Thought for sure I'd have Silver in my pocket.

[DukeOBass]

I printed out some old map of a nearby town and went out for a few hour to a plot of land that had a school on it rough between 1918 and the mid 60s.

ALL CLAD. NOT even ONE Wheat Penny.

$2.75 in Quarters
$1.90 in Dimes
$.05 in Nickels
and $.18 in Pennies

These were from surface to up to 8 inches deep. Talk about bummed. Everytime I heard a deep screaming 12-45/46 or 10/11 47-49 I knew I had silver. But Noooooooooo!!!!!

 

[Idaho PRB]

Sometimes you got to clean out the clad before you get the old stuff. be patient and go back again. Maybe try diagonally this time, assuming you have hit the entire lot. Look for the difference in what it looks like now and what it may have looked like back then. maybe a good area is in the brush or trees now. I don't know for sure but there's got to be something good there, right? Think about how some of these Guys pull old silver out of Parks that have been hit hard for years and years. Most of all, don't be bummed. We do this for fun, remember?

 

[DukeOBass]

It's a great lot. No bushes trees etc. All mowed. You can see where the building footprint was. Most of the clad was from the 70s with some newer stuff mixed in. I would think it's safe to say no one has hunted this since a good chunk of the clad dates back to the 70s

 

[banditicey]

This sounds like regrading issues.
Just a bummer.
We went out to old property today with high expectations and no results
We will go back after doing research and locating the sites long torn down that we know should yeild results
Good luck and happy hunting

 

[Gonehunting]

Or it could be that guy I hate called Fill. They might have used Fill back in the seventies or earlier. But keep going never know....

 

[DukeOBass]

Could be that old culprit fill. I hope not. I WILL check it out again. It could just be that I had to clean off the surface stuff before hearing the deeper targets.

 

[coolhandluke]

I hate Fill.

This Sunday I dug over 9" through 2" of dirt, 4" of gravel, then several inches of mixed sand. I pulled out half a broken coffe cup, a bone that looked like a tooth from a baby mamoth, a couple rocks, a platic toy thingy, and oh yeah, a 1975 copper penny.

 

[DukeOBass]

Now that's persistence!!! You are a true Metal Detectorist!