DUCTMAN said:
I COULD REALLY USE SOME EXPERT ADVISE, I HAVE 3 SITES ALL HOMES WITH BARNS ALL BUILT IN THE 1830'S ONE OF THE HOMES WAS A GOVENERS HOUSE AND ANOTHER ONE WAS AN OLD INN, I AM STILL KINDA NEW AT THIS HAD MY MD A YEAR NOW I CAN NOT FIND ANY MONEY AND I SPEND ABOUT 4-5 HOURS EACH TIME I GO.
LOTS OF SQUARE NAILS AND PIECES OF ALUMINUM FROM THE SIDING OF THE HOME, THE ALUMINUM READS 34-36 I TRY MAINLY TO GO BY THE TONES BUT WILL A CORRODED COIN GIVE OFF A LOWER TONE?EVERY WHERE I PUT THE DAM THING DOWN GOES OFF A GOOD READING. WILL HOMES LIKE THIS NOT PRODUCE MUCH?I NEED TO FIND OUT WHERE THE MONEY MAKER SPOTS ARE. WHAT ABOUT THE STRIP OF GRASS BETWEEN THE SIDEWALK AND THE ROAD?I ALSO THINK A PLACE WHERE A FAIR OR SOMETHING HAS BEEN?
THANKS TO ANYONE THAT CAN HELP.. P.S I HAVE BEEN TRYING COIN AND JEW MODE BUT ALL METAL SEEMS TO GET A FASTER RESPONSE. JOE
Hello Joe, how's it going? Sounds like you have an interesting few sites to work on! Are the square nails copper? As for the barns, you might find some interesting finds like horse shoes, stirrups, harness bit and pieces, and the odd old shoes or buttons from shirts and trousers. You'll find buttons will read from +9 to + 11, and if you go over an area where your detector overloads, but the size of the object isn't all that big, it might be worth digging it anyway to see what you'll come up with. Some type of relic I would imagine like the iron relic mentioned above. The are the areas I would concentrate on if coin hunting: from the front door of the house/homestead, on either side of an existing footpath, and out toward any home dug gardens left behind. A good indication of a once existing garden are where ever bulbs beginning to flower, like dafodils: there you can be sure it's part of a garden, and like us today, the people back then would have droppped money from their pockets into the soil. Expect to raise your sensitivity over those areas, because if they were well cultivated and coins will be buried deeper than normal, anything from 12 to 16 inches down. If you're allowed to, it might pay to take off the first inch or two of top soil so the detector will read the deeper coins. Aluminium is a pain on any site, but you can diferentiate between it and coin metal. Usually I've found that aluminium gives a tinny higher pitched tone, whereas coins are more of a definite high pitched tone, slighly lower than the alum. It might just take a bit of practice to learn the tones, but you can do it. Put it this way, it's worth digging everything, and putting the rubbish aside as you're only going to help the detecting by getting rid of the junk, and leaving behind quite possibly the relic, especially if your sites are very trashy. But you'll find that by working on the sites for a while, you'll learn the tones that will tell you if it's junk or not. I have a few favorite sites that I visit every few weeks, and have been going back again and again for the last 4 or 5 years. I still pull out relics. It might interest you to know that it was several months once I first started detecting these sites before I started picking up coins. Sometimes, it just take time to get to know a site, and by you going back time and again , you'll get there.
The other areas to detect for coins are: think of where the clothes line might have been. Often coins would faal from pockets that hung on clothes lines, or loose buttons came off in the wind.I found buttons, coins, buckles and even a fob watch under a makeshift clothes. Amazing what's missed when washing all those years ago!
Check out any very old oak, pine or other decidous trees that Europeans might have planted. Often they buried there rubbish and planted a tree over the top. You might have a sprinkling of relics around these trees, and a possible bottle dump. If the dump isn't too deep, some of it's metal rubbish might be detected by your coil. I once found a dump this way with might detector, while looking for something else.
Current;y, I'm working on a brand new (old) homestead site. The main dirt road leading tp where the homestead once sttod is around 400-500mt long, and I've been detecting along it and found a few threepences dating in the 1950-1960. Nothing else was found, but coins!! Near an old sheep shearing enclosure I found a silver picture frame to my surprise.
I can't stress enough this point: don't use any other mode but All Metal Mode for working those sites. As much of a pian it can seem for all the noise it gives, put up with it. You will get use to it, and not miss anything. I don't use anything else on my sites, except occasionally if I'm checking out a specific site that merits using coin/jewelry, but it's always with a little discrimination. But then there's the nulling. Just depends on the site. the sites I go to mostly i have been hunting on now for years.
All I can say is, when you're at the site you're working on, try to imagine where people would have walked, played, ran, worked, and what they might have worn, held in their pockets, where they might have sat for a drink in the shade from the sun, that sort of thing. This will help you a lot in determining where to hunt, and quite possibly what you're likely to find, even before you find it! All the best with it Joe.
Golden
You say the nicest things!
