Its been a heck of a day and that's the nice way to put it. Still, the sun was out and it was warm and my detecting buddy and I
got a lot of exercise, BUT ........we didn't find much.
My detecting partner trains coon dogs and goes coon hunting. He cued me in last year to an old house way off the road hidden
by trees and bush. We drove out today, parked the car on the side road and walked in. I took my MXT with some extra coils and batteries and I let
him use my Ace 250 until he gets his own detector. We walked in about a quarter mile through the biggest bunch of thorn bushes I have ever seen.
They looked like rose bush thorns but were not. Because he'd worked this area with his coon dogs he new to wear chaps. I was stuck with my
blue jeans. Fortunately I had some thick boots; we had to cross some nast mud from the creek beds. I also had a small pair of pruning shears I
carry to cut through roots so I had to cut my way through.
We came to the old house probably built in the 1920' or 30's. It had been torn apart by scrappers for the metal inside. (see photo) It had a root
cellar that we detected but found nothing but lids from glass jars. Nothing else in the ground but junk. We did a good look around the house but didn't find much
by way of old coins. I found several old horse shoes about five inches down and lots of moderen day junk on the surface. Also several spent 22 shell caseings.
I'm always amazed at how far civilizations junk can penetrate into the countryside.
He said there was another old house and barn further into the bush but we saved time by walking the distance in the ajacent field, following a barbed wire fence line to
the location. We found the barn in rough shape and lots of abandoned metal things inside. We opted to bypass the barn and and
it's small out building near by and walk another 100 yards to a second old house he told me about. It was totally wrecked and sitting there in a pile of old rotting lumber .
There was a milk house still standing, and an out house we may go back to at another date and start a dig there after reading up on the best way to go about it.
Any comments about how to go about this project would be appreciated.
He found some old bottles he said he could probably sell on ebay.
I found more horse shoes and odds and ends but no coinage.
It was a hard day and I learned another lesson about being better prepared.
Fortunately he knows many of the people in his community from his church who have old homes and land with old structures
he said he would ask about metal detecting there. His brother has one such place close by.
This is my hunting partners first attempt at detecting and he's hooked.
Katz
Pictures:
1. frist old house.
2. Me, old katz standing in from of old milk house at second target site.
3. Hunting buddy
4. second old house in complete ruins.
5.Out house with odd comode.
got a lot of exercise, BUT ........we didn't find much.
My detecting partner trains coon dogs and goes coon hunting. He cued me in last year to an old house way off the road hidden
by trees and bush. We drove out today, parked the car on the side road and walked in. I took my MXT with some extra coils and batteries and I let
him use my Ace 250 until he gets his own detector. We walked in about a quarter mile through the biggest bunch of thorn bushes I have ever seen.
They looked like rose bush thorns but were not. Because he'd worked this area with his coon dogs he new to wear chaps. I was stuck with my
blue jeans. Fortunately I had some thick boots; we had to cross some nast mud from the creek beds. I also had a small pair of pruning shears I
carry to cut through roots so I had to cut my way through.
We came to the old house probably built in the 1920' or 30's. It had been torn apart by scrappers for the metal inside. (see photo) It had a root
cellar that we detected but found nothing but lids from glass jars. Nothing else in the ground but junk. We did a good look around the house but didn't find much
by way of old coins. I found several old horse shoes about five inches down and lots of moderen day junk on the surface. Also several spent 22 shell caseings.
I'm always amazed at how far civilizations junk can penetrate into the countryside.
He said there was another old house and barn further into the bush but we saved time by walking the distance in the ajacent field, following a barbed wire fence line to
the location. We found the barn in rough shape and lots of abandoned metal things inside. We opted to bypass the barn and and
it's small out building near by and walk another 100 yards to a second old house he told me about. It was totally wrecked and sitting there in a pile of old rotting lumber .
There was a milk house still standing, and an out house we may go back to at another date and start a dig there after reading up on the best way to go about it.
Any comments about how to go about this project would be appreciated.
He found some old bottles he said he could probably sell on ebay.
I found more horse shoes and odds and ends but no coinage.
It was a hard day and I learned another lesson about being better prepared.
Fortunately he knows many of the people in his community from his church who have old homes and land with old structures
he said he would ask about metal detecting there. His brother has one such place close by.
This is my hunting partners first attempt at detecting and he's hooked.
Katz
Pictures:
1. frist old house.
2. Me, old katz standing in from of old milk house at second target site.
3. Hunting buddy
4. second old house in complete ruins.
5.Out house with odd comode.
Sounds promising.
Happy Hunting!