I hunt it im gonna drop it to 8kh and see if that will sniff some silver out.

 

[timwied]

I hunted an old site like that, lots and lots of trash and tons of bullets of every size, none old, so we pulled out and found another old place. I do a lot of laptop time and searching for the owner time, searching out my permissions. I drop the pins on Maps on my phone, so if I'm out and about, I turn on Maps and see whats closeby, then I knock on doors! Had pretty good luck, only had one guy say "NO". He has the right, so I thanked him, shook his hand and left. My digging buddy and I can't believe how much we've found in the last 2 years! All these years we've been driving less than 100 feet from or walking within 2 inches under our feet of Civil War Relics, who would have known. I'd personally find another old permission, but then again, you may find something really cool too, never know. Good Luck