more finds US army hospital base 2nd WW

[stan_moto]

Hello All. I had a chance to go to my favourite spot the US army hospital site from the 2nd WW. As usual I found a variety of things. First up the coins photo, eleven coins all up. Four pennies, 1917-42-36-38. Six silver coins two shillings 1916 each two sixpences 1943 and can

 

[John (Australia)]

Hello Stan, Good finds, it is satisfying going back to a site and finding more. Have you tried running a sensitivity around 6? if not try it on an area you think you have done completely and you might get a pleasant surprise. I have found an object like the one to the left of the toothpaste tube top, is it the thing you describe as part of a light switch and if so what type of switch?
John

 

[stan_moto]

Hello John. Thanks for looking and the tip you have given me. The switch item is the second one to the left of the tooth past top. I think it is one of the early light switches that had a cord hanging down from the ceiling and you pulled it down to switch the light on and then pulled again to switch off. The reason I think this is it is because I have found a couple of these fittings in the past on this site that was screwed to a sort of bakelite material usually around three inches in diameter and part of little contacts and a small spring inside. Some had a short bit of small thin chain going up the centre of the fitting that is in the photo. This site is loaded with copper wire from single strand to mullty strand with all sorts of remains of different types of fittings. The place is loaded with copper cable fixing strips the ones that are about two and half inches long with a tack in the middle and after hammering into a bit of timber one end is placed over the cable and passed through the slot on the other end and folded back over the cable. The worst part of these clips is they give a good high signal. I normally do a sixty foot strip about four feet wide and squirt a little bit of paint on the trees about every four or five meters so I know where I have been and do the same on the way back. Where ever I find something good I usually mark the closest tree with a green arrow and most times there are a few targets in that general area so I slow down and do a good search. Most of the targets are on the hard pack that is about six inches down under the sandy loam soil on top as well most of the area has about three inches of leaf and sticks on top of the loam. The area has reverted back to lite to medium scrub and plenty of lantana and it slows you down if you want to do a thorough job. I will be re checking some of the good producing areas with the Quattro to see if it can find any more items in these spots that I may have missed with the sovereign XS and the white eleven inch coinsearch coil. I have only started using the Quattro on this site since I bought it earlier this year and found it worked as good if not better than the sovereign. The Quattro has got about one and half inches more depth than the sovereign using the same size coil plus you are able to set up the detector better to the conditions that you have to work with. With the sensitivity settings I have found that a number lower than ten is not necessary a bad target as I go by the tone that the negative numbers sound like. At this site a minus seven with a good tone turns out to be a 22cal shell and some of the buttons show up at lower than ten.All the best Stan from Australia.

 

[Angela (Australia)]

I agree with you there Stan. I've also found that numbers lower than ten, have often turned out to be great targets. For instance, a lot of my buttons found on the goldfields reggistered 7-10, more often than not, a 9. Some of the chinese coins of the same copper content, in some cases read 29, or -5. But the tone for -5 differed slightly, because the coin was more worn, or come from very moist ground. I've leaned that with old coins, the numerical reading are not always true each time, some gave negative number readings. Some of my badges also read in at -2, but others in better condition, if silver, read at the higher numbers of +37-+38. Some relices even fluctuated between 39 and 40. But by listening carefully to the tone of a signal, I can tell if it's going to be a keeper or not. So, I really don't rely on the number readings, they're mainly used as a guide in some cases.
Angela

 

[John (Australia)]

Hello Stan, I was referring to the brass nut like object, is that the cable joiner you mention. Also I am slightly confused with the bit in your second last sentence that appears to have got sensitivity and id numbers meaning the same thing.
John

 

[stan_moto]

Hello John. Sorry to get you confused as after reading your reply and re reading what I wrote I can see that it sounds confusing. First this being a virgin site there is no modern day rubbish like ring pulls screw tops etc only small Ferris items like nails screws wire small brackets and such and they discriminate out at no higher than -3 so i set it there on the scale and have the rest of the scale open. On this site I use the 15 inch wot coiltek coil for two reasons one I can cover some ground and I also over lap my searching swings so as not to miss any thing. I have found that because the coil has great depth and sensitivy on small targets over the 10 inch coil I can comfortably reduce my sensitive down to 8 to 11 with no falcing. I have this set up in the relic mode that I hunt in close to being nearly in all metal mode. I use all metal mode to check any target that gives me an un certain feeling so I can check the result of the signal. All the non Ferris signals show up on the screen in different numbers usually higher up depending what item it is. The larger Ferris items that I call relics usually show higher than -3 because of there size and the tone of the signal usually give an indication. The hard pack under the sandy loam I have found that if I use a higher sensitivy it seams to re bound and causes the detector to false and give iffy sounds and bouncing numbers. I don

 

[Ken (Australia)]

Hi Stan, great finds. I agree with Angela. I detect in all metal mode and mainly work off the tones. Quite often I have coins giving a minus ID usually -9 or -10, when I lift the coil off the target it then changes to somewhere in the 30's which is what I'm looking at for pre decimals. This usually happens with the older British copper coins and not the more modern Australian coppers. The silver is usually pretty true to form...........Ken.

 

[Ste (Australia)]

Ken

I picked these up yesterday all 36-37 all metals

Thanks Steve

 

[Angela (Australia)]

I really like the seated lady (Britannia coin). Have you tried a little WD40 on them? I find it cleans the coins just that little bit more! Brings out the detail.
Angela

 

[Ste (Australia)]

Thanks for the tip Angela I shall give it a go.

 

[stan_moto]

Hello Angela. I my self like finding those old English coins. I will try and use your tip about the wd40.Being a mechanic by trade it