Hi everyone, my first post here.
I've been away from detecting since 1981 and recently borrowed a detector to hunt a town hall built in the 1860s.
Hunted last weekend, there were good signals everywhere. I dug 126 pennies with 95% dating from 1962-1974 (1-4" deep) - was tired of digging them, 11 clad dimes - all 1970s-80s (1-3" deep), 8 clad quarters (all laying on the surface in the same area), 7 bottle caps (1-3" deep), 2 pull tabs (surface), 1 big ball of foil (4" deep), various pieces of trash, and one old brass key (4" deep). My question(s) - why all the pennies and more importantly - where are the old coins? Not one single old coin!
I have photos of the building and surrounding grounds taken in the 1890s and nothing has changed but a few trees. The building, sidwalks, ball fields, streets are exactly the same. Since most of the pennies were 1962-74 and looked unworn and like they'd been in the ground since new, I would think that they were dropped at that time. If someone hunted the place out back in the day they would have found them? I didn't think many people had detectors before the 60s? This area was very wealthy in the 1800s and there must be something old in the ground. Ideas on how to get it?
Jim
I've been away from detecting since 1981 and recently borrowed a detector to hunt a town hall built in the 1860s.
Hunted last weekend, there were good signals everywhere. I dug 126 pennies with 95% dating from 1962-1974 (1-4" deep) - was tired of digging them, 11 clad dimes - all 1970s-80s (1-3" deep), 8 clad quarters (all laying on the surface in the same area), 7 bottle caps (1-3" deep), 2 pull tabs (surface), 1 big ball of foil (4" deep), various pieces of trash, and one old brass key (4" deep). My question(s) - why all the pennies and more importantly - where are the old coins? Not one single old coin!
I have photos of the building and surrounding grounds taken in the 1890s and nothing has changed but a few trees. The building, sidwalks, ball fields, streets are exactly the same. Since most of the pennies were 1962-74 and looked unworn and like they'd been in the ground since new, I would think that they were dropped at that time. If someone hunted the place out back in the day they would have found them? I didn't think many people had detectors before the 60s? This area was very wealthy in the 1800s and there must be something old in the ground. Ideas on how to get it?
Jim