Overgrown location advice

[TheDetectorDude]

Hello everyone. I've been to a yard that had an old house on it that's just been demolished to build a dollar store like establishment (progress). The yard hasn't been mowed in a while and it's really overgrown. I've tried a couple different programs but all I'm able to find are large targets. I've found 7 old mason jar lids with the porcelain lid inserts so far but no coins. Does anyone have any experience with a location like this? I spoke to the contractor and he is ok with us coming back so I may just try to detect around the dirt piles as the ground is scraped away. I've tried the Basic 1, Deus Fast and one of the programs from the auxiliary book. The grass is probably 10-15" high. It isn't really thick but the 11" coil is kind of hard to swing around in it. Thanks for looking and good luck to you.

 

[HuntinDog]

Get yourself a 2 foot by 4 foot piece of 1/4" plywood or even some thick cardboard and throw that down on the grass pushing it in one direction and detect through the board.
It will hold the grass down close to the ground and you will be able to swing and get good depth.
When you hit a target pull the board to the side and the grass will stay down and you can pinpoint and dig the target.
This process also has the benefit of showing where you detected.

Good luck
with those mason lids in there you have a good chance to find some goodies.

 

[chuck ky]

don't forget to hunt the scraped areas if possible.

 

[TheDetectorDude]

Tha k y'all for the advice. Haven't had much luck but did manage to find a 1924 Buffalo nickel and a 1919 penny. Still going to the site and hope to find more. Found several more mason jar lids and a lot of little metal things that look like small medicine bottle lids. My son is whooping me with the AT Pro. He found a 1911 v nickel and a really nice green bottle that dates to1933. Hope to post more this weekend. I did get a real good signal that ended up being an aluminum lid about 18" in the ground. Yikes! I may switch to the relic program to see if it helps with deep targets. The best description I can use to describe the tones that the mason jar lids make is savory. They sound exactly like a coin does but I think the depth is affecting that some.

 

[TheDetectorDude]

Here are a few things found this week at that old home site. both wheat pennies are 1919 and one is slightly bent. I think the disc is part of an old pocket watch. I found something that looks like a gear a week ago. One thing that was odd is that one of the wheat pennies gave a good loud coin signal before I dug it. After digging it out the signal completely disappeared. It was getting post dusk so I could barely see but was able to find it with the pinpointer still in the plug. I think there is a lot of aluminum trash iron everywhere at that place that is interfering with the detectors. I have found several more mason jar lids and those rascals ring up in the mid 90s. Hope to keep going as much as possible and may take a shovel and just excavate sections since there seems to be plenty left.