A question for the experts; I am concentrating on an colonial area which has the following characteristics, and for which I would greatly appreciate some advice regarding settings:
The location is a half mile from the ocean (6 feet above sea level) with a high concentration of bog iron; There are many many square nails at all levels (which tend to null out the detector's threshold over significant areas; Test pits I've dug and years of detecting the site have shown that most targets will be at a depth of seven to eight inches or more (coins, small buttons, pewter fragments, etc.) ; On the plus side, significant moisture in the area does create a somewhat larger "halo" effect on copper alloy stuff.
My questions are the following: Besides digging every larger spike nail (which I already do), what settings would you recommend for such a difficult area (discrimination, speed, depth, etc.)? Assuming that under these conditions no signal will be a clear one no matter what settings I use, is there a range of Fe and Cond. numbers I should be looking for which may show through enough to increase my advantage when a coin, button, etc., is buried under a square nail? Besides recommending individual settings themselves, what basic mode would you suggest under these conditions to start of with? Thank you!
The location is a half mile from the ocean (6 feet above sea level) with a high concentration of bog iron; There are many many square nails at all levels (which tend to null out the detector's threshold over significant areas; Test pits I've dug and years of detecting the site have shown that most targets will be at a depth of seven to eight inches or more (coins, small buttons, pewter fragments, etc.) ; On the plus side, significant moisture in the area does create a somewhat larger "halo" effect on copper alloy stuff.
My questions are the following: Besides digging every larger spike nail (which I already do), what settings would you recommend for such a difficult area (discrimination, speed, depth, etc.)? Assuming that under these conditions no signal will be a clear one no matter what settings I use, is there a range of Fe and Cond. numbers I should be looking for which may show through enough to increase my advantage when a coin, button, etc., is buried under a square nail? Besides recommending individual settings themselves, what basic mode would you suggest under these conditions to start of with? Thank you!