I put in my spring garden this afternoon....

[jbow]

This is what I planted:

1: a new soda can crushed flat from top
2: new soda can crushed flat from side
3: same but dug/old
4: old soda can crushed from side and folded
5: round end of old soda can
6: screw bottle cap
7: Nu Grape bottle cap
8: Colt 45 bottle cap
9: pop off bottle cap
10: same
11: round pull tab w/tail
12: round pull tab w/no tail
13: Large iron gear 8" diameter ring...heavy and big 12-14" deep
14: 1 1/4 x 3/8 rusty iron bolt
15: 6" nail
16: old 6" rusty nail
17: 5" bent rusty nail
18: 4" rusty square nail
19: same
20: 4" very rusty square nail
21: 6" rusty barbed wire
22: 2" very rusty barbed wire
23: Toy car... Hot Wheels type
24: Toy car frame (same)
25: low brass shotgun shell
26: high brass shotgun shell
27: .357 brass
28: old .22 brass
29: 3/8 brass plumbing elbow
30: rusty roofing tack
31: 4" bent rusty nail
32: 4" rusty nail
33: same
34: 1 1/2" rusty nail and clad dime together
35: very rusty 2 1/2" nail and clad quarter together
36: 6" rusty nail; zinc penny; clad quarter; 1" rusty nail piece together in 8" wide hole
37: old zinc penny, shallow
38: old zinc penny @ 3"
39: old zinc penny @ 6"
40: old zinc penny @ 8"
41: new zinc penny shallow
42: new zinc penny @ 3"
43: new zinc penny @ 6"
44: new zinc penny @ 8"
45: five zinc pennies one hole
46: nickel shallow
47: nickel @ 3"
48: nickel @ 6"
49: nickel @ 8"
50: nickel and penny together
51: nickel @ 3" (need to check).. don't seem right...
52: nickel @ 6" (need to check)
53: nickel @ 8" (need to check)
54: clad dime shallow
55: clad dime @ 6"
56: clad dime @ 12"
57: clad quarter shallow
58: clad quarter @ 6"
59: clad quarter @ 12"
60: beaver tail
61: folded piece of foil pie plate
62: Vienna sausage type can top w/tab
63: Meat type aluminum can mashed flat from side
64: round pulltab /no tail
65: new square pulltab

Whew... we may not eat well from it but I bet I will get better at IDing!

More to come...

I would appreciate any suggestions of items I should add to the garden. I am going to add some minnies and silver but what else?

Julien

 

[mr miner/logger]

If I only knew where you live. I would come by some night and dig up half of your buried items only to confuse you when you couldn't locate them.

 

[clondike clad]

Ok if someone would remove items,I would add items to see how good you are.

 

[jbow]

I am going to leave it there when I move so eventually it is going to confuse someone. Maybe in a hundred years another detectorist will stumble upon it and recognize it for what it is... or maybe in 500 yrs an archeologist will find it and make it some sort of historical site...hmmmm. Wouldn't that be a laff!

J

 

[zamora]

how big an area did you use how far apart?