A teaching day!.......

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

Got a call the other day from a club member who bought a new Explorer a couple months back. He asked if I could tutor him on how to use it, but also how to read a yard, good digging techniques, and the whole kit and kaboodle! I said sure. He had two sites lined up and we got together this afternoon for a few hours. We spent much of our time driving the roads as he pointed out this place and that. then we started at the first site.
Here is site #1. It is an 1800's log cabin home. We were only there a short time. Not one coin was dug and the site had trash everywhere, the grass was all grown up, and brush laying all over. looked better than it was.
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A little while later we were at site #2. I didn't get a pic, but it was a huge 1800's home with a very big yard. Here are my finds from there.
1919 wheat, 1907 and 1898 Indian heads, an old MI State Farm Bureau pin. A harmonica reed and what appears to be a crime scene!
Note the arm and leg!
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Coins and pin. The 1898 was only an inch deep in the roots of the grass.
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Here was a surprise. a 16 1/2" pair of channel locks. This one was also just under the grass partly exposed. They still work.
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Great day, almost T-shirt weather! My student thanked me a million times and said he learned alot. We are plannng lesson two soon.

 

[Lee49]

I know that was a fun time, way to go!

 

[Goes4ever]

good finds, so I heard you charge an arm and a leg for lessons!...lol

 

[ronaldj2]

nice finds! The clarity of the photos is excellent, what kinda camera did you use?

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

n/t

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

n/t

 

[DK]

You are a great teacher Mike. I read the posts of all and I learn alot from all. Listening to someone who has the experience, and being willing to learn is the key. I take what you all say and try it and some things work for me and others don't, but I will get there one day. Looking forward to the hunt.

 

[Anonymous]

Oh, oh, ya diggin' in a cemetery, me son? Just had to say that....how many bodies do ye expect to find? Hope not any human ones that is! Nice old coins for sure! My grandmother's log cabin looked similar to the one in the pic, but it was smaller with only two rooms! And when my ex, me and the kids went to see it one time, way before we divorced, it too was all grown up and looking like forest land...part of the cabin was still there, though! Probably all gone by now, as it had been bought by the Corp of Engineers, which had been open to the public for fishing, hunting and swimming for no one knows how long! Gov't confiscating everything! God Bless! Betty

 

[Pete in MI]

amazing there is anything standing and in such good shape from the 1800s. As far as I know anything up here from the late 1800s is long gone...just occasional foundations or dips in the ground where buildings used to be.

 

[7centsworth]

Nice finds.

 

[RickIowa2009]

Nice finds!