my 1940 site

[John 'n' W.Va]

The house was leveled and this is the third time I searched this site. I know the site isn't real old, but I was hoping to get a little silver. It seems like I have to clear the site of copper before I can start finding silver. All the copper fittings and pipe I find, I keep. I put them in a 5 gal. bucket in the garage. I have sold over $700 worth of copper this year. The soil is easy digging. It is all loose sand filled with shredded house. The back of the lot is more house then sand. I have never found a coin there. First time there my first 4 hit was 3 wheats and a Buffalo nickel. Then it took me an hour for my next wheat. The pp mode is useless. I do a lot of coil shaking to pp. I know I really need a smaller coil. I think I found a gold plated money clip minus the coin. I found two aluminin coin before. I think F, M on the coin stand for funny money. The little one says chicken feed. Ear ring to the right and 2 wheats. One I have been cleaning on for many hours. It looks like it has sand glued on to it. Closer look it seems to be a 1950's something. I'll let it soak over night.

 

[awhitster]

I like going around old houses. Takes me back to my bottle digging days. You find some cool "junk" and hopefully the elusive old coin.

 

[John-Edmonton]

I have found a few of those. That house sure has some interesting possibilities John. Keep those posts coming..... It's great entertainment at my end while I get covered in snow!

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

I never got into bottles. I know many places to get bottles in WV. I showed a cousin of mine one place to get bottles. We were in the forest and he said where is it? I raked back the leaves and said there it is. My family lived on a mountain from back in the early 1800's. I know where the old home steads are. There aren't any houses there. I know where the dumps are. My grandfather would tell me stories about the old days. There are a lot of good stories. I thought about writing a book. The mountain is all forest. I see in my mind the roads, out houses, spring house, the old tree they used to change the engines on and I know the history. My mother was born in a log cabin there. There are 3 old dumps. I pulled back the leaves and showed him the newest dump. It was a well where my grandfather never hit water. So he made it a dump. He doesn't know about the other dumps. He dug bottles till he couldn't carry any more. There are many R.C bottles with the pyramids on them.

 

[DavHut]

...John there are some old houses sites here in a park that have yielded almost exactly the same things to me! The cookie cutter is from a kiddie toy set and the aluminum coins are just what they seem - play money (nowadays they make them from plastic).

There will be a bit of silver eventually, but as you noted the debris is the bug right now. However, $700 is no too painful of a bug bite! Sure beats being bittne by panthers and bears and scorpions and all the other critters which abound in FL.

FUN