Last night I threw a giant load of laundry in the triple-loader at the laundromat (washing machine at home blew up recently) and headed out to detect for a while. Drove by the old field/picnic area/now ballfield but it was full up with teams. I remembered that I hadn't yet hit where there used to be a large business next to a pond over 100 years ago with my SE yet, and it was close by, so I headed over there. This site is peppered with iron and modern garbage. And the ground is nasty stuff to dig in. Getting below 4-5 inches is work.
Fired up and, within seconds of the noise cancel finishing, two small spectators appeared in my lowered vision--rugrats! A boy about 7 and a girl about 6, shortly followed by the mother of one of them. The mother wandered off but it was hard to detect for a while with little feet and hands suddenly appearing in my holes, on my coil, etc and continually peppering me with questions. I detected off in the direction I figure a lot of workers would have walked onto the site from but wasn't getting much but modern clad and junk. Though I got one signal that measured about the size of a manhole cover and I'd guess was 2 feet down. I left it there.
Finally couldn't take it any more of the little hands, feet, and questions, so I picked up my detector and walked off in the opposite direction 50 yards or so and started detecting again. By now I'd also picked up a couple more followers, a cute-as-punch little Asian boy about 2 (had to be one of the cutest kids I've ever seen), his older sister, and their mom. They followed me over not long after but I didn't mind too much since they were very well behaved. Although by now I was starting to feel like the Pied Piper. Not long after dropping the coil at the new spot, I got an interesting tone that was bouncing around between 00-24 and 00-26 (I think) and I remember thinking, "That's an interesting signal. I wonder what that is." The depth meter was reading pretty shallow so I wasn't expecting much but I popped the plug and there, about 4" down and staring at me out of the hole, was this beauty.
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I gently lifted it out and didn't rub it at all. This baby was going to be cleaned with nothing but water and a toothbrush.
I think how nasty this site is is what left that lovely lady there for me to find. I suspect someone got their coil over her before and didn't know what was there. There was another piece of garbage off to one side of the hole as well as a big piece of iron somewhere underneath her. The only thing I've found of interest here before was a silver Rosie.
By now, a couple more adults had wondered over. I started detecting again and hit a probable dime signal. Bent down to dig and all of a sudden there were a ton of feet around me. I looked up to see about half a little league team, the grandparents of the nice kids, and some other adults. Gack! I recovered the dime and quickly detected off in the other direction. Thunder and lightening were starting in the distance and the people fairly quickly cleared out. With a wave, the cute little boy was the last to leave. I detected some more but wasn't finding much. I finished off digging a whattheheckisit from about 8" as the rain started to spatter in the dust and lightening and thunder seemed to be all around me. By the time I got to the car 50 feet away it was dark and starting to pour. Drove to pick up my laundry and head home with a good feeling. A wonderful storm crashing all around, Wish You Were Here and then a ZZ Top song on the oldies station, and my first silver half!
Note: I didn't do any of those gouges (on either side) but someone sure did before me. And it would be nice if it wasn't the highest-mintage Walker. But I really don't mind much. I'm very happy to have finally found one!
Fired up and, within seconds of the noise cancel finishing, two small spectators appeared in my lowered vision--rugrats! A boy about 7 and a girl about 6, shortly followed by the mother of one of them. The mother wandered off but it was hard to detect for a while with little feet and hands suddenly appearing in my holes, on my coil, etc and continually peppering me with questions. I detected off in the direction I figure a lot of workers would have walked onto the site from but wasn't getting much but modern clad and junk. Though I got one signal that measured about the size of a manhole cover and I'd guess was 2 feet down. I left it there.
Finally couldn't take it any more of the little hands, feet, and questions, so I picked up my detector and walked off in the opposite direction 50 yards or so and started detecting again. By now I'd also picked up a couple more followers, a cute-as-punch little Asian boy about 2 (had to be one of the cutest kids I've ever seen), his older sister, and their mom. They followed me over not long after but I didn't mind too much since they were very well behaved. Although by now I was starting to feel like the Pied Piper. Not long after dropping the coil at the new spot, I got an interesting tone that was bouncing around between 00-24 and 00-26 (I think) and I remember thinking, "That's an interesting signal. I wonder what that is." The depth meter was reading pretty shallow so I wasn't expecting much but I popped the plug and there, about 4" down and staring at me out of the hole, was this beauty.[attachment 95095 080616_ArlIcePlnt_43-Walker_obverse_8104.JPG]
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I gently lifted it out and didn't rub it at all. This baby was going to be cleaned with nothing but water and a toothbrush.
I think how nasty this site is is what left that lovely lady there for me to find. I suspect someone got their coil over her before and didn't know what was there. There was another piece of garbage off to one side of the hole as well as a big piece of iron somewhere underneath her. The only thing I've found of interest here before was a silver Rosie.
By now, a couple more adults had wondered over. I started detecting again and hit a probable dime signal. Bent down to dig and all of a sudden there were a ton of feet around me. I looked up to see about half a little league team, the grandparents of the nice kids, and some other adults. Gack! I recovered the dime and quickly detected off in the other direction. Thunder and lightening were starting in the distance and the people fairly quickly cleared out. With a wave, the cute little boy was the last to leave. I detected some more but wasn't finding much. I finished off digging a whattheheckisit from about 8" as the rain started to spatter in the dust and lightening and thunder seemed to be all around me. By the time I got to the car 50 feet away it was dark and starting to pour. Drove to pick up my laundry and head home with a good feeling. A wonderful storm crashing all around, Wish You Were Here and then a ZZ Top song on the oldies station, and my first silver half!
Note: I didn't do any of those gouges (on either side) but someone sure did before me. And it would be nice if it wasn't the highest-mintage Walker. But I really don't mind much. I'm very happy to have finally found one!
