BarnacleBill
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Last Sunday got out for about 4 hours to a beach that had a sliver of upper beach not covered in snow and an adjoining sliver of land. Being familiar with the lay of the land I knew this was a high iron trash landscape. So the uniform of the day was the X70 with 6 inch HF DD.
About half way through the hunt the X70 sounded and out of the sand came a marble. I thought "that's odd", and picking it up it didn't seem very heavy. But I put it in my pouch and carried on as marbles aren't very interesting. It's pictured on the left below. When I arrived home I discovered it's plastic, hollow, and shaking caused a rattling sound. Turns out there is a magnet inside of it......I'm still scratching my head.
Also pictured below is a drawer pull ornament and a couple of interesting targets. The Case pocket knife at the top was found at 12+ inches, I'm guessing 15 inches because I was using a full sized spade shovel. This was an interesting mixed tone target with the higher tone being very smooth, despite having an iron low tone companion. Likewise the bent square nail was interesting as I ran into a big patch of them with the one pictured laying on top of the sand. Swinging the coil in this area produced a machine fire sound of low grunts but the little HF DD never once falsed high or medium tone on this nail patch.
[attachment 85754 KNIFE.jpg]
A couple of damaged buckles were found with the bottom one being WW1 vintage, as can be seen in the link.
http://www.antiqueweaponstore.com/id152.htm
[attachment 85753 BUCKLE.jpg]
Lots of lead seals which are common at this location were found as seen below, along with small bits of copper. There was also a wannabe ring(costume).
[attachment 85755 LEAD.jpg]
One of the nicer finds was in a 10x10ft area I have just hammered over the years with all sorts of detectors, and yet it still continues to produce if you go slow and grid it from three angles. This jar was only about three inches below the surface and was isolated by just a slight wiggling of the coil. Any more coil movement and it reported iron. This could be the poster child for how much masking iron is causing. Turns out the corrosion ate any markings on the lid, and the glass itself has none. This is one find I am still having the mumbles about, how could a target with such a large non-ferrous signature have been missed?
[attachment 85752 BOTTLE.jpg]
Coins of interest found Wheaties, 1909(no SVDB
),1917, and a badly corroded. A 1927 Buff and 1947 Jeff. Along with a silver pendant with an Aztec/Mayan pyramid design.
[attachment 85756 COINZY.jpg]
Bringing up the rear, the junk that get's dug, no free lunch!
[attachment 85758 IRON.jpg]
HH
BarnacleBill
About half way through the hunt the X70 sounded and out of the sand came a marble. I thought "that's odd", and picking it up it didn't seem very heavy. But I put it in my pouch and carried on as marbles aren't very interesting. It's pictured on the left below. When I arrived home I discovered it's plastic, hollow, and shaking caused a rattling sound. Turns out there is a magnet inside of it......I'm still scratching my head.
Also pictured below is a drawer pull ornament and a couple of interesting targets. The Case pocket knife at the top was found at 12+ inches, I'm guessing 15 inches because I was using a full sized spade shovel. This was an interesting mixed tone target with the higher tone being very smooth, despite having an iron low tone companion. Likewise the bent square nail was interesting as I ran into a big patch of them with the one pictured laying on top of the sand. Swinging the coil in this area produced a machine fire sound of low grunts but the little HF DD never once falsed high or medium tone on this nail patch.
[attachment 85754 KNIFE.jpg]
A couple of damaged buckles were found with the bottom one being WW1 vintage, as can be seen in the link.
http://www.antiqueweaponstore.com/id152.htm
[attachment 85753 BUCKLE.jpg]
Lots of lead seals which are common at this location were found as seen below, along with small bits of copper. There was also a wannabe ring(costume).
[attachment 85755 LEAD.jpg]
One of the nicer finds was in a 10x10ft area I have just hammered over the years with all sorts of detectors, and yet it still continues to produce if you go slow and grid it from three angles. This jar was only about three inches below the surface and was isolated by just a slight wiggling of the coil. Any more coil movement and it reported iron. This could be the poster child for how much masking iron is causing. Turns out the corrosion ate any markings on the lid, and the glass itself has none. This is one find I am still having the mumbles about, how could a target with such a large non-ferrous signature have been missed?
[attachment 85752 BOTTLE.jpg]
Coins of interest found Wheaties, 1909(no SVDB
),1917, and a badly corroded. A 1927 Buff and 1947 Jeff. Along with a silver pendant with an Aztec/Mayan pyramid design.[attachment 85756 COINZY.jpg]
Bringing up the rear, the junk that get's dug, no free lunch!
[attachment 85758 IRON.jpg]
HH
BarnacleBill
