Bad day at the fair

[Coinseeker 78]

I went back to the old fairgrounds today and hunted an area that has some deep coin signals but could not recover them. The ground has a good bed of grass but when digging the plug I found it was a lot of gravel just below the grass line. The signals were giving me a coin reading from 6 to as much as 10 inches. I can't believe the gravel was there when the coins were dropped. because I don't think they would have sunk that deep in the gravel. I did find a lot of 3 inch deep clad but that is not what I was looking for. This fairground has produced a lot of silver for me with my old Explorer in the past but it was not full of gravel in the areas I had hunted with the Explorer except occasionally. What a bummer to know there is some good coins where I can't get to them. Maybe I will have to try a pick.

 

[mudpuppy]

Maybe they scraped some gravel over an older spot? That chert gravel mixed with clay pretty much becomes concrete in the summer, you may just have a chance getting through it in the spring.
Good Luck!
Mud

 

[osgood]

yeah I ve been there, that gravel, with pressure from a lot of different angles, can lock itself up like jigsaw puzzles pieces, the digger deflects off and its murder on the hands- we can only wonder then. Good hunts CO