Bill, I figured if you can play with nails,I can do the same with Aluminum cans..This is an old dressing area for a baseball diamond North of where I live. Field is now abandoned...was thinking of hunting it..However, the dressing area may more productive in the long run.The ground must have six inches of cans ground into the soil..Was thinking of an 8 by 8 foot square, and just pulling out cans..Once the ground was clear, detecting..Last time there, I had a Fisher 1266xb, and it would sit and howl at the ground from 2 to 3 feet away...I know the baseball field dates to 1930 or 31, so the players had to be dropping stuff since then..A friend said, "Too much like work".. He may be right,but a couple of Standing Liberty quarters in VF/XF ???? Am I a dreamer,of course..Aren't we all? Cordially NAD
Well I have been showing all the rusted nails, wire and etc. that I have been digging in my back yard. My house is about 35 years old, but there must have been something here before. Now I am looking a little deeper and still digging a lot of junk, but today I found a couple of more interesting items. The little brown bottle (3 inches long) has an Anchor Hocking hallmark and a 7-3-41 date on the bottom. I found it by the rusty tin plated screw cap which fell apart. The residue inside looked like Potassium Permanganate. It was about 5 inches deep. The oval pin is a thin brass football with a flag in the middle with Albert Richards on it and All American club around the bottom. It is about 1/64 inches thick 15/16 long and 5/8 wide (emblem and letters embossed and rolled on the edge). It was about 6 inches deep. I looked it up on the Internet and found that it is from about 1930. They can still be bought in antique stores, but I think that a lot of them are reproductions. I used my Compadre today. Bill in Texas 