The grass is too high to hunt in fields, so I went in the woods behind a field that has given up 3 reales, 3-4 LC and lots of buttons. I noticed barbed wire in the woods a few years back and I suspected the field was bigger. I started finding pewter buttons, always a good sign as these date to the 1700's. I saw a spot where a recent farmer had pushed a stone and a pile of dirt into the woods, tried that spot and popped out a nice pewter button with a floral design. Two feet away I got another signal, the target was deeper and harder to spot. I finally flicked a silver disc out of the hole and was looking at a 1755 half reale. I found it hard to believe considering the surroundings, but my hunch paid off...finally. For years I have detected this fringe area around fields figuring that these fields originally went right to a stone wall and now because of modern hay equipment, they can't get that close.
Sometimes we have to look beyond the obvious and go where someone probably hasn't gone before, it just might pay off. Ron
Fisher F-75
Sometimes we have to look beyond the obvious and go where someone probably hasn't gone before, it just might pay off. Ron
Fisher F-75
