managed a couple of hours out this afternoon.

[Streak!]

didnt set the world on fire......but managed a couple of squeakers.
Used the F70, with the DD coil. all were from a really beat cellar hole I've hunted for probably three years now, with at least 6 different machines. It did better than I thought it would!
DE mode.....sens about 85.......... 0 disc.........2F tones....and a Gb value in the mid 60's. They were also all pretty hard to hear targets in heavy iron. None were great signals.....but all were "diggable" signals. I also got a few little chunks of lead, and a couple of flatties
a nice little domed flower button with the shank intact.
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What I believe is a really toasty Conn copper (pretty common around here)
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an odd little broach. This target was under a huge rock that took me 10 minutes to pry out of the ground. I think it was one of the rocks from the origonal foundation. All in all, it was maybe 11 inches deep.
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a crappy old suspender buckle

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three crotal bell frags.
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The F70 is turning out to be a capable little relic hunter!

 

[Jackpine Savage]

around here! 130 years is about the oldest and dang few of them. Connecticutt coppers "pretty common"... Sheesh!!

Good finds Streak!

 

[Streak!]

MOST of them had bad deeds to the properties they bought....so many of them had to BUY them again! (Shysters werent uncommon back THEN either). Because the bulk of the settlers came from Conn....the most often found coppers are from there .We also find a fair amount of Va half pennys, and some NY coppers. KG coppers are fairly common too.......and I snag three or 4 Reales a year here. (Last year I got 10....but found one "spill' that had 7 in it).
It not nearly as old or as good as a lot of New England states are...............but we have places relatively close to here that go back to the very late 1600's. MOST of My sites here are maybe 1760's to mid 1800's. not as old as I'd like...............but ya take what ya can get! Where are you exactly??

 

[Jackpine Savage]

I'm located in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan. Older sites around here mostly date to the 1870's-80's with a very few going back before the Civil War. We do get the occasional copper culture artifact which of course, makes for a great find. Although the copper comes from the Keewanau peninsula most copper funneled down through Wisc so there's not really a lot around my area.

Tom

 

[Streak!]

Mike Scott digs a lot of that....and its GOT to be a rush to dig the absolute oldest metal artifacts on the continent! your a lucky man!!!!