Sifting at an Old Incinerate Dump

[cjc]

This shoreline is like a time capsule. The water contains the tailings of an incinerator that operated from the 1920s to the 1960s. Back then, valuable industrial copper, brass and lead just went in the garbage. Gold and silver coins have come from this site along with some great bottle and curio finds. It also teaches me a lot about how objects are classified and dispersed along a shoreline by weight and density. When you put the shovel in at the right spot--something interesting is usually in it. Many shovelfulls contain four or five coins some Victorian and Edwardian. (The shiney Merc is a detector find). Note the two fine watches. The last picture represents several hunts. The silver medal is a City Parks atheletic award.
cjc
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[Dancer]

Cjc ,What a great, interesting site. I'd keep it a secret on the where abouts. Closest place I found like that was. A hill side where debris from a car wash vacuum's was dumped. For several years.

 

[dewcon4414]

Clive....... i used to do a lot of field hunting. I used an old atlas...... it showed homesites and buildings long forgotten about in the middle of corn or bean fields. Those places really produced some interesting finds because they didnt have a lot of the modern trash or the dirt from additions that a lot of the old homes still standing had. Those sites produced a lot of WHAT ITS...... and old coins, especially in drive ways and around shade trees. Research........... can really be rewarding. Great finds....... just never know whats going to pop up.

 

[cjc]

Hahah--I check those every car wash! Who me? Cheap? Jimmy Pugh (Anchor Electronics) once said to me that "a real treasure hunter hunts with his whole body!".
Great advice.
cjc

 

[Sven]

We had a site just like that on Lake Erie. Every time there was a big storms, the waves would pound the shoreline and wash out the goodies into a flat bedrock with crevices area.
Like a sluice all the heavy stuff would fall there, sand was dragged out into the lake. The site was part of a large ash dump from the early 1900's to 1920's in that area. One section was actually a beach.
The picture shows the area when there is a high water level, otherwise that pool looking area was just about dry.

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All ended when the city filled in the shoreline with rocks preventing bank erosion. And in the past 7 years the look of the area has totally changed

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