Farm field help

[diggingfix]

Use to be ball diamond late 1800's early 1900's...now soybean farmground.Permission has been granted after harvest.Any advice from the experienced would be helpful??? Pretty exciting for me, hopefully wont get skunked.

 

[James N.D.]

Just run your detector at the highest level of sensitivity due to Iron in the ground and Electrical Interference. Go slow and listen for those deep signals and dig everything that gives you a somewhat repeatable sound. You have to remember the ground has been disturbed and the halo around the coins is now gone so listen closely. If there is a lot of Iron, you may want to run Fast On and possibly Iron Mask -14 or so and Ferrous Tones. But if it is super clean with threshold in background, then run Deep. You may want to run in Manual also so it gets better depth also. You may want to bump up your Gain also to 9 or 10 depending on Iron targets. The key here is to just go somewhat slow and dig all targets since the old coins will also be at the surface now since it has been turned over a bit. If you have a bigger loop and you are in clean areas, you may want to give one a try for added depth. I use my stock coil when I do Farm Fields and I have done very well with it. I wish you Good Luck and HH and look forward to your finds from this site of yours.

 

[diggingfix]

I was somewhat in your neck of the woods last month, a little south, actually around Bruce, SD. Man it sure looked like alot of excellant spots to detect, I saw historical markers all over, old drive in theaters, brick roads goin nowhere anymore, just had goodies written all over the place.Thanks