Not so good a day........

[Old Katz]

Went back to the old house built in 1865. Got there before the rain set in.
I I thought it was a virgin site but I guess not. I spent hours there and dug
all sorts of junk. Found a few wheat cents the first time I went and today only
found a 1957 Silver quarter. At least I came away with something. You can see
some of the typical junk I dug. There was just tons of back yard junk everywhere.

First of all I dug tons of junk; it was everywhere. Second of all I suspect someone else at some point had already
been there even though the owner said to her knowledge no one had MDed there. The key words are "TO HER KNOWLEDGE."
Its right on the highway for everyone to see. I don'y usually bother with any site thats on the highway because my experience
has been that anybody and everybody with a metal detector has probably hit the place. I'd much rather spend my time on a
project out of visual range of everyone.

I started out with the 9.5 coil but was getting too many "HOT ROCK" signs so I switched to the 6x10DD coil and that seemed to
stop the hot rocks from coming up.

I'm thinking there might be older coins still deeper that my DD coil wasn't picking up. Every so often I'd get irradic signals that
were 12 inches, but with the smaller coil I suspect it was a large target and probably junk, especially in the front yard.

Any opinions about this situation. There SHOULD have been much older coins there if this place indeed was virgin territory.

Katz

 

[srf2112]

Hey Katz, you gave it a try and that's what counts. My experience is limited but I've already seen that a promising site can be a bust and you can find some great treasures where they shouldn't be.The vets may be able to give you the advice you're seeking but I can only tell you good job.
HH
Scott

 

[ohio fred]

Nice finds more than what i found today

 

[dave5710]

Day 1, a few wheats.
Day 2, a silver quarter

To me that sounds like an improvement. All that trash may be masking the good finds. Can you slide your coil under that front porch at all? Look for a couple of depressions around 10 yards apart where clothes line posts may have once been.
Maybe the folks who lived there were poor and were very careful with their money, maybe the house was occupied for years by a single adult, perhaps it sat empty many years. Could the house have been moved there from another area of the property?
don't get discouraged, do your best. You will know when it is time to move on to a different site.

Good luck. Take care, Dave

I miss your kitty pictures. Cats are fun. They try to act serious all the time, but we know better.

 

[fotisr]

keep going.good job.

 

[nw1886]

I did a farm that had never been hunted before (100 percent certainty). The owner is a longtime family friend whose first words were "You aren't going to find a thing. The previous owners built this place. I new them well....and those old Germans would have never lost a penny." She was 100 percent right! That old 1924 farmhouse was a bust for coin shooting and hope to get back in to look for a cache...but similar results would be fairly predictable.

 

[Old Katz]

Hello NW1886:

>I did a farm that had never been hunted before (100 percent certainty). The owner is a longtime family friend whose first words were "You aren't going to find a thing. The previous owners built this place. I new them well....and those old Germans would have never lost a penny." She was 100 percent right! That old 1924 farmhouse was a bust for coin shooting and hope to get back in to look for a cache...but similar results would be fairly predictable.<

Thank you for that. I thought maybe I had forgotten how to MD. I even went around the old trees where people
might have recreated, but nothing there. I can cout myself greatful for that bit of silver.

Katz