today's hunt

[bibelot]

Still crawling around the old farm house yard. The square nails are still overwhelming a bit but I was able to go super slow and isolate some targets. I crawled around with the shrew coil and the oor coil, pulled a 1919 wheat with the shrew. I switched to the anfibio with the big stock 11" coil, pulled a Barber dime, maybe a horse bridle piece and a button and rivet, shotties and a rim fire cartridges bigger than a 22, maybe a 32 rimfire ?I don't believe you could detect a coin deep here, the soil composition is all over the GB numeral range but I doubt I can find a clean spot to get a good GB.

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[bigtim1973]

What you have is a civil war heart horse bridle rosette and that my friend is an awesome find in my opinion. Go back and see if you could find the other one for a matching pair. Awesome stuff Ivan!!!

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Nice finds!

A few years ago an 1860's park in San Francisco had a major renovation. It was originally a stopping point for the Spanish between the mission and the presideo due to a natural spring there and being a half way point (Spanish reales have been found there in the past), and it was also used as a 1906 earthquake refugee encampment, so it has plenty of history. At that time I was using the Racer 2 which was the latest and greatest from them. I learned that if I went slow, real slow, that I was digging coins, tokens, buttons and other relics the other hunters were walking right over with their top of the line detectors because they were going too fast. By going slow it allowed the Racer to really get in the iron (lots of iron and junk there) and analyze the targets to report back conductors that others were missing by going too fast. It was a real "ah ha" moment after a buddy of mine raced through a little patch that had been freshly scraped, and he did dug a gold ring out of that patch, but that was all. Everyone figured since he already went through it, that it was done and raced of to greener pastures. I went through it at a snails pace and pulled out several early wheatbacks, Indian heads, mercs and barbers that his Explorer 2 just didn't hear because he was going so fast. Sometimes it's not too bad to be on the clean up crew

 

[bibelot]

What you have is a civil war heart horse bridle rosette and that my friend is an awesome find in my opinion. Go back and see if you could find the other one for a matching pair. Awesome stuff Ivan!!!

Thank you for the response, I had no idea that it might be that old. Thank you for knowing the history of it. And to think I was happy to have dug a Barber. Yes, I will keep looking .I was going to give it a good look through and then start on the 1700 home tomorrow but I won't move on just yet.

 

[bibelot]

Nice finds!

A few years ago an 1860's park in San Francisco had a major renovation. It was originally a stopping point for the Spanish between the mission and the presideo due to a natural spring there and being a half way point (Spanish reales have been found there in the past), and it was also used as a 1906 earthquake refugee encampment, so it has plenty of history. At that time I was using the Racer 2 which was the latest and greatest from them. I learned that if I went slow, real slow, that I was digging coins, tokens, buttons and other relics the other hunters were walking right over with their top of the line detectors because they were going too fast. By going slow it allowed the Racer to really get in the iron (lots of iron and junk there) and analyze the targets to report back conductors that others were missing by going too fast. It was a real "ah ha" moment after a buddy of mine raced through a little patch that had been freshly scraped, and he did dug a gold ring out of that patch, but that was all. Everyone figured since he already went through it, that it was done and raced of to greener pastures. I went through it at a snails pace and pulled out several early wheatbacks, Indian heads, mercs and barbers that his Explorer 2 just didn't hear because he was going so fast. Sometimes it's not too bad to be on the clean up crew

Thank you for the response. I don't think I've ever hunted this slow but it makes you slow down to investigate all of the square nails squeaking high feedback.

 

[bigtim1973]

Your welcome!!

What you have is a civil war heart horse bridle rosette and that my friend is an awesome find in my opinion. Go back and see if you could find the other one for a matching pair. Awesome stuff Ivan!!!

Thank you for the response, I had no idea that it might be that old. Thank you for knowing the history of it. And to think I was happy to have dug a Barber. Yes, I will keep looking .I was going to give it a good look through and then start on the 1700 home tomorrow but I won't move on just yet.