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[digginLa]

While going thru the list of new geocaches that have been placed since I last searched for any in this area I came across one that is at the site of the original Delta Airlines building. There is commerative marker and some of the foundation left to show where the building was so I'd at least have a starting point if I wanted to try and hunt the site (its also on public land) I'm just not sure that there would be anything other than material from when the building was torn down to find but I guess theres a possibility that there could be some old coins there, my other problem is its in the middle of some woods and I don't know that I'd even have enough room to swing a detector. So what do ya'll think should I carry my detector in with me or is this one site thats probably not going to be worth trying to hunt it? If you'd like to see what the area around the site looks like the coordinates are N32 31.044 and W092 03.722 Jimmie

 

[Ism]

Probably a lot of construction scrap. I searched a couple such sites (not wooded) and for all the work I did and the gas to get there, only found a couple clad coins and pennies. But what the hey, it will eat you up inside till you get it out of your system.

 

[digginLa]

Well at least this site is only a couple miles from the house so at least I don't have far to drive to get there, guess I can do the geocache thing first then if it looks like I'll be able to swing a detector go back with my Cibola and probably the 5.75 coil.

 

[BusDigger]

Be interesting to know if they'd hauled-in any fill/topsoil..........and where it came from?

Smitty

 

[dixiedigger57]

Just done a demolition site in historic area near my office this week, and going back! The building was in river bank historic district in site of where we made several hundred on bottles and dug musket balls and tokens. i found clads galore in the top soil they brought to make a new sidewalk in front and plant trees, continuing a river walk area. one 43 quarter was cool with me, was told its 90% silver. I know theres more. brass hose nozzle, old heavy one, horse shoes, unknown junk coming out. I trade off the good brass to a knife maker and have several good usable blades, and he is going to forge me a digging tool from some re bar. always look for a way to make a buck, old wood, metal from old tracks,makes mini anvils, old bricks with various makers stamped, cobble stones, old drain covers may be bras, makes garden decors, broken ceramic for table tops mosaic style. it pays for the hobby. lead goes to a guy who casts bullets. pull tabs to charity at Ronald McDonald house, nothing wasted! If its real old look for privies and trash pits. they contain old bottles and buttons. watch for wells, can be dangerous or generous on yields. made good money on shallow ones. found several with detector picking up big iron, and finding glass frags and bottles retrieving signal. make a probe out of an old trunk rod from a car. there are two under the trunk lid on old cars, put a hole in one side of a 6 inch long one inch diameter pipe and braise the rod in, round the other end off, and you have a probe. test the dirt, and if has been dug and filled over the last hundred or so years, the probe goes in, wiggle and scratch, you will hits bricks or glass, will learn by sound, then the digging gets good if its a pit or well. detect the throw out dirt also. the old pros taught me this a few years ago, they have gone their ways, most of the sites dug, but there are some left with renovations downtown for me! where ever man goes, he leaves something! think out of the box, while playing with the box! happy hunting!

 

[digginLa]

From the caching logs that I read I don't think any fill dirt has been brought in as it was said you could still see part of the foundation, ahh well guess I either need to talk to a friend that has been to the site and see what he says or if I get the chance this weekend just go check it out myself.

 

[digginLa]

Got out to the site today and after finding the cache wandered around the place using my cibola with the 5.75 concentric coil wasn't able to find anything except for old crushed beer cans. I did see some of iron pipes and a piece of metal on top of the ground but sadly I don't think its going to be worth going back to hunt it again. Jimmie

 

[Ism]

DixieDigger,

I found a site in a historic town near me and went to check it out. Historical aerials showed an old ball field existed in the 50's and the area didn't look like it had been occupied by buildings for a long time before that. When I got to the site, I found that the city decided to bring in fill and and make a park out of the area. I was sorely disappointed when I found the site blanketed with modern construction debris. Not only does it make the area hard to hunt, it put any old coins and relics under a deep layer of soil full of medium to high conductor trash as well as iron scrap. Sadly sometimes fill works in reverse.

 

[dixiedigger57]

ISM

the fill dirt locally sometimes comes from the historical district, the old comes down, and they scrap the lot for the new style construction. the bad part is the city landfill gets too much of the dirt, and its definitely off limits. we had access to a big piece of land the owner was letting dirt only come to, and bottles galore as well as tokens and stuff were found. as usual, some jerk poacher messes things up. the dirt gets mixed in, like the local 1700's fort that had a school in the 30's next door to it. friend helped archaeological folks with detector, amid some objections "of the devil machine people" haters. they would have had nothing had not he turned them onto a spot he dug when they tore down school. they used backhoe and scraped off buried school debris, and he got them 150 plus buttons, some never seen,and not in reference books, soon to be displayed. Andrew Jackson stayed there, as well as Benjamin Hawkins.if its dirt, i check it!