Greetings everyone. My name is Rod and I live in Kansas. Been MDing now for about 3 months and have gotten pretty familiar with my GTI 2500
. I recently discovered and old campsite along the Santa Fe trail. It just happens to be located in a city park and the area seems to have the potential for being quite the "lode" as far as relic hunting goes. As far as I know the area has virtually never been detected. I have read that this campground saw more than 90,000 travelers just during the gold rush of 1849.
It served from 1822 to 1872.
There also is a creek running through the main part of the old camp and 3 days ago before all the rain came, the creek bottom was completely exposed from one end to the other. It was at this time I went to the park Supt and asked for permission to swing my detector and he said that was fine. Well, the next day it started to rain, and rain all weekend it did. I took a trip to check out the water level in the creek this morning and it was waist high in places. So much for timing
What would be the best way to approach this site ? I did a test swing in a grassy area of the park with my 12 inch Imaging coil and got alot of hits in the iron range at depths 12 inches and greater, and sizes in the E range, which are bigger than a soda can. How do you go about digging up something that big and deep without making it look like a war zone? Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.
. I recently discovered and old campsite along the Santa Fe trail. It just happens to be located in a city park and the area seems to have the potential for being quite the "lode" as far as relic hunting goes. As far as I know the area has virtually never been detected. I have read that this campground saw more than 90,000 travelers just during the gold rush of 1849. It served from 1822 to 1872. There also is a creek running through the main part of the old camp and 3 days ago before all the rain came, the creek bottom was completely exposed from one end to the other. It was at this time I went to the park Supt and asked for permission to swing my detector and he said that was fine. Well, the next day it started to rain, and rain all weekend it did. I took a trip to check out the water level in the creek this morning and it was waist high in places. So much for timing
What would be the best way to approach this site ? I did a test swing in a grassy area of the park with my 12 inch Imaging coil and got alot of hits in the iron range at depths 12 inches and greater, and sizes in the E range, which are bigger than a soda can. How do you go about digging up something that big and deep without making it look like a war zone? Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.