Welp
Back to the 1830's Homestead Monday evening.
So far
I've tried the MXT
Sniper 5" round coil and the 5×10 Eclipse
ATPro with the 4×6 coil
Sovereign GT
with the Nel Sniper and Coiltek 5×10 treasure seeker. Like the Joey coil.
I'm going to work with it some more here
Tesoro Tejon
Nel Sniper , 5.75 concentric and factory 6×9 DD coil
Again I'm going to work with it more
All of these walked over these two finds.
The Simplex with the SP 24 coil
And running the 2.77 program
Knowing it loves iron
Thought I'd give it a try
At lest I'll know what's iron.
Running the Beach mode
Thought I'd try under the power lines again.
Where I found the large cent
Very chatty had to drop the sensitivity one notch
Still noisy
But IDing iron was spot on at solid 04 vid
Going back into the wet soupy crap
Iron going off everywhere
I get this mellow quiet signal
Bouncing from 30 to occasionally 66 solid
Circling still the same from every direction
Start digging with my homemade scratcher
Down about six inches
That's it I'm going back and getting the shovel
Ground seems virgin here
Like the dozer just took the grass off
Around 10-12 inch's
Out rolls what I believe is a silver dollar
Still covered in that sticky wet clay
Pushing gently the clay gives way to this copperish round disc. What ?
Turning it over out pops what looks like a loop
Holy crap Batman I've got a buckle
Again never dug one like this.
Big as the palm of my hand and round
Oh man
I must have looked like some wild man
Shaking my head and dancing around.
Whoo hoooo this is so Cool.
Left my machine and gear in the field
Went back to my vehicle
I needed a little breather
Left it sitting in the car and back at it
This time my hopes are waning
Just heavily crusted nails
And old tin telephone splices
Darn things ID and sound just like that cent
Still weak and tired from work
Oh well
I'm smiling
Got a Buckle
Turned off my machine start heading back
Then that goofy voice went off in my head
All deterorist hear it.
Hey dummy
Turn your machine back on
"You know the best finds happen heading back"
So I fired her back up
Not 12 ft from my car
I'm hitting another weird bouncy signal
Clawing through the rubble and trash
Scraped it off 4 inches, clean soil again
Six inches down
Carrot on 2 setting slow quiet beep
Simplex says it's still deeper
OK shovel time again
Dig out another Big hole
It's gone, carrots not seeing anything
Spread out and the dirt
Simplex says it's out solid 30 ish
Going thru the pile with the carrot
Out rolls this round muddy clay ball
Pick it up
Heavy little burger
Wipe it a little and see the classic split
A Bell. Oh man this site keeps giving
Re scan the mess
It's got Friends
Out roll two more
A string of bells ,, oh my
Couldn't wait to get home
The buckle just a gentle brushing warm water
All the green patina vanished,, bronze
Under running stream of water I can see
Clockwise and counter clockwise swirls
Dry,, nothing
Debating on stripping the calcium crust off
The bells cleanup nicely
Again just warm water and a gentle brush
Looking closely ,, leather still attached
Bronze belt buckle, friend says he See's CSA.
I'm not seeing it.
And what I believe are goats bells.
Darn didn't find Rudolph's harness
What do you see ?
